High school team from Bellevue finishes second in International Rocketry Challenge A team of students from Newport High School in Bellevue, Wash., made a strong showing at the International Rocketry Challenge… Read More
Stoke Space stakes its claim in the launch industry’s rush to fully reusable rockets In just six months, Kent, Wash.-based Stoke Space Technologies has turned a blank stretch of ground in Moses Lake, Wash.,… Read More
Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship joins the pantheon of model rockets Rocket fans will soon be able to follow in Jeff Bezos’ footsteps when it comes to ownership of a suborbital… Read More
Stoke Space raises $9.1 million to create a new breed of reusable upper-stage rockets Stoke Space Technologies, the Renton, Wash.-based company founded by veterans of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture, has attracted $9.1… Read More
GeekWire Calendar Picks: Moon Landing the Musical; Space Weekend; Intro to Raspberry Pi; and more — The Apollo Program and moon landing is a historic event captured in a variety of media. Movies, television, and… Read More
Rocketeers from University of Washington take the prize at Spaceport America Cup If at first you don’t succeed … try, try, try again. That’s the formula that the University of Washington’s Society… Read More
Efforts to develop small-scale rockets are soaring, but only a few get off the ground News Brief: The latest “State of the Industry” report for small orbital-class launch vehicles tracks 101 reported efforts to create… Read More
Hey, kids: Put a rocket in space and win a million dollars in Base 11 Space Challenge News Brief: Students from colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada are being recruited for the Base 11 Space… Read More
Relativity Space lifts the curtain on its plan to make rockets with robotic 3-D printer Can a robotic 3-D printer spit out all the parts of a rocket without humans stepping in until the end?… Read More
SpaceX leads off its rocket doubleheader with Falcon 9 re-launch and re-landing For the second time ever, SpaceX has sent a telecommunications satellite into orbit on a previously flown Falcon 9 rocket –… Read More
Museum of Flight gets intact moon rocket engine to go with beat-up Apollo artifacts When historic rocket engine parts from the Apollo moon missions go on display in May in Seattle, museumgoers will be… Read More
Blue Origin, ULA and Aerojet win Air Force contracts for U.S.-made rocket engines Blue Origin, the rocket venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, is among the beneficiaries in a set of Air Force… Read More
Reserve a launch for your satellite online? Rocket Lab can make it so The CubeSat revolution has come to this: Now you can make an online reservation for a nanosatellite launch almost as easily as booking… Read More
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin completes key early testing of new hydrogen rocket engine Blue Origin, the commercial space venture founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, says it has completed acceptance testing of its… Read More
GeekWire Calendar Picks: Rocketry Convention, Seattle Tech Mentors, GottaCon, and more After several missed starts, the Deep Space Climate Observatory launched atop SpaceX’s Falcon 9 on Wednesday. Although the company decided to… Read More
Paul Allen procures V-2 rocket for aircraft museum Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is selling some of his abstract art, and buying a historic rocket. The eclectic Seattle billionaire… Read More
Valve ‘hacker extraordinaire’ builds hybrid rocket engine Ben Krasnow has created X-rays with a vacuum tube, combined avocados and high pressure nitrous oxide, and cooked up homemade… Read More
