Space – Page 34 of 93

Aug 16, 2019, 9:17 PM

NASA puts Alabama center in charge of moon lander program, drawing Texans’ ire

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced today that Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama will take the lead role in developing… Read More

Aug 12, 2019, 6:04 PM

Blue Origin protests launch contract rules as it competes with SpaceX, ULA, Northrop Grumman

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is protesting the rules of the game for awarding future national security… Read More

Aug 6, 2019, 6:50 PM

Rocket Lab will try helicopter recovery of rocket booster – and CEO will eat his hat

Taking a page from SpaceX’s playbook, Rocket Lab’s CEO says the company will try to recover the first-stage booster of… Read More

Aug 6, 2019, 5:41 PM

A rush of rockets: SpaceX Falcon 9 puts Israel’s Amos-17 telecom satellite in orbit

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched a Boeing-built, Israeli telecommunications satellite called Amos-17 into geosynchronous transfer orbit today, adding to what’s… Read More

Aug 6, 2019, 10:59 AM

Spaceflight gets first crack at India’s new SSLV rocket – and puts up a ‘sold out’ sign

Seattle-based Spaceflight says it’s purchased the first commercial launch of India’s next-generation Small Satellite Launch Vehicle, or SSLV, and has… Read More

Aug 5, 2019, 8:35 PM

Tethers Unlimited joins forces with TriSept to test system for reducing orbital debris

Bothell, Wash.-based Tethers Unlimited will have its technology for deorbiting space debris put to its most ambitious test next year,… Read More

Aug 5, 2019, 1:25 PM

Good news, bad news for Spaceflight: Satellite rideshare market is heating up

Seattle-based Spaceflight has made a name for itself by putting together bunches of small satellites for launch on someone else’s… Read More

Aug 2, 2019, 9:28 PM

Jeff Bezos touts a full-power firing of Blue Origin’s next-generation BE-4 rocket engine

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos is showing off a picture of his Blue Origin space venture’s BE-4 rocket engine going full… Read More

Jul 31, 2019, 7:19 PM

TESS probe helps scientists find potentially habitable planet, 31 light-years away

Astronomers are sharing a flood of findings from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, including the detection of a… Read More

Jul 31, 2019, 3:49 PM

Planetary Society hails ‘mission success’ after LightSail 2 solar sail raises its orbit

It may be “mission accomplished” for the Planetary Society’s solar sail experiment, but its privately funded LightSail 2 mission is… Read More

Jul 30, 2019, 2:41 PM

Blue Origin gets in on three partnerships with NASA to boost missions to the moon

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ space venture, Blue Origin, has been selected to participate in three partnerships with NASA to advance… Read More

Jul 29, 2019, 4:57 PM

First Mode celebrates first steps in space exploration – and looks ahead to the moon

One year after engineers from the Planetary Resources asteroid mining company peeled off to form their own employee-owned startup, known… Read More

Jul 25, 2019, 11:35 PM

One giant leap for preservation: Kent wins landmark status for Boeing’s moon buggies

King County now has three landmarks that are out of this world. Literally. Tonight, the King County Landmarks Commission unanimously… Read More

Jul 25, 2019, 3:10 PM

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches Dragon cargo capsule to slime the space station

SpaceX has launched the same robotic Dragon cargo capsule to the International Space Station for a third time, sending about… Read More

Jul 25, 2019, 12:57 PM

Kids re-enact moon landing in robot challenge at Univ. of Washington — and win trips to NASA sites

Middle and high school students from across Washington state competed in a robotics challenge last week at the University of… Read More

Jul 23, 2019, 8:07 PM

With 2024 in mind, NASA picks Northrop Grumman to build moon-orbiting habitat

NASA says it’s choosing Northrop Grumman to build the habitation module for its future moon-orbiting Gateway outpost, because it’s the… Read More

Jul 23, 2019, 5:56 PM

Blue Origin reportedly has just a few test flights to go before people take space trips

Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith has told Axios that just a few test flights remain before the space venture founded… Read More

Jul 23, 2019, 4:50 PM

LightSail 2 unfurls in orbit, marking the climax of solar sail experiment

The nonprofit Planetary Society says its LightSail 2 experiment spread out its solar sails today, nearly a month after it… Read More

Jul 22, 2019, 10:59 AM

India sends Chandrayaan 2 probe toward the moon’s south pole for historic landing

India began a slow but steady space odyssey to the moon’s south polar region today with the launch of its… Read More

Jul 20, 2019, 10:58 AM

Apollo 11 moon landing’s 50th anniversary brings tributes, questions … and liftoff!

Fifty years after Apollo 11’s moonwalkers took one giant leap for humanity, luminaries including President Donald Trump and Amazon CEO… Read More

Jul 19, 2019, 12:00 PM

They choose to avoid the moon: Anti-space event in Seattle urges Bezos and others to focus on Earth

Daniel Smith is over the moon. As in, he’s kind of done hearing about it and the hype surrounding Saturday’s… Read More

Jul 18, 2019, 11:01 PM

Space for Humanity sends out a global call for citizen astronauts with a cause

RENTON, Wash. — Space for Humanity is looking for more than a few good astronauts. The Colorado-based nonprofit group today… Read More

Jul 18, 2019, 9:04 PM

Blue Origin racks up a full six minutes of firing time on BE-7 moon lander engine

RENTON, Wash. — Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture says it has test-fired its BE-7 rocket engine for… Read More

Jul 18, 2019, 2:48 PM

Olis Robotics and Tethers Unlimited join forces on remote-controlled space robots

Two space tech companies that are headquartered in the Seattle area, Olis Robotics and Tethers Unlimited, are joining forces to… Read More

Jul 17, 2019, 11:58 PM

New space station ventures could boost manufacturing, medicine — and marketing

RENTON, Wash. — NASA’s plan to expand commercial ventures on the International Space Station is attracting lots of interest —… Read More

Jul 17, 2019, 1:00 PM

NASA’s target for the first launch of its SLS moon rocket shifts from 2020 to 2021

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told lawmakers today that the first launch of the heavy-lift Space Launch System was “definitely achievable… Read More

Jul 17, 2019, 4:00 AM

UbiquitiLink wins $5.2M boost for satellite service that works with standard phones

Virginia-based UbiquitiLink says it has raised another $5.2 million in seed funding for a network that aims to provide satellite… Read More

Jul 16, 2019, 10:16 PM

Government officials are reaching out to commercial ventures for space race revival

RENTON, Wash. — Fifty years after the landmark Apollo 11 mission blasted off for the climax of the U.S.-Soviet space… Read More

Jul 16, 2019, 8:51 AM

50 years after Apollo 11, unsung heroes of Mission Control ponder past and future of the final frontier

[Editor’s Note: This episode of the GeekWire Podcast is part of the Destination Moon podcrawl, organized by Seattle’s Museum of… Read More

Jul 10, 2019, 11:27 AM

Seattle-area electric aircraft maker Zunum Aero facing financial trouble after reported layoffs

Zunum Aero, a Bothell, Wash.-based startup building hybrid-electric planes backed by investors including Boeing and JetBlue, is facing financial trouble… Read More