Space – Page 11 of 88

Star Trek’s original Mr. Spock beams down for vaccine-boosting billboard campaign

It’s been almost seven years since Leonard Nimoy, the actor who created the role of Mr. Spock on “Star Trek,”… Read More

Amazon teams up with Lockheed Martin and Cisco to put Alexa voice assistant on NASA’s moon ship

Alexa, when are we arriving at the moon? Putting Amazon’s AI-enabled voice assistant on a moon-bound spaceship may sound like… Read More

Relativity hires Microsoft’s Scott Van Vliet to boost its Factory Operating System for 3D-printed rockets

Relativity Space, the startup that was founded in Seattle and is now building 3D-printed rockets in Southern California, has brought… Read More

Year in Space: Jeff Bezos and his billionaire rivals finally usher in the age of commercial spaceflight

For 25 years, I’ve been recapping the top stories about space and looking forward to next year’s trends on the… Read More

Telescope’s launch makes Christmas merry for space fans, but the ride has just begun

The most expensive telescope in the known universe has begun its journey to a vantage point a million miles from… Read More

High cost, high risk, high hopes: There’s a lot riding on the $10B James Webb Space Telescope’s launch

The launch of NASA’s $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope from French Guiana could mark a triumph in a tale… Read More

Crypto ambassador says he won Blue Origin’s $28M auction and is buying five more tickets to space

The winner of June’s $28 million auction for a seat on Blue Origin’s suborbital spaceship revealed himself today — and… Read More

First Mode chief scientist Elizabeth Frank spans the spectrum from Earth’s depths to deep space

Lots of tech startups have a chief executive officer and a chief technology officer, and some have a chief operating… Read More

In a new video, Amazon’s Project Kuiper highlights satellite broadband for folks off the beaten track

Amazon’s Project Kuiper hasn’t yet launched a single satellite, but in a video released this week, it’s talking up what… Read More

Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy leads $65M funding round for Stoke Space’s reusable rockets

Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the multibillion-dollar clean-tech initiative created by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, is leading a $65 million funding round… Read More

RBC Signals teams up with Inmarsat to boost Internet of Things connectivity

Redmond-based RBC Signals has made a strategic agreement with one of the world’s biggest satellite operators, Inmarsat, to put more… Read More

Thanks to new satellites, BlackSky picks up the pace for updating space imagery

BlackSky says it has set a new standard for refreshing its satellite views of spots on Earth after adding six… Read More

Marking another first, Blue Origin sends six spacefliers on a single suborbital trip

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture guided another suborbital space trip into the record books today — a trip that… Read More

Michael Strahan and Jeff Bezos on Thursday Night Football with Blue Origin capsule mockup in background.

Blue Origin’s latest suborbital space shot explores the final frontier of merchandising

Jeff Bezos’ privately held Blue Origin space venture is starting to look more like the other company he founded: Amazon.… Read More

Microsoft Azure widens its space ecosystem through deals with Airbus and data partners

One year after Microsoft expanded its Azure cloud domain to the final frontier, the company is taking another giant leap… Read More

Blue Origin delays its next suborbital space trip because of worries about Texas winds

Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard’s daughter will have to wait a little longer to take a ride on the suborbital spaceship… Read More

Blue Origin’s team wins a $130M share of NASA funding for commercial space stations

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture and its partners have won a $130 million award to jump-start the design of… Read More

Kymeta antenna tested with OneWeb satellite service

Kymeta and OneWeb move ahead with flat panel terminal for satellite internet service

Kymeta Corp., the antenna venture backed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, has signed onto a joint development agreement with OneWeb… Read More

NASA begins DART mission to practice pushing away an asteroid, with an extra push from Aerojet

A space probe the size of a school bus is on its way to smash into an asteroid the size… Read More

Rocket Lab launches two more Earth observation satellites for BlackSky — and tracks a falling rocket

BlackSky’s Earth-watching constellation has grown by two satellites, thanks to Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle and Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc.’s logistical… Read More

Orbite’s plans for space training complex get a boost from famed French designer Philippe Starck

The French designer who created the look for Virgin Galactic, Spaceport America and Axiom Space’s orbital habitat has taken on… Read More

Jeff Bezos says he’s spending more on his Earth Fund than on Blue Origin space shots

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has been getting a lot of press lately, but the Amazon founder and chairman… Read More

BlackSky makes a deal to sell satellite imagery to NASA — and makes its first quarterly report

BlackSky Technology says it has secured a five-year, sole-source blanket purchase agreement with NASA for the use of high-revisit satellite… Read More

Tech founder who took space trip with William Shatner dies in N.J. plane crash

A month after taking a suborbital space trip alongside Star Trek actor William Shatner, medical-technology entrepreneur Glen de Vries has… Read More

Blue Origin practices with a dummy version of its New Glenn orbital rocket in Florida

It’ll be at least another year before Blue Origin’s orbital-class New Glenn rocket gets its first launch, but Jeff Bezos’… Read More

Astra Space joins broadband internet race with proposal to launch 13,000 satellites

Make room for yet another competitor in the market to provide broadband internet access from low Earth orbit: Astra Space,… Read More

Blue Origin loses lunar lander lawsuit; NASA says SpaceX work will resume ASAP

A federal judge today rejected Blue Origin’s challenge to a $2.9 billion contract that NASA awarded to SpaceX for building… Read More

Boeing finally wins the FCC’s go-ahead for broadband satellite constellation

The Federal Communications Commission has authorized Boeing to put 147 satellites in orbit for a broadband internet constellation, adding to… Read More

Amazon schedules first Kuiper satellite launches for 2022 using ABL’s RS1 rocket

Amazon plans to launch the first two prototype satellites for its Project Kuiper satellite broadband constellation by late 2022, using… Read More

Paleontologists trace the evolution of tusks to toothy Triassic creatures

Dental exams conducted on fossils from more than 200 million years ago suggest that the earliest true tusks were sported… Read More