Space – Page 56 of 88

SpaceX seeks to trademark the name ‘Starlink’ for satellite broadband network

SpaceX has filed documents seeking to trademark the name “Starlink” for a satellite network that could provide global broadband access… Read More

Billionaire Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch space venture fires up its engines – all six of ’em

The world’s biggest airplane hit another milestone this week with the completion of the first phase of engine testing at… Read More

Northrop Grumman’s $7.8B deal to acquire Orbital ATK fuels aerospace consolidation

Northrop Grumman’s purchase of Orbital ATK for $7.8 billion will create a company involved in projects ranging from America’s next… Read More

SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule splashes down with a crew of mouse-tronauts

SpaceX’s robotic Dragon capsule was set loose from the International Space Station today and returned to Earth with more than… Read More

Spaceflight Industries teams with Europe’s Thales Alenia and Telespazio for satellites

Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries has forged a partnership with a French-Italian venture known as the Space Alliance, formed by Thales Alenia… Read More

Hugs at JPL mission control over Cassini

Fighting for science to the last: Cassini mission ends with smash-up at Saturn

Before its destruction, the bus-sized Cassini spacecraft fought Saturn’s buffeting atmosphere to send back scientific data for even longer than… Read More

Hours before its doom, NASA’s Cassini probe takes its parting shots at Saturn

The final pictures from NASA’s 13-year-long Cassini mission at Saturn are flowing in – and they’re good to the last drop.… Read More

Cassini orbiter’s team turns Saturn crash into cause for celebration – and for science

Twenty years after its launch to Saturn, NASA has set the Cassini orbiter on a course for certain destruction on… Read More

Six hours after launch, U.S.-Russian crew hooks up with International Space Station

Two NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut arrived at the International Space Station tonight for a five-month tour of duty… Read More

NASA tells SSL and Tethers Unlimited to move forward on orbital assembly system

California-based SSL, formerly known as Space Systems Loral, says it’ll receive continued funding from NASA for an on-orbit satellite assembly… Read More

Boeing to build seven ‘super-powered’ satellites for SES’ O3b broadband network

Boeing Satellite Systems International has signed up to build a fleet of seven satellites that will provide broadband internet connectivity… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture provides hints about Amazon’s HQ2 plan

What do Jeff Bezos and his lieutenants look for when they’re in an expansive mood? That’s a key question in… Read More

SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk shows off Dragon spaceship and the suit for the ride

We’ve already gotten our first peek at the spacesuit that astronauts will wear when they’re riding in SpaceX’s Crew Dragon… Read More

Astronomers give their official blessing to the first batch of place names on Pluto

Some of the best-known places on Pluto, including the heart-shaped Tombaugh Regio, have finally gone legit. But lots of other… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin makes its pitch to Congress for delivering cargo to the moon

Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, joined other companies today in laying out plans for… Read More

SpaceX launches Air Force’s secret X-37B space plane as Hurricane Irma nears

SpaceX launched the Air Force’s X-37B robotic space plane on its latest months-long, classified mission today – marking another first for… Read More

Project Blue tries again with crowdfunding campaign for planet-watching telescope

Project Blue is launching a second try to attract crowdfunding for a space telescope designed to study planets in the… Read More

International Space Station lab’s mission patch goes all in on a Star Wars theme

Factual and fictional worlds collide in the latest mission patch associated with the International Space Station’s role as a U.S.… Read More

Red vs. green: Solar flares could power northern lights above our smoky skies

The sun has been acting up this week, and normally that would produce auroral displays bright enough to see in… Read More

Why these scientists argue that we are turning Earth into an alien planet

A trio of scientists has just laid out a new classification scheme for planets that would put Earth into a… Read More

Voyager at 40: ‘The Search for Life in Space’ puts big question on the big screen

What better way to celebrate 40 years of NASA’s interplanetary Voyager mission than with an eye-filling movie that brings the… Read More

Space station trio returns to Earth: NASA’s Peggy Whitson racks up 665-day record

NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and two other spacefliers capped off a record-setting orbital mission today with their return from the… Read More

Trump’s choice for NASA chief, Rep. Jim Bridenstine, is likely to boost moonshots

The White House has confirmed long-running rumors that President Donald Trump’s pick for NASA administrator is U.S. Rep. Jim Bridenstine,… Read More

Hubble keeps hope alive for water on potentially habitable TRAPPIST-1 planets

Do some of the Earth-sized planets around a dwarf star called TRAPPIST-1, just 40 light-years away, have liquid water? Newly… Read More

Amazon targeted in class-action lawsuit claiming defective solar eclipse glasses

A South Carolina couple has filed a lawsuit against Amazon, claiming that they suffered eye damage even though they used… Read More

Alien-hunting Breakthrough Listen project tracks strange series of 15 radio bursts

Breakthrough Listen, a $100 million initiative aimed at stepping up the search for alien signals, says it’s picked up an… Read More

Sierra Nevada Corp.’s Dream Chaser space plane takes to the air for captive-carry test

Sierra Nevada Corp.’s prototype Dream Chaser space plane, also known as the “mini-space shuttle,” successfully went through its first in-the-air… Read More

Spaceflight’s BlackSky wins $16.4M Air Force contract for geospatial data platform

BlackSky, a division of Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries, has been awarded a two-year, $16.4 million cost-plus prime contract with the Air… Read More

Eclipse Journal: Too good to be true? Mystery of the plane and the corona solved

GeekWire reporters and correspondents are documenting the 2017 solar eclipse from the Pacific Northwest, including our home base in Seattle… Read More

Five ways to look back at this week’s total solar eclipse in a totally different light

This week’s total solar eclipse ranked among history’s most widely documented celestial events, thanks to streaming video and social media.… Read More