Space – Page 51 of 93

Jun 5, 2018, 10:32 AM

NASA’s chief talks about handing over space station to commercial consortium

For months, the White House has been talking about transitioning the International Space Station to commercial control by 2025, and now… Read More

Jun 3, 2018, 10:01 PM

Night launch: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sends SES-12 telecom satellite into orbit

News Brief: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sent the SES-12 telecommunications satellite into orbit tonight in a no-drama night launch.… Read More

Jun 3, 2018, 9:53 AM

One trio comes home from the space station just as another gets set to launch

News Brief: The hatch to the International Space Station’s Rassvet module has a lot in common with a revolving door… Read More

Jun 1, 2018, 10:57 AM

Space Force? Space Corps? Space Guard? Experts study ways to patrol final frontier

Two months after President Donald Trump said the United States may create a new military branch to focus on national… Read More

May 31, 2018, 6:43 PM

The way we think of black holes just might be in for a radical change … again

After decades’ worth of mystery, it feels as if physicists are finally closing in on the nature of black holes,… Read More

May 31, 2018, 3:15 PM

Blue Origin gets in on NASA studies for resource utilization on moon and Mars

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is among 10 teams that will share about $10 million in NASA… Read More

May 31, 2018, 1:51 PM

SpaceX’s Elon Musk and Malala Yousafzai tweet cute over ClickHole’s Starman parody

More Bad Press For Elon: The Car Elon Musk Launched Into Orbit Has Fallen Back Down To Earth And Crushed… Read More

May 31, 2018, 9:38 AM

Science of ‘The Expanse’: TV show sticks to space realities (with one big exception)

LOS ANGELES — The sci-fi saga known as “The Expanse” has attracted a huge fan following in part because it… Read More

May 30, 2018, 4:35 PM

Tethers Unlimited delivers 3-D printer and recycler combo to NASA for space station

Tethers Unlimited Inc. says it’s delivered a combination 3-D printer and plastic recycler to NASA for testing on the International… Read More

May 29, 2018, 4:07 PM

TLDR: Starbucks stores close for racial bias training

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s tech news rundown show, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube,… Read More

May 29, 2018, 10:55 AM

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo fires up rocket for another step toward spaceflight

Virgin Galactic sent its VSS Unity space plane skyward for a second supersonic rocket-powered test flight today, bringing the company… Read More

May 29, 2018, 6:55 AM

Jeff Bezos: ‘We will have to leave this planet … and it’s going to make this planet better’

LOS ANGELES – Deep thinkers have been saying for generations that we have to get off this rock and head for the… Read More

GJ273 star system with radio transmission

May 27, 2018, 6:31 PM

How do we get our message across to the extraterrestrials? The answers are evolving

LOS ANGELES — Last year, scientists sent a binary-coded message telling the aliens what time it was. Next year, it’ll… Read More

May 26, 2018, 10:17 PM

Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin space venture go all in on moon settlements

LOS ANGELES — Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos says his Blue Origin space venture will work with NASA as well as the… Read More

May 26, 2018, 4:29 PM

SpaceX’s prototype internet satellites are good enough for gaming, Elon Musk says

It’s been three months since SpaceX launched the first prototype satellites for its Starlink broadband internet network, and there’s been… Read More

May 26, 2018, 1:05 PM

Astronaut Alan Bean, Apollo 12’s artistic moonwalker, dies at 86 after sudden illness

Artist-astronaut Alan Bean, the moonwalker who saw himself as different from the rest, died today at the age of 86… Read More

May 25, 2018, 11:50 PM

‘The Expanse’ is saved: Jeff Bezos says Amazon will pick up sci-fi TV saga, and the crowd goes wild

LOS ANGELES — I wanted to start out talking with Jeff Bezos tonight about his vision for settling outer space, but… Read More

May 25, 2018, 4:45 PM

Five ‘Martian’ miscues to fix in space flicks

LOS ANGELES — Planetary scientist Pascal Lee could give astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson a good run for his money when… Read More

May 24, 2018, 8:56 PM

SpaceX propulsion guru Tom Mueller looks ahead to Raptor rocket engines for Mars

LOS ANGELES — SpaceX’s success owes a lot to the tenacity of the company’s billionaire founder, Elon Musk, but some of… Read More

May 24, 2018, 1:46 PM

President Trump signs off on directive to deregulate commercial space ventures

President Donald Trump has signed his administration’s second space policy directive, focusing on streamlining licensing procedures and turning the Commerce… Read More

May 23, 2018, 6:40 PM

Planetary scientists suggest that Pluto was put together from a billion comets

Did Pluto form like its closer-in brethren in the solar system, or is it the result of an agglomeration of… Read More

May 23, 2018, 4:48 PM

Next-generation GOES-17 weather satellite encounters infrared imaging glitch in orbit

Two months after its launch, the main imaging instrument on a next-generation weather satellite is experiencing problems with its cooling… Read More

May 22, 2018, 4:20 PM

SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell sees satellites as bigger market than rockets

SpaceX is taking a commanding role in the rocket business — but Gwynne Shotwell, the company’s president and chief operating officer,… Read More

May 22, 2018, 2:00 PM

SpaceX launches gravity-mapping probes plus another five Iridium telecom satellites

A refurbished SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket sent two gravity-mapping satellites and five satellites for Iridium’s next-generation telecommunications network into orbit… Read More

May 21, 2018, 4:57 PM

Amazon reportedly talks about reviving ‘The Expanse’ after Syfy cancellation

Just days after the Syfy channel announced it was canceling “The Expanse,” sparking a fan campaign to save the space… Read More

May 21, 2018, 3:01 PM

Taking a page from Amazon playbook, Jeff Bezos says it’s ‘Day One’ for space industry

“Day One” isn’t just for Amazon anymore: Billionaire Jeff Bezos says that first-day feeling of being fired up about a… Read More

May 21, 2018, 10:53 AM

Zunum Aero strikes deal with JetSuite for debut of hybrid electric airplanes in 2022

Zunum Aero says its first hybrid-to-electric airplanes will wear the colors of JetSuite, a private aviation company that’s a partner… Read More

May 21, 2018, 2:08 AM

Orbital ATK sends Cygnus cargo ship to space station with science and a sextant

Update for 10 p.m. PT May 24: Astronauts used the International Space Station’s robotic arm to snag Orbital ATK’s robotic… Read More

May 20, 2018, 6:36 PM

Queqiao takes flight: China launches Chang’e-4 relay satellite to moon’s far side

News Brief: China today launched a satellite that will serve as the communications relay for a future probe on the… Read More

May 19, 2018, 10:22 AM

Small seeds on Cygnus cargo ship could lead to giant leap for farming in space

When Orbital ATK’s Antares rocket launches a robotic Cygnus cargo spaceship toward the International Space Station, as early as Monday,… Read More