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Inside the world of aviation, space and defense news with the team behind Hype Aviation

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we go behind the scenes of Hype Aviation, a news aggregation site that you… Read More

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory partners with U.S. Space Force to train cybersecurity workers

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is collaborating with the U.S. Space Force to address the gap in cybersecurity professionals working… Read More

Hanks, but no Hanks: Actor turned down Jeff Bezos’ offer to ride Blue Origin rocket because of price tag

Tom Hanks has already been to space, sort of, as the star of 1995’s “Apollo 13.” He wasn’t going to… Read More

Seattle startup founder lobbies for seat on SpaceX craft that will take civilian crew to orbit

The founder of a bootstrapped Seattle startup who launched his company on Kickstarter is looking to hitch a ride to… Read More

Geek of the Week: BlackSky’s Andrew Steen finds a job within his orbit, keeping satellites ‘happy’

As a boy growing up in New Jersey, Andrew Steen had a range of hobbies and interests. He tried his… Read More

Tech’s extraordinary decade: What mattered most in the past 10 years of innovation

What were the top tech stories of the past decade? I’ve been discussing this topic with others recently on LinkedIn,… Read More

Year in pictures: Tech giants, startups, politics, soccer and more put focus on Seattle in 2019

It was another big, busy year in tech around the Seattle region, whether it involved the largest companies or the… Read More

Geek of the Week: Matthew Burchette is flying high as Museum of Flight’s new senior curator

Lots of interesting things have landed at The Museum of Flight over the years, Seattle’s home to a significant collection… Read More

Geek of the Week: Systima Technologies’ Taylor Banks is a ‘space addict’ hooked on what lies ahead

Taylor Banks is a self-confessed space addict. The CFO for Kirkland, Wash.-based Systima Technologies, Inc., manufacturers of systems and components… 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

Jeff Bezos

Amazon asks FCC for approval of Project Kuiper broadband satellite operation

Amazon is asking the Federal Communications Commission for approval of its Project Kuiper satellite broadband venture, and referring to potential… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Jobs in space; a critical look at Facebook; women executives and pay equity

Space has always fascinated us geeks. Thanks to Star Wars, Star Trek and countless other science fiction media, gazing at… Read More

UW researchers and Florida middle school students form unusual bond over cosmic kidney stones

Eight students from a low-income sugarcane town in South Florida spent months on a robotics project tackling kidney stones in… 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

Artist mixes real photographs and his vision of deep space to create an otherworldly Instagram feed

Imagine the images on social media when one of our modern space-travel pioneers — whether it’s Bezos or Musk or… Read More

12-pound lunar meteorite known as ‘The Moon Puzzle’ sells at auction for over $600K

A lunar meteorite discovered in a Northwest African desert in 2017 has sold at auction for $612,500, Boston-based RR Auction… Read More

This rocks: Luke Skywalker actor Mark Hamill thanks astronomer for naming an asteroid after him

Luke Skywalker was always looking to the stars. Stuck on a Tatooine farm with a dream of becoming a pilot,… Read More

Stephen Hawking

Get a sampler of Stephen Hawking’s ‘crazy smarts’ in his Seattle lecture on the theory of everything

This week’s passing of famed British physicist Stephen Hawking has sparked reflection around the globe — and perhaps, dreamily, even throughout… Read More

Jeff Bezos

Hungry for further exploration, Jeff Bezos eats iguana and discusses how to pay for space travel

Whatever critters live on the distant planets where Jeff Bezos eventually lands, here’s a word of advice: run! The Amazon… Read More

SpaceX Falcon 9 launch
Podcast

Week in Geek Podcast: Elon Musk’s race to Mars takes some unexpected turns

Depending on how you see it, Elon Musk is either an innovative genius building the future of mankind or a… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Meet Code.org’s president; The true story of a NASA scientist’s espionage; and more

Code.org has quickly become a name known around the world. The nonprofit’s goal is to make sure every student across… Read More

All along eclipse ‘zone of totality,’ small towns make big bets to cash in on total darkness

(I’ve just spent a month driving back and forth across America, with Rusty, as I do every summer, visiting small… Read More

Jeff Bezos

Prime shape: Buff Bezos flexes his muscles at elite Sun Valley getaway

Embed from Getty Images Maybe Amazon’s signature catchphrase is helping CEO Jeff Bezos stay motivated at the gym. It’s still… Read More

Google's Dot of Light

Google film ‘Dot of Light’ features pioneering female astronauts and dramatic views from space

Three female pioneers of space exploration are the subjects of a new short film from Google. And the experiences the… Read More

Bezos and Musk, underachievers? New space race includes a little trash talking

NEW ORLEANS – The evolution of the space race became very clear this week at the Collision media and technology… Read More

Lyrid meteor shower

Stay up and look up as annual Lyrid meteor shower is expected to put on a show this weekend

If you’re up late tonight and into Saturday morning, you might as well look up and try to catch a… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: SpaceFest 2016, Jet City Comic Show, SciTech Northwest, and more

With Elon Musk’s announcement that he plans to colonize Mars within a century, space has been on a lot of… Read More

Podcast

A million people on Mars? Explaining Elon Musk’s bold plan to colonize the Red Planet

Colonies on Mars are no longer restricted to the pages of sci-fi classics and the imagination of ambitious space geeks. These settlements… 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

NASA-funded UW researchers develop kidney-stone zapping technology

Imagine you are an astronaut, chosen for the first manned mission to Mars. After years of preparation, dozens of health… Read More

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