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Satellite

Full disk from GOES-16

America’s newest weather satellite sends glorious pictures of Earth (and the moon)

Two months after its launch, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s GOES-16 weather satellite is sending back its first images –… Read More

SpaceX gets ready to return to flight amid revelations about rocket finances

As SpaceX prepares for its first Falcon 9 rocket launch in five months, a new report about the company’s finances… Read More

Satellite constellation

OneWeb wins billion-dollar boost from SoftBank for internet satellite network

The OneWeb internet satellite venture says it has secured another $1.2 billion in investment, including a billion dollars from SoftBank… Read More

BlackSky platform shows Aleppo

Syrian crisis puts Spaceflight Industries’ BlackSky satellite data platform to the test

Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries is giving early adopters a preview of its online BlackSky satellite imagery platform, which blends overhead views of sites… Read More

Delta 4 launch

WGS-8 military satellite goes into orbit

An advanced satellite for battlefield communications, known as Wideband Global Satcom-8, rose into orbit tonight from Cape Canaveral Air Force… Read More

Karthik Govindhasamy

Planet opens office in Seattle area to work on data platform for satellite imagery

BELLEVUE, Wash. – Planet has landed … in the Seattle area. The upstart satellite imaging company formerly known as Planet Labs… Read More

DARPA CONFERS

DARPA group will promote best practices for using robots to make satellite repairs in space

Getting a satellite into orbit may be a challenging enough endeavor on its own, but the idea of repairing one… Read More

SpaceX and Space Needle

SpaceX files FCC application for internet access network with 4,425 satellites

SpaceX has laid out further details about a 4,425-satellite communications network that’s expected to provide global broadband internet access, with… Read More

Chinese mountain

Spaceflight Industries unveils BlackSky satellite’s first pictures of our planet

Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries is sharing some of the first pictures of Earth ever taken by its low-cost, high-resolution BlackSky Pathfinder-1… Read More

Atlas 5 launch for Worldview-4

WorldView-4 joins DigitalGlobe’s armada of satellites keeping watch on the planet

DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-4 satellite was sent into orbit today to capture high-resolution, multispectral imagery of Earth, almost two months after California’s wildfires… Read More

Asgardia satellite

Hail, Asgardia! Scientist plans to create nation in space, but details are up in the air

A Russian scientist and businessman today unveiled a social-media-savvy plan to create the first-ever nation in space, named Asgardia. But… Read More

SkySat satellites

Spaceflight signs up Google’s Terra Bella for satellite launch on SpaceX rocket

Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries says it’s made a deal with Terra Bella to have the Google subsidiary’s Earth-observing satellites launched on… Read More

Sentinel-2 image of Brisbane

Google Cloud offers a quadrillion bytes of Landsat and Sentinel-2 satellite views

How do you channel a flood of almost 5 million images into useful applications? Google Cloud is doing it with more… Read More

PSLV launch

India’s PSLV rocket sends BlackSky Global’s first Earth-watching Pathfinder satellite into orbit

A satellite that’s meant to blaze a trail for Seattle-based BlackSky Global’s Earth-imaging constellation rose into orbit tonight atop India’s four-stage PSLV-C35 rocket.… Read More

SpaceX blast scene

SpaceX says probe into Falcon 9 launch pad blast points to helium system leak

SpaceX says an investigation into the launch pad explosion that destroyed a Falcon 9 rocket and its satellite payload has… Read More

Planetary Resources' Arkyd 6 satellite

Why small satellites are big for startups

Small satellites, and the startups that make them, are becoming a big deal – and there’s a fresh flurry of industry… Read More

Techstars grad Kepler Communications raises $5M to launch mini satellites by 2017 and double its team

Kepler Communications, a Techstars Seattle graduate building telecom infrastructure for space, just secured $5 million in seed funding. New York venture… Read More

Satellite constellation

5G or not 5G? Boeing joins the battle over broadband satellite spectrum

The Boeing Co. is laying out plans to put more than 1,000 satellites into low Earth orbit to provide broadband… Read More

BlackSky satellite

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

SpaceX Redmond office

SpaceX speaks up for its Seattle satellite operation after months of low-key work

SpaceX has provided a rare update on its Seattle-centric plans to develop a multibillion-dollar Internet satellite network, saying that the… Read More

Planetary Resources’ asteroid miners focus on Earth observation with $21 million in new funding

REDMOND, Wash. – Planetary Resources was founded as an asteroid mining company, but a fresh infusion of $21.1 million in investment… Read More

Fort McMurray fires

Satellites reveal just how bad the wildfires are in Alberta’s oil-sand country

Canadian firefighters are still struggling to get a handle on wide-ranging wildfires in Alberta’s oil-sand country, and satellite images are… Read More

SpaceX Falcon on ship

Woohoo! SpaceX Falcon 9 booster makes nighttime landing at sea after launching JCSAT-14 satellite

SpaceX increased the degree of difficulty for tonight’s Falcon 9 rocket landing attempt at sea after launching a Japanese satellite… Read More

SpaceX Falcon 9 shutdown

Wayward boat gets blamed after SpaceX aborts Falcon 9 rocket liftoff at last second

A wayward boat and a load of liquid oxygen that got too warm forced SpaceX to abort what might have been… Read More

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket

SpaceX holds up on SES-9 satellite launch (and rocket landing) just before liftoff

For the second day in a row, SpaceX scrubbed the launch of the SES-9 telecommunications satellite as well as the… Read More

Sarah Parcak

Space archaeologist Sarah Parcak uses $1M TED Prize for crowdsourced quest

Space archaeologist Sarah Parcak says she’ll use this year’s $1 million TED Prize to create a game that gives players… Read More

Spaceflight SHERPA

Spaceflight’s online price list makes it easier for the feds to buy a launch

Federal agencies can now buy a satellite launch as easily as they buy pencils, thanks to a new arrangement with… Read More

Image: Kymeta antenna

Bill Gates and other investors give $62M boost to Kymeta satellite antenna venture

Kymeta Corp., the Redmond-based satellite antenna venture backed by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, says it has closed a $62 million… Read More

SpaceX and Space Needle

SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell signals go-slow approach for Seattle satellite plan

It’s been nine months since SpaceX’s billionaire founder, Elon Musk, announced plans to put up a constellation of 4,000 satellites to provide… Read More

Hurricane Patricia

Hurricane Patricia looks scary from space: Satellites track storm as it menaces Mexico

Even the International Space Station’s commander is worried about Hurricane Patricia, the strongest storm ever tracked by the National Hurricane… Read More

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