NASA freezes SpaceX’s lunar lander cash due to protests from Blue Origin, Dynetics NASA says it’ll hold up on its payments to SpaceX for developing its Starship super-rocket as a lunar lander while… Read More
Elon Musk taunts Jeff Bezos over Blue Origin’s challenge to SpaceX’s contract for lunar lander The billionaire space battle just got kicked up a notch, with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture challenging… Read More
NASA awards $2.9B to SpaceX for Starship lunar lander; Blue Origin team is left out In a surprise move that was dictated by budget constraints, NASA is awarding $2.89 billion to SpaceX alone for the… Read More
Lasers on the moon? Nuclear rockets? NASA awards millions for way-out tech NASA’s latest crop of space technology grants will fund work on projects ranging from power-beaming lasers for lunar missions to… Read More
Next NASA chief will face big decisions on future moonshots (and Blue Origin’s role) President Joe Biden’s choice to lead NASA — former U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson — will be in the hot seat… Read More
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin will give NASA a spin in lunar gravity on suborbital flight With backing from NASA, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture will upgrade its New Shepard suborbital spaceship to… Read More
NASA names Perseverance rover landing site on Mars after Seattle sci-fi pioneer Octavia E. Butler Fifteen years after her death, Seattle science-fiction author Octavia E. Butler has joined an exclusive pantheon of space luminaries memorialized… Read More
NASA backs concepts for deep-drilling Mars rover and interstellar-object probe The latest crop of NASA-backed concepts for far-out space exploration includes “borebots” that could drill as far as a mile… Read More
NASA releases jaw-dropping video and audio from Mars, with an assist from AWS For the first time ever, NASA has captured video of a rover landing on the surface of Mars, plus audio… Read More
NASA’s Perseverance rover touches down to start years-long search for life on Mars NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down on Mars today and began a mission that’s meant to store up evidence of past… Read More
Blue Origin shows off an on-the-ground pathfinder version of its cargo lunar lander Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is testing a full-scale prototype of its cargo lunar lander, as part… Read More
Virgin Orbit sends 10 satellites to orbit, building on Paul Allen’s air-launch legacy Eight months after an unsuccessful first attempt, Virgin Orbit finally lived up to its name today and used an innovative… Read More
NASA adds Blue Origin’s upcoming New Glenn rocket to its launch services catalog Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture hasn’t yet finished its orbital-class New Glenn rocket, but today NASA put… Read More
Two Washington state women join ‘Artemis Team’ to go on NASA’s moon missions NASA today named the first 18 astronauts of its “Artemis Team” for missions to the moon — and two of… Read More
Blue Origin’s team turns in its moon landing proposal — and provides a sneak peek Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin venture and its partners in the space industry say they’ve given NASA their proposal… Read More
NASA agrees to purchase moon rocks for $1 in a deal that may involve Blue Origin NASA has selected four companies to collect material on the moon and store it up as the space agency’s property,… Read More
WiBotic joins Astrobotic’s team to build wireless charging system for moon rovers Seattle-based WiBotic says it’s working on a wireless charging system and energy management software for moon rovers, in partnership with… Read More
Blue Origin and Aerojet get in on NASA partnerships for new space technologies Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture and Aerojet Rocketdyne’s operation in Redmond, Wash., are among 17 companies that… Read More
Pentagon worries that satellite attacks could spark ‘mutually assured destruction’ In the years ahead, the long-running nightmare of the nuclear Cold War — mutually assured destruction — could return in… Read More
Fresh studies boost hopes for water on the moon — and for Jeff Bezos’ lunar vision Scientists have been turning up evidence for the existence of water on the moon for decades, but there’s always been… Read More
OSIRIS-REx probe touches down to grab bits of an asteroid, with assist from Aerojet NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe reached the climax of its seven-year round trip to deep space today and briefly touched down on… Read More
U.S. and seven other nations sign Artemis Accords to cooperate on moon missions Seven nations have signed up with the United States to participate in NASA’s Artemis effort to put astronauts on the… Read More
Blue Origin’s suborbital spaceship tests NASA’s moon landing system in Texas Blue Origin’s suborbital spaceship today conducted a robotic rehearsal for a future touchdown on the moon — and by all… Read More
After weeks of delay, Blue Origin sets up suborbital space mission to test NASA landing technology Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is now targeting Tuesday for the launch of its New Shepard suborbital… Read More
NASA touts lunar landing tech, and Blue Origin says there’ll be a flight test ‘soon’ Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong famously had to dodge a boulder-strewn crater just seconds before the first moon landing in… Read More
Blue Origin and partners pass key milestone for lunar lander design Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture says the aerospace team that it’s leading has completed its first “gated… Read More
First Mode wins $1.8M contract to build hardware for Psyche mission to asteroid Seattle-based First Mode has been awarded a $1.8 million subcontract from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to build flight hardware for… Read More
NASA astronauts splash down in SpaceX Dragon capsule, capping historic mission The first mission to send NASA astronauts into orbit on a commercially owned spaceship came back down to Earth today… Read More
Astronauts dodge hurricane as they head for homecoming in SpaceX Dragon capsule SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule pulled away from the International Space Station today to begin the homeward flight for NASA astronauts… Read More
Liftoff! NASA’s Perseverance rover begins odyssey to seek out traces of life on Mars With the fiery flash of a rocket launch, NASA’s Perseverance rover headed out today for what’s expected to be a… Read More
