Articles about spaceflight – Page 3 of 3

Citing schedule slips, Spaceflight rebooks 89 satellites on SpaceX’s launch list

For more than a year, Seattle-based Spaceflight has been waiting to launch an array of 89 miniaturized satellites aboard a… Read More

104-satellite launch marks success for India (and Seattle’s Spaceflight Industries)

A record-setting flock of 104 satellites was successfully deployed into orbit overnight after the launch of an Indian rocket. Seattle-based… Read More

Google Lunar X Prize clears five teams for moon race and pays out $1 million

The organizers of the Google Lunar X Prize competition confirmed that five teams have been cleared to go after the… Read More

Syrian crisis puts Spaceflight Industries’ BlackSky satellite data platform to the test

Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries is giving early adopters a preview of its online BlackSky satellite imagery platform, which blends overhead views of sites… Read More

Germany’s PTScientists team up with Seattle’s Spaceflight for moon mission

A German team that’s going after the Google Lunar XPRIZE has secured a contract with Seattle-based Spaceflight to get its rover-carrying lander to the… Read More

Spaceflight Industries unveils BlackSky satellite’s first pictures of our planet

Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries is sharing some of the first pictures of Earth ever taken by its low-cost, high-resolution BlackSky Pathfinder-1… Read More

Spaceflight signs up Google’s Terra Bella for satellite launch on SpaceX rocket

Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries says it’s made a deal with Terra Bella to have the Google subsidiary’s Earth-observing satellites launched on… Read More

India’s PSLV rocket sends BlackSky Global’s first Earth-watching Pathfinder satellite into orbit

A satellite that’s meant to blaze a trail for Seattle-based BlackSky Global’s Earth-imaging constellation rose into orbit tonight atop India’s four-stage PSLV-C35 rocket.… Read More

Why small satellites are big for startups

Small satellites, and the startups that make them, are becoming a big deal – and there’s a fresh flurry of industry… Read More

Spaceflight raises $18 million and acquires OpenWhere to build satellite data portal

Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries is moving ahead on two fronts to build an online portal for satellite imagery: It has secured $18… Read More

Spaceflight’s online price list makes it easier for the feds to buy a launch

Federal agencies can now buy a satellite launch as easily as they buy pencils, thanks to a new arrangement with… Read More

Spaceflight offers a Cyber Monday deal: Satellite launches for $200,000 – that’s 33 percent off!

Here’s a Cyber Monday deal from Seattle-based Spaceflight for the space geek on your list: Purchase a satellite launch for one-third… Read More

Three reasons why Seattle’s big on space ventures, plus three frontiers to watch

What is it about Seattle that’s led some folks to call it the “Silicon Valley of space,” and how far… Read More

Israeli-based SpaceIL gets set for 2017 moon race with Spaceflight’s help

Israeli-based Team SpaceIL has signed up to launch a robotic lander to the moon on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket… Read More

Spaceflight buys a whole rocket from SpaceX for small satellites

In the first deal of its kind, Seattle-based Spaceflight says it’s buying a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that will be… Read More

Asteroids loom as the new Klondike for Seattle region’s space industry

Seattle could profit from the rush for resources in outer space much as it did during the Klondike Gold Rush of… Read More

Six small steps that could add up to giant leaps for spaceships

SPOKANE, Wash. — Is there a better way to power a spaceship? The basic tools of the rocket trade have been refined… Read More

Spaceflight Industries inks partnerships to improve its ‘cellphone network for space’

Spaceflight Industries announced a partnership today with Spire Global to expand its network of ground stations for its Spaceflight Networks “cellphone… Read More

This startup is launching 60 satellites in space to take real-time photos of Earth

A new Seattle-area startup wants to launch the largest satellite-imaging constellation ever deployed to help take pictures and videos of the Earth. BlackSky… Read More