First Mode forges $13.5M agreement with Anglo American to develop mining tech First Mode, a Seattle engineering firm founded by veterans of the Planetary Resources asteroid mining venture, says it’ll be working… Read More
First Mode joins Arizona State’s team to flesh out a plan for a marathon moon rover Seattle-based First Mode is working with Arizona State University and other partners to draw up a concept for a rover… Read More
Geek of the Week: Kathleen Hoza’s on- and off-Earth curiosity fuels science work at First Mode Kathleen Hoza had a curiosity about Curiosity. During an internship at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, working on the engineering operations… Read More
First Mode and Western Washington Univ. win NASA’s nod to make Mars geology tool Seattle’s First Mode team and Western Washington University say they’ve won a NASA contract to advance the technology for sizing up… Read More
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
Planetary Resources’ veteran engineers launch First Mode to target wider frontiers Planetary Resources was assimilated into the ConsenSys blockchain venture months ago, but a troop of engineers who used to work… Read More
