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Air Force

Air Force awards $4.9M contract to Seattle-area autonomous construction startup AIM

AIM’s technology works with existing equipment and is designed for dangerous or hard-to-reach places, including areas where equipment might be dropped in by parachute. Read More

Tech Vets: Christopher Pavel connects innovators to the military problems they can help solve

[Editor’s note: “Tech Vets: Profiles in Leadership and Innovation,” is a GeekWire series showcasing U.S. military veterans leading companies within the Pacific… Read More

Tech Vets: Angie Parker flew with an Air Force radar squadron — now she tracks startups and fellow vets

Editor’s note: “Tech Vets: Profiles in Leadership and Innovation,” is a GeekWire series showcasing U.S. military veterans leading companies within the Pacific… Read More

Air Force Research Lab agrees to support Stratolaunch’s first hypersonic flight test

Stratolaunch, the company created by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen more than a decade ago, says it’s won a contract from… Read More

X-37B space plane after landing

Boeing-built X-37B space plane lands after completing record 908-day orbital mission

The U.S. Space Force’s Boeing-built X-37B space plane today completed yet another record-setting mission, landing like an airplane at NASA’s… Read More

Air Force tech competition gives a lift to concepts for fast and furious ‘flying cars’

The U.S. Air Force’s tech incubator has given the go-ahead for 11 design concepts aimed at pushing the frontier for… Read More

Vulcan and Falcon

ULA and SpaceX win shares of future national security launches; Blue Origin loses out

The U.S. Space Force designated United Launch Alliance and SpaceX as the winners of a multibillion-dollar competition for national security… Read More

Air Force goes with BlackSky’s Spectra AI platform to track impact of COVID-19

BlackSky, a satellite data venture with offices in Seattle, says it’s won a U.S. Air Force contract to track the… Read More

X-37B space plane

Space Force will test solar power transmission during X-37B space plane’s next mystery flight

When a Boeing-built X-37B space plane is sent into orbit this month for the test program’s sixth flight, it will… Read More

Xplore spacecraft

Xplore wins award from Air Force to study navigational tools for moon missions

Seattle-based Xplore has won a $50,000 award from the Air Force to develop an architecture for keeping track of missions… Read More

Air Force strikes a deal with Boeing for fixing KC-46 tankers — and releases $882M in payments

The Air Force says it reached two agreements with Boeing today, aimed at making the final fixes in camera systems… Read More

Elon Musk

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk touts Starlink satellites and robotic fighter jets at Air Warfare Symposium

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took a rare deep dive into the workings of his company’s Starlink broadband satellite operation in… Read More

AFRL's Altitude facility

Air Force and Blue Origin team up on a new California test site for BE-7 lunar lander engine

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is partnering with the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop a new… Read More

Launch Complex 2

Rocket Lab’s Virginia launch pad opens for business, with Air Force as first customer

Rocket Lab today celebrated the opening of a launch complex on the Virginia coast, half a world away from its… Read More

New Glenn rocket

GAO sides with Blue Origin in dispute over Air Force’s multibillion-dollar launch contract process

The Government Accountability Office is agreeing with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture that the Air Force needs… Read More

X-37B space plane

Air Force’s mysterious X-37B space plane lands after spending 780 days in orbit

The U.S. Air Force’s X-37B space plane landed today after spending a record-setting 780 days in orbit testing hush-hush technologies… Read More

U.S. Space Command flag rollout

Trump ushers in U.S. Space Command, with Space Force (or Corps) in the works

President Donald Trump today hailed the revival of the U.S. Space Command to protect America’s technological assets on the final… Read More

New Glenn

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

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

BE-4 rocket engine test firing

Blue Origin, ULA and Northrop Grumman weigh in on multibillion-dollar SpaceX rocket lawsuit

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture and subsidiaries of United Launch Alliance and Northrop Grumman are intervening in… Read More

SpaceX files lawsuit against the federal government — but asks to keep the details under wraps

SpaceX today filed a lawsuit against the federal government, apparently protesting a contract bidding process — but asked the court… Read More

Satellite servicing

Olis Robotics wins $50K from Air Force to study options for satellite-servicing robots

Seattle-based Olis Robotics says it has received a $50,000 grant from the U.S. Air Force to lay out a plan… Read More

SpaceX launch

‘Big step for Israel’: SpaceX launches lunar lander along with high-flying satellites

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sent the Israeli-made Beresheet lunar lander on the first leg of its journey to the… Read More

Oval Office ceremony

President Trump signs directive to create new Space Force under the Air Force’s wing

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump today signed a space policy directive that lays out further steps in the creation of… Read More

Tanker handover ceremony

Surprise! Boeing hands Air Force the keys to not just one, but two KC-46 tanker jets

Boeing executives today added an extra twist to what was expected to be a cut-and-dried ceremony to hand over its… Read More

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch

After four delays, SpaceX launches Air Force’s first next-gen GPS III satellite

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket sent a next-generation GPS satellite into orbit today for the U.S. Air Force, marking a couple… Read More

Satellite arrangement

SpaceX wins $28.7M contract from Air Force for data connectivity research

SpaceX has won a $28.7 million fixed-price contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory for experiments in data connectivity involving… Read More

Vice President Mike Pence

Trump authorizes revival of U.S. Space Command, with Space Force on agenda

President Donald Trump today authorized the Pentagon to set up the U.S. Space Command as its own combatant command, in… Read More

Satellite visualization

Air Force sets up $100,000 VQ-Prize contest for space awareness visualization

The U.S. Air Force is looking for a few good apps to visualize satellites and other objects in Earth orbit —… Read More

Jeff Bezos and New Glenn

Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman and ULA win Air Force’s backing for future rockets

The U.S. Air Force says Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman and United Launch Alliance have won its go-ahead for the development… Read More

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