Space – Page 53 of 93

Apr 29, 2018, 11:30 AM

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin venture sends its New Shepard spaceship to new heights

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture notched another record today when it sent its New Shepard suborbital spaceship… Read More

Apr 27, 2018, 3:08 PM

NASA is reworking its moon rover mission amid outcry from lunar advisory group

An influential group of advisers on lunar exploration says NASA is canceling its Resource Prospector mission to explore the moon’s… Read More

Apr 27, 2018, 7:29 AM

Jeff Bezos gets set for Sunday test launch of Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos says his Blue Origin space venture is targeting the next test flight of its New Shepard… Read More

Apr 26, 2018, 9:01 PM

Animated GIF shows ‘snow’ on Rosetta’s comet – and sends chills around the world

It’s been 19 months since the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko ended, but the probe’s pictures stirred… Read More

Apr 26, 2018, 10:49 AM

Europe’s Trace Gas Orbiter sends its first color picture of Mars – and it’s spectacular

The first color image to come from a camera aboard the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter in its Mars-mapping orbit shows… Read More

Apr 25, 2018, 3:54 PM

Gaia probe maps the comings and goings of galaxy’s stars – and scientists go gaga

The European Space Agency has released the world’s most exhaustive star catalog, pinpointing the positions of nearly 1.7 billion stars.… Read More

Apr 23, 2018, 3:25 PM

NASA’s new administrator, Jim Bridenstine, touts bipartisanship after divisive debate

WASHINGTON — Just hours after his resignation from the House took effect, Jim Bridenstine was sworn in today as NASA’s… Read More

Apr 19, 2018, 3:30 PM

Blue Origin CEO says next-gen BE-4 rocket engine meets technical requirements

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — For years, there’s been a big question surrounding the next-generation BE-4 rocket engine that’s being built by… Read More

Apr 19, 2018, 11:38 AM

Senate confirms Jim Bridenstine as NASA’s administrator after months of uncertainty

The Senate confirmed U.S. Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Okla., as NASA’s administrator today in a nail-biting vote along party lines. In… Read More

Apr 18, 2018, 4:37 PM

Funding round raises $214 million for SpaceX so far — and it’s far from finished

News Brief: Last week we learned that SpaceX is looking to raise more than $500 million in a new Series… Read More

Apr 18, 2018, 4:15 PM

DARPA Launch Challenge offers $10M top prize for rapid-turnaround orbital liftoffs

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Almost 15 years after a $10 million competition gave a boost to private-sector spaceflight, the Pentagon’s Defense… Read More

Apr 18, 2018, 4:10 PM

SpaceX launches NASA’s TESS spacecraft on mission to seek out alien planets

SpaceX has launched NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, kicking off a mission aimed at surveying nearly the entire sky… Read More

Apr 18, 2018, 12:22 PM

Sierra Nevada Corp. gears up to build a cargo spaceship – and a space station

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Sierra Nevada Corp. is showing off a prototype of its Dream Chaser space plane, but its focus… Read More

Apr 18, 2018, 5:00 AM

Bill Gates, Airbus and SoftBank invest in satellite video startup that wants to help us ‘see and understand the Earth live and unfiltered’

The latest spinout from Intellectual Ventures, EarthNow, says it’s coming out of stealth mode with backing from Microsoft co-founder Bill… Read More

Apr 17, 2018, 4:36 PM

TLDR: Steve Ballmer’s shareholder meeting for America, the world’s biggest plane, Jeff Bezos’ new social media persona

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

Apr 17, 2018, 12:53 PM

Acting NASA administrator’s parting words: Accept risk wisely, with ‘eyes wide open’

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — NASA should rethink its approach to the risks of spaceflight as it prepares for a new wave… Read More

Apr 17, 2018, 10:42 AM

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross lays out his plan to streamline space regulations

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross today pledged to make outer space more business-friendly as part of his drive… Read More

Apr 16, 2018, 10:32 PM

Orbital ATK christens its next-generation rocket: Say hello to OmegA with an ‘A’

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Orbital ATK’s entrant in the competition for national security launches has a new name: OmegA. The… Read More

Apr 16, 2018, 4:24 PM

Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch aims to put the world’s biggest plane in the air this summer

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch space company says it’s on track to conduct the first test flight… Read More

Apr 16, 2018, 2:04 PM

SpaceX and NASA delay launch of TESS planet hunter to check guidance analysis

NASA and SpaceX say they’ll take more time to launch the Transiting Exoplanet Survey System, or TESS, just to make… Read More

Apr 16, 2018, 1:36 PM

White House readies new system for space traffic management, VP Mike Pence says

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The Trump administration is getting set to sign off on a new set of procedures for… Read More

Apr 16, 2018, 10:39 AM

SNC and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin show off hardware at Colorado’s Space Symposium

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A year after Blue Origin put its New Shepard rocket booster on public display for the first… Read More

Apr 13, 2018, 7:45 AM

Breakthrough Discuss turns spotlight on search for life elsewhere in solar system

STANFORD, Calif. — Are there microbes falling in the snows of Enceladus? Could a drone fly to biological hot spots… Read More

Apr 12, 2018, 3:21 PM

Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg says that humans could get to Mars within a decade*

Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg says it’s possible that humans will set foot on Mars in the next decade, and he’s… Read More

Apr 12, 2018, 2:43 PM

Elon Musk’s SpaceX aims to raise $500M as it makes progress on its Big F’n Rocket

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is aiming to raise up to $507 million in a new funding round, according to documents filed… Read More

Apr 11, 2018, 5:22 PM

Going hypersonic: Boeing joins in $37.3M investment round for Reaction Engines

Boeing’s HorizonX venture investment arm is placing a big bet on hypersonic flight. Today it announced that it’s going in… Read More

Apr 10, 2018, 10:15 AM

NanoRacks lays out vision for turning rockets into space outposts, starting with Independence-1

Don’t call them commercial space stations, or gateways, or portals. NanoRacks is laying claim to a different moniker for its… Read More

Apr 9, 2018, 4:21 PM

TLDR: Congress releases Zuckerberg’s testimony, ?ear-cleaning headphones, ?Elon Musk shows off SpaceX tool

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

Apr 9, 2018, 1:45 PM

Report: Probe blames Zuma spy satellite’s loss on Northrop Grumman, not SpaceX

News Brief: Investigators have tentatively concluded that January’s loss of a U.S. spy satellite code-named Zuma was due to problems… Read More

Apr 8, 2018, 11:47 PM

What a tool! Elon Musk shows off what SpaceX will use to build BFR spaceship

To build a big frickin’ spaceship, you need a big frickin’ rack to put it on. And SpaceX has the… Read More