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Mars
Going, going … goniometer! First Mode delivers measuring gizmo for Mars mission
geekwire.com - Alan Boyle
The 3-foot-wide contraption that was built in First Mode’s Seattle workshop looks like something from a science-fiction movie, complete with spinning …
9 hours ago
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Space Tourism
Blue Origin suborbital test flight to space includes live rehearsal for future spacefliers
geekwire.com - Alan Boyle
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture flew a mannequin into space today during the 15th test flight for its New Shepard reusable …
1 day ago
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SpaceX
SpaceX leases new 125,000-square-foot complex in Seattle area as Starlink satellite operation grows
geekwire.com - Alan Boyle
SpaceX is leasing a 124,907-square-foot building complex that’s under construction in Redmond Ridge Business Park, east of Seattle, according to the …
Apr 7
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Falcon 9
SpaceX rocket debris recovered from Central Washington farm after fiery fall
geekwire.com - Alan Boyle
The atmospheric re-entry and breakup of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket upper stage created a fiery display in the skies above the Pacific Northwest a week …
Apr 3
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Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services is launching Space Accelerator for final-frontier startups
geekwire.com - Alan Boyle
Amazon Web Services is raising the curtain on AWS Space Accelerator, a four-week business support program that’s open to space startups seeking to …
Mar 30
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Space
Everett engineer and Arizona prof join billionaire’s crew for charity space trip
geekwire.com - Alan Boyle
The crew is set for a philanthropic space flight that’s being funded by a tech billionaire — and Christopher Sembroski, a Lockheed Martin engineer …
Mar 30
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Washington State
Expert skywatchers quickly solve Pacific Northwest’s meteor mystery
geekwire.com - Alan Boyle
Was it a meteor? A broken-up satellite? Maybe a UFO? Leave it to an astronomer to identify what caused the light show that was visible over a wide …
Mar 26
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Aerospace
Lasers on the moon? Nuclear rockets? NASA awards millions for way-out tech
geekwire.com - Alan Boyle
NASA’s latest crop of space technology grants will fund work on projects ranging from power-beaming lasers for lunar missions to high-temperature …
Mar 25
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Suez Canal
BlackSky’s latest satellite delivers first images (and AI insights) hours after launch
geekwire.com - Alan Boyle
That didn’t take long: BlackSky says the latest Earth observation satellite in its growing constellation delivered its first imagery less than a day …
Mar 25
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Planetary Habitability
Kymeta and Kepler team up to demonstrate satellite connectivity in Arctic deep freeze
geekwire.com - Alan Boyle
Kymeta Corp. — the hybrid connectivity venture that’s based in Redmond, Wash. — says it has demonstrated how its flat-panel antenna can hook up with …
Mar 23
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Aerospace
Atmosphere-monitoring satellites will ride on Spaceflight’s new breed of space tug
geekwire.com - Alan Boyle
Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc. says it’s won a contract to handle the launch logistics for a pair of NASA satellites that will study the factors …
Mar 22
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U.S. Politics
Next NASA chief will face big decisions on future moonshots (and Blue Origin’s role)
geekwire.com - Alan Boyle
President Joe Biden’s choice to lead NASA — former U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson — will be in the hot seat for a host of issues in human spaceflight that …
Mar 19
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Washington State
Florida space officials discuss satellite factory with ‘Project Kraken,’ but it’s not Project Kuiper
geekwire.com - Alan Boyle
An unnamed space company may have picked up a code name with Seattle connotations during negotiations for a satellite factory in Florida, but that …
Mar 18
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Critics take aim at SpaceX Starlink, Amazon Kuiper and other satellite constellations
geekwire.com - Alan Boyle
SpaceX, Amazon and OneWeb say their satellite mega-constellations will make broadband internet goodness available to billions of people around the …
Mar 11
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin will give NASA a spin in lunar gravity on suborbital flight
geekwire.com - Alan Boyle
With backing from NASA, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture will upgrade its New Shepard suborbital spaceship to provide lunar …
Mar 10
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SpaceX seeks FAA’s OK to extend Starlink satellite service to vehicles, ships, planes
geekwire.com - Alan Boyle
SpaceX is asking the Federal Communications Commission to authorize the operation of equipment extending the company’s Starlink satellite broadband …
Mar 9
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SpaceX seeks FCC’s OK to extend Starlink satellite service to vehicles, ships, planes
geekwire.com - Alan Boyle
SpaceX is asking the Federal Communications Commission to authorize the operation of equipment extending the company’s Starlink satellite broadband …
Mar 9
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NASA names Perseverance rover landing site on Mars after Seattle sci-fi pioneer Octavia E. Butler
geekwire.com - Alan Boyle
Fifteen years after her death, Seattle science-fiction author Octavia E. Butler has joined an exclusive pantheon of space luminaries memorialized on …
Mar 5
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SpaceX aims to expand its Starlink satellite operation to Texas (and create Starbase)
geekwire.com - Alan Boyle
SpaceX is planning to break ground on a “state-of-the-art manufacturing facility” in Austin, Texas, to support a satellite operation that got its …
Mar 3
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Boeing Insitu founders raise cash for Aerovel, which makes drones that take off and land vertically
geekwire.com - Bryan Corliss
An aerospace venture started by the founders of Boeing’s Insitu business unit just raised fresh cash as the company ramps up development of its …
Mar 2
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NASA backs concepts for deep-drilling Mars rover and interstellar-object probe
geekwire.com - Alan Boyle
The latest crop of NASA-backed concepts for far-out space exploration includes “borebots” that could drill as far as a mile beneath the Martian …
Feb 25
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After losing launch competition, Blue Origin delays New Glenn rocket’s first flight until late 2022
geekwire.com - Alan Boyle
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture says it’s targeting the fourth quarter of 2022 for the first flight of its orbital-class New …
Feb 25
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Stoke Space raises $9.1 million to create a new breed of reusable upper-stage rockets
geekwire.com - Alan Boyle
Stoke Space Technologies, the Renton, Wash.-based company founded by veterans of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture, has attracted $9.1 million in …
Feb 25
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NASA releases jaw-dropping video and audio from Mars, with an assist from AWS
geekwire.com - Alan Boyle
For the first time ever, NASA has captured video of a rover landing on the surface of Mars, plus audio of the wind whistling past it after the …
Feb 23
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NASA’s Perseverance rover touches down to start years-long search for life on Mars
geekwire.com - Alan Boyle
NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down on Mars today and began a mission that’s meant to store up evidence of past life on Mars, after a trip that …
Feb 18
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BlackSky satellite data venture makes $1.5B deal to go public in blank-check merger
geekwire.com - Alan Boyle
BlackSky Holdings, which is operating a growing fleet of Earth observation satellites as well as a cloud-based platform to analyze geospatial data, …
Feb 18
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How the pandemic is changing the protocol for NASA’s Mars landing — and how to watch it happen
geekwire.com - Alan Boyle
Veteran spacecraft engineer Chris Voorhees has witnessed six Mars landings in the course of his career, and he’s playing a role in the next one as …
Feb 17
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Axiom raises $130M for its space station — and adds Blue Origin alum to its board
geekwire.com - Alan Boyle
The longtime president of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture, Rob Meyerson, will be joining the board of directors for another …
Feb 16
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Microsoft and HPE team up to connect Azure cloud to International Space Station
geekwire.com - Alan Boyle
The sky’s not the limit for the cloud: Microsoft is partnering with Hewlett Packard Enterprise to bring Azure cloud computing to the International …
Feb 11