12 years after her trip to space, Anousheh Ansari takes over as the CEO of XPRIZE In 2004, Iranian-American entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari helped fund the $10 million Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight. In 2006, she… Read More
Paul Allen’s passing leaves unfinished business on Stratolaunch’s space frontier Seattle billionaire philanthropist Paul Allen’s death comes just as his Stratolaunch space venture is counting down to the first flight… Read More
Paul Allen’s giant Stratolaunch plane gets closer to first flight with 80 mph taxi test The world’s biggest airplane, built by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch Systems, is one step closer to making its first… Read More
Boeing and SpaceX reschedule Starliner and Dragon space taxi flight tests for 2019 NASA says we’ll have to wait until 2019 to see the first orbital tests of the space taxis that are… Read More
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin makes a deal to build rocket servicing center in Florida Blue Origin, the space venture created by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has struck a deal with Florida’s spaceport authority to… Read More
NanoRacks names its space outpost team, including Stratolaunch and Olis Robotics It takes a village to raise an space outpost, and NanoRacks’ array of villagers includes Stratolaunch as well as Olis… Read More
Economic report lays out strategies to boost Washington’s $1.8B space industry A newly published economic report estimates the space industry’s contribution to Washington state’s economy at $1.8 billion and 6,200 jobs… Read More
Stratolaunch’s plane spotted from space How big is the world’s biggest airplane? So big that it shows up clearly in a black-and-white photo taken by… Read More
Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch Systems puts its brand on the world’s biggest airplane The mammoth plane that Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch Systems is testing at California’s Mojave Air and Space Port now… Read More
SpaceX’s round-the-moon trip could have VR, ‘Space Bar’ and in-flight entertainment It’s been only a day since SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled the plan to send Yusaku Maezawa and roughly half… Read More
Japan’s Yusaku Maezawa revealed as first customer for SpaceX trip around the moon SpaceX CEO Elon Musk today introduced Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa as the first paying customer for a trip around the… Read More
SpaceX gets set to reveal its first customer for BFR flight around the moon and back News Brief: A year and a half after saying it had two passengers signed up for a privately funded flight… Read More
Space Adventures is back in vogue – and aiming to go beyond orbital tourism More than 17 years after Space Adventures put its first millionaire client in orbit, and nearly nine years after getting… Read More
Commercial branding on spacecraft? Five key points in NASA’s evolving space vision Why can’t commercials be filmed on the International Space Station? How about astronaut endorsements of energy drinks or tennis shoes?… Read More
VP Mike Pence revs up NASA schedule for putting astronauts on station in lunar orbit During a pep talk to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas, Vice President Mike Pence today highlighted what he saw… Read More
Orrery.ai aims to turn streams of data into secret weapon for strategic investment Satellites, sensors, social media and purchasing data provide terabytes’ worth of information about how the global economy is working — and… Read More
Spaceport Colorado wins FAA license News Brief: Colorado’s Front Range Airport is getting a new name — the Colorado Air and Space Port — thanks to… Read More
NASA picks 13 companies to envision the future of orbital human spaceflight Thirteen companies, including Boeing and Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture, will be doing studies for NASA on… Read More
NASA names nine astronauts for SpaceX and Boeing flights to space station NASA unveiled the first nine astronauts for its commercial crew missions to the International Space Station today, including rookies as… Read More
NASA confirms new timetable for space taxi flights; SpaceX to fly crew next April NASA today laid out a newly stretched-out schedule for flying astronauts to the International Space Station from U.S. soil, with SpaceX’s… Read More
SpaceShipTwo rocket plane pushes the envelope in third supersonic test flight Virgin Galactic sent its SpaceShipTwo rocket plane, VSS Unity, to its highest-ever altitude today during its third powered test flight —… Read More
Engine test anomaly deals setback to Boeing’s plans for Starliner space taxi Boeing confirms that it experienced an anomaly last month during tests of the engines that would be used on its… Read More
Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship hits new heights in escape test flight As Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos watched, his Blue Origin space venture sent its reusable New Shepard spaceship to its highest-ever… Read More
Blue Origin counts down to high-altitude escape test of New Shepard spaceship Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, says it’ll push its New Shepard suborbital spaceship “to… Read More
$200,000 for a trip to space? Blue Origin says price hasn’t been seriously discussed Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ space venture, Blue Origin, is playing down reports that a suborbital space trip on its New… Read More
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule arrives in Florida to get set for uncrewed test flight After months of testing, a SpaceX Dragon capsule that’s designed to carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station… Read More
Here’s why space engineers come to Seattle … and why some of them leave A new employment study indicates that roughly 3,000 people are directly employed by Washington state’s space industry, and roughly half… Read More
Why SpaceX and Boeing can sell spots on commercial space taxis to private travelers RENTON, Wash. — When NASA’s Phil McAlister worked out the contracts with SpaceX and Boeing to ferry astronauts to and from… Read More
Amid departures, Planetary Resources is holding out hope for an asteroid mining comeback It’s been months since Planetary Resources had to scale back its asteroid aspirations because a fundraising campaign came up short —… Read More
Spaceflight launch services company adds Virgin Orbit and Cosmic Girl to its lineup Seattle-based Spaceflight has a new product to offer customers who want to get small satellites up and running: Virgin Orbit’s… Read More
