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Satellites

View of Melbourne, Australia

BlackSky shares time-lapse satellite views

Seattle-based BlackSky says the first two Earth-imaging satellites in its Global constellation are up and running, with the ability to… Read More

Musk and Bezos

Meow! Elon Musk calls Jeff Bezos a satellite copycat — and gets called out

The fur is flying in the broadband internet satellite race. It all started when we found out that Amazon was… Read More

Starlink satellites

SpaceX Starlink satellite veterans join Amazon’s competing Project Kuiper team

The leadership team for Amazon’s newly revealed broadband satellite constellation, code-named Project Kuiper, includes engineers who left SpaceX’s Starlink constellation… Read More

Relativity Terran 1 liftoff

Relativity joins Blue Origin to provide launches for Telesat’s broadband satellites

Relativity Space CEO Tim Ellis is a veteran of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture — and in… Read More

Jeff Bezos

Amazon lists more than 70 jobs in Bellevue — not Seattle — for Project Kuiper satellite operation

Boy, that escalated quickly: Just hours after GeekWire revealed that Amazon is planning a 3,236-satellite constellation to provide global broadband… Read More

Satellite view of North America at night

Amazon to offer broadband access from orbit with 3,236-satellite ‘Project Kuiper’ constellation

Amazon is joining the race to provide broadband internet access around the globe via thousands of satellites in low Earth… Read More

PSLV launch

India’s PSLV rocket puts 29 satellites in orbit, just days after anti-satellite test

India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle has put a military satellite and 28 secondary payloads into orbit, with Seattle-based Spaceflight and… Read More

SWIFT-SLX radio

Tethers Unlimited says two-way radio for small satellites has aced first orbital test

Tethers Unlimited weathered a wave of bad news over the winter, but now some good news has bloomed. The company,… Read More

OneWeb satellite

Investors commit another $1.25 billion to fund OneWeb’s internet satellite system

The international OneWeb consortium says it’s raised another $1.25 billion in funding for its internet satellite constellation, ensuring a ramp-up… Read More

SmartBus configuration

Kymeta and Airbus go on the road in Peru to demonstrate ‘SmartBus’ satellite links

Kymeta Corp., the Redmond, Wash.-based company backed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and other investors, has demonstrated the performance of… Read More

LeoStella's Mike Hettich

LeoStella satellite venture hands over CEO reins to aerospace executive Mike Hettich

TUKWILA, Wash. — Mike Hettich has finally completed his transition from chief learning officer to chief executive officer at LeoStella, the… Read More

OneWeb Arianespace Soyuz launch

OneWeb’s first satellites are launched into orbit for global internet constellation

A Russian-built, European-launched Soyuz rocket sent the first six satellites of OneWeb’s broadband data constellation into orbit today, kicking off… Read More

LeoStella satellite for BlackSky

Seattle-area Earth observation satellite factory LeoStella is open for business

When you hear the words “satellite factory,” LeoStella‘s operations in a nondescript office park south of Seattle probably isn’t the image… Read More

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