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Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross lays out his plan to streamline space regulations

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross today pledged to make outer space more business-friendly as part of his drive… Read More

Orbital ATK christens its next-generation rocket: Say hello to OmegA with an ‘A’

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Orbital ATK’s entrant in the competition for national security launches has a new name: OmegA. The… Read More

Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch aims to put the world’s biggest plane in the air this summer

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch space company says it’s on track to conduct the first test flight… Read More

SpaceX and NASA delay launch of TESS planet hunter to check guidance analysis

NASA and SpaceX say they’ll take more time to launch the Transiting Exoplanet Survey System, or TESS, just to make… Read More

White House readies new system for space traffic management, VP Mike Pence says

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The Trump administration is getting set to sign off on a new set of procedures for… Read More

SNC and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin show off hardware at Colorado’s Space Symposium

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A year after Blue Origin put its New Shepard rocket booster on public display for the first… Read More

Breakthrough Discuss turns spotlight on search for life elsewhere in solar system

STANFORD, Calif. — Are there microbes falling in the snows of Enceladus? Could a drone fly to biological hot spots… Read More

Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg says that humans could get to Mars within a decade*

Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg says it’s possible that humans will set foot on Mars in the next decade, and he’s… Read More

Elon Musk’s SpaceX aims to raise $500M as it makes progress on its Big F’n Rocket

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is aiming to raise up to $507 million in a new funding round, according to documents filed… Read More

Going hypersonic: Boeing joins in $37.3M investment round for Reaction Engines

Boeing’s HorizonX venture investment arm is placing a big bet on hypersonic flight. Today it announced that it’s going in… Read More

NanoRacks lays out vision for turning rockets into space outposts, starting with Independence-1

Don’t call them commercial space stations, or gateways, or portals. NanoRacks is laying claim to a different moniker for its… Read More

TLDR: Congress releases Zuckerberg’s testimony, ?ear-cleaning headphones, ?Elon Musk shows off SpaceX tool

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s daily news rundown, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube for every… Read More

Report: Probe blames Zuma spy satellite’s loss on Northrop Grumman, not SpaceX

News Brief: Investigators have tentatively concluded that January’s loss of a U.S. spy satellite code-named Zuma was due to problems… Read More

What a tool! Elon Musk shows off what SpaceX will use to build BFR spaceship

To build a big frickin’ spaceship, you need a big frickin’ rack to put it on. And SpaceX has the… Read More

Juno’s new gems focus on Jupiter’s Great Red Spot

There’s a fresh flowering of photos from NASA’s Juno orbiter, and this time they’re highlighting Jupiter’s most famous feature, the… Read More

Orion Span says it’ll put space hotel in orbit by 2022, but some details are up in the air

A startup called Orion Span says it’s planning to open a luxury hotel in orbit in 2022, but a lot… Read More

Want to sponsor a race to the moon? XPRIZE resurrects lunar landing challenge

Less than a week after the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize officially expired, its organizers say they’re relaunching it… Read More

SpaceShipTwo goes supersonic in first powered flight since fatal breakup in 2014

Virgin Galactic’s second SpaceShipTwo rocket plane flew a smooth, supersonic test flight today during its first rocket-powered outing since the… Read More

Dragon delivers cargo to space station

News Brief: Two days after its launch, SpaceX’s uncrewed Dragon cargo capsule was pulled in for its hookup to the… Read More

Deep Space Industries will equip BlackSky satellites with water-spraying thrusters

California-based Deep Space Industries says it has signed a contract to provide water-spraying thrusters for the BlackSky Earth observation satellites… Read More

SpaceX sends reused cargo ship to space station on reused Falcon 9 rocket … again

SpaceX sent nearly three tons of supplies, hardware and experiments to the International Space Station today, using a Falcon 9… Read More

China and U.S. say Tiangong-1 space lab plunged to a fiery doom over the Pacific

China’s Tiangong-1 space lab is no more. The 8.5-ton spacecraft re-entered the atmosphere at about 5:15 p.m. PT today (00:15… Read More

Bezos, Musk and more: Space billionaires take the spotlight in books and on TV

Space is hard: That used to be the excuse for explaining why sending people into space would always be something… Read More

Investors provide a $26.5M lift for World View stratospheric balloon venture

News Brief: Arizona-based World View says it has closed a $26.5 million Series C financing round, led by Accel with… Read More

No fooling: Skywatchers zero in on fiery fall of China’s Tiangong-1 space lab

After months of tracking China’s uncontrollable Tiangong-1 space lab, satellite watchers have narrowed down the time frame for its final,… Read More

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches fifth batch of Iridium NEXT telecom satellites

Another 10 next-generation Iridium telecommunications satellites were sent into orbit today aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Vandenberg… Read More

FCC approves SpaceX’s plan to provide broadband services with Starlink satellites

The Federal Communications Commission says it has approved SpaceX’s application to provide broadband internet access via thousands of Starlink… Read More

NASA delays Webb Space Telescope’s liftoff to 2020, says it may bust $8B budget

NASA is delaying the scheduled launch of its next flagship observatory, the $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope, by a… Read More

Relativity Space raises $35 million to boost 3-D printed rocket venture to new heights

Just a week after unveiling an agreement to use one of NASA’s rocket test complexes in Mississippi, Relativity Space is… Read More

Boeing HorizonX joins $15M funding round for Australia’s Myriota IoT satellite venture

Boeing’s HorizonX venture capital arm has made its first investment outside the U.S., as part of a $15 million Series… Read More