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NASA chief points to SpaceX crewed launch as a unifying moment for America

President Donald Trump plans to be on hand for Wednesday’s historic test launch of NASA astronauts in SpaceX’s Crew Dragon… Read More

NASA signs off on historic SpaceX crewed launch, leaving weather as final uncertainty

Mission managers have cleared the final paperwork for SpaceX’s first-ever crewed launch, aimed at sending two NASA astronauts to the… Read More

Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket misses going to space during its first air launch

A new breed of launch vehicle had a shaky first outing today when Virgin Orbit released its LauncherOne rocket from… Read More

NASA gives crucial thumbs-up to SpaceX’s historic crewed flight to space station

NASA today signed off on the first launch to send a crew into orbit from U.S. soil in nearly nine… Read More

Astronauts arrive in Florida to set new NASA traditions for crewed spaceflight

Two NASA astronauts landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida today to go through a set of pre-launch traditions… Read More

NASA names future WFIRST space telescope after Nancy Grace Roman, the ‘Mother of Hubble’

The telescope formerly known as WFIRST has a new name that honors Nancy Grace Roman, who served as NASA’s first… Read More

Days before landmark launch, NASA’s head of human spaceflight quits due to ‘mistake’

NASA’s top executive concentrating on human spaceflight, Doug Loverro, has resigned just a week before the scheduled start of a… Read More

New rules streamline procedures for licensing commercial space imaging systems

The Commerce Department has released a new set of rules aimed at making the procedure for licensing Earth-imaging satellite systems… Read More

Boeing-built X-37B space plane goes into orbit for shadowy Space Force test mission

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launched a Boeing-built X-37B space plane today on a semi-secret orbital mission under… Read More

NASA lays out the ‘Artemis Accords’ for international cooperation on moon trips

NASA today unveiled a list of 10 principles for a set of bilateral international agreements for participation in the moon… Read More

How BlackSky’s Spectra geospatial data platform uses AI to make sense of satellite images

How do you know when a region’s economy has recovered from the coronavirus pandemic? You could wait for the verdict… Read More

University of Washington wins NASA grant to create spacey contest for Artemis Student Challenges

NASA has awarded the University of Washington a $499,864 grant to develop a competition that calls on students to turn… Read More

Amazon reportedly registers interest in bankrupt OneWeb’s broadband satellite constellation assets

Amazon is among the players in a bankruptcy bidding game with the assets of the OneWeb satellite venture at stake,… Read More

Space Force will test solar power transmission during X-37B space plane’s next mystery flight

When a Boeing-built X-37B space plane is sent into orbit this month for the test program’s sixth flight, it will… Read More

Amergint acquires Tethers Unlimited to focus on satellite communications and space services

Colorado-based Amergint Technology Holdings says it has acquired Tethers Unlimited, a Bothell, Wash.-based space venture that’s working on a wide… Read More

Tethers Unlimited and Rocket Propulsion Systems win NASA grants for space tech

Two Seattle-area space ventures — Tethers Unlimited and Rocket Propulsion Systems — are among 124 businesses receiving $750,000 Phase II… Read More

A boon for Boeing? Virgin Galactic strikes deal with NASA to work on supersonic rocket travel

Virgin Galactic says it’s signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA to collaborate on the development of supersonic vehicles for… Read More

NASA confirms it’s working with Tom Cruise (and SpaceX?) to make a movie on space station

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has confirmed in a tweet that the space agency is working with movie star Tom Cruise… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is putting its own merch on sale … finally

Considering the fact that Blue Origin was founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, you’d think that the Seattle-area space venture… Read More

Report: Amazon joins other satellite constellation ventures in checking out bankrupt OneWeb’s assets

London’s Telegraph newspaper reports that Amazon is understood to be among the entities sifting through the assets of OneWeb, a… Read More

NASA and SpaceX get set to make history with landmark spaceflight during pandemic

Everything is in readiness for the first mission to send humans into orbit from U.S. soil since NASA retired the… Read More

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo makes its first gliding test flight over New Mexico

For the first time, Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane flew free in the skies over New Mexico’s Spaceport America, its… Read More

After buying Planetary Resources, ConsenSys sets its space ideas free — but will sell off the hardware

It’s been a year and a half since the assets of Planetary Resources, the asteroid mining venture headquartered in Redmond,… Read More

ICESat-2 laser-scanning satellite tracks how billions of tons of polar ice are lost

A satellite mission that bounces laser light off the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland has found that hundreds of… Read More

NASA puts Blue Origin, Dynetics and SpaceX on the list for lunar lander development program

NASA has selected teams led by Blue Origin, Dynetics and SpaceX to develop lunar landing systems capable of putting astronauts… Read More

Vaneeza Rupani with Ingenuity helicopter

NASA takes high-school student’s suggestion and gives Mars Helicopter a new name: Ingenuity

Picking up on a suggestion from an Alabama high-school junior, NASA has given an ingenious name to the first helicopter… Read More

SpaceX seeks regulatory changes as it gears up for Starlink broadband service

In a new regulatory filing, SpaceX says it plans to start offering commercial broadband internet service using its Starlink satellite… Read More

Far out! Xplore teams up with JPL and Aerospace Corp. on gravity-lens telescope

NASA has awarded a $2 million grant to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, The Aerospace Corp. — and Xplore, a Seattle-based… Read More

U.S. Navy officially releases UFO videos, years after they were unofficially leaked

The Defense Department has authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos, captured in 2004 and 2015, that purport to… Read More

Spaceflight signs up as anchor customer for Firefly Aerospace launch in 2021

Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc. has signed an agreement to secure most of the payload mass on a Firefly Aerospace rocket that’s due… Read More