NewSpace 2016 Conference in Seattle – GeekWire Special Coverage

Jeff Bezos provides a sneak peek at Blue Origin’s orbital rocket factory in Florida

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos today put a spotlight on the construction of a giant rocket production facility in Florida for his Blue… Read More

NASA picks Firmamentum to build a 3-D printer/recycler for use in space

Firmamentum, a division of Tethers Unlimited Inc. in Bothell, Wash., says it has won $750,000 in NASA funding to build… Read More

World View pivots from stratospheric tourism to ‘Stratollites’ lofted by balloons

World View Enterprises made a splash with its plans to send tourists up to the stratosphere, but now it has… Read More

Former NASA space station manager makes plans for commercial outpost

Former space station manager Mike Suffredini says he’s working on a plan to send up a commercial space module that could… Read More

Sierra Nevada Corp. moves ahead on NASA milestones for Dream Chaser spaceship

After years of postponements, Sierra Nevada Corp. is planning to deliver a rebuilt test prototype of its Dream Chaser mini-space… Read More

Planetary Resources’ asteroid miners go international, starting with Luxembourg

Planetary Resources says it will start ramping up an international asteroid-mining subsidiary in Luxembourg by the end of the year – and… Read More

International Space University will bring its executive course to Seattle this October

For almost 30 years, the International Space University has prepared fans of the final frontier for executive jobs at places like… Read More

NewSpace 2016: Why Seattle is emerging as a major hub for commercial space

The first NewSpace conference in Seattle opened Tuesday, a giant leap for the Seattle space scene. It is also the… Read More

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos wins Heinlein Prize for space commercialization at Blue Origin

Amazon’s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, has won the prestigious Heinlein Prize for his efforts to advance space commercialization at another… Read More

Spaceflight raises $18 million and acquires OpenWhere to build satellite data portal

Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries is moving ahead on two fronts to build an online portal for satellite imagery: It has secured $18… Read More

NewSpace 2016 makes Seattle the space industry’s center of the universe this week

There’s a neighborhood in Seattle that jokingly calls itself “the center of the universe,” but this week the title is… Read More

Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch lifts veil on world’s biggest plane — a giant bet on a new way to space

MOJAVE, Calif. – When you walk into the place where Seattle software billionaire Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch Systems is building the world’s biggest airplane,… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin live-streams its spaceship’s risky test flight

Something went wrong during today’s test flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship, and the world was able to watch how… Read More