Articles about Space Symposium

Amazon reserves up to 83 rocket launches for Project Kuiper broadband satellite constellation

Amazon has secured as many as 83 launches on three types of heavy-lift rockets to put more than 1,500 satellites… Read More

Microsoft and HPE put AI to the test on International Space Station … with gloves

“Check my spacewalking gloves, HAL.” The HAL 9000 computer that starred in “2001: A Space Odyssey” — and made such… Read More

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

DARPA Launch Challenge offers $10M top prize for rapid-turnaround orbital liftoffs

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Almost 15 years after a $10 million competition gave a boost to private-sector spaceflight, the Pentagon’s Defense… Read More

Sierra Nevada Corp. gears up to build a cargo spaceship – and a space station

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Sierra Nevada Corp. is showing off a prototype of its Dream Chaser space plane, but its focus… Read More

Acting NASA administrator’s parting words: Accept risk wisely, with ‘eyes wide open’

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — NASA should rethink its approach to the risks of spaceflight as it prepares for a new wave… Read More

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross lays out his plan to streamline space regulations

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross today pledged to make outer space more business-friendly as part of his drive… Read More

Orbital ATK christens its next-generation rocket: Say hello to OmegA with an ‘A’

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Orbital ATK’s entrant in the competition for national security launches has a new name: OmegA. The… Read More

White House readies new system for space traffic management, VP Mike Pence says

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The Trump administration is getting set to sign off on a new set of procedures for… Read More

SNC and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin show off hardware at Colorado’s Space Symposium

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A year after Blue Origin put its New Shepard rocket booster on public display for the first… Read More

Video: Blue Origin’s president points out upgrades on New Shepard spaceship

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship performed beautifully during five trips to space and back, but the… Read More

Alan Boyle in Blue Origin New Shepard seat

Video: Here’s what it’s like to sit inside Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The seats in Blue Origin’s suborbital spaceship are like a dentist’s chair that’s fully extended, with a big… Read More

Blue Origin New Shepard booster on crane

Space geeks get up-close look at Blue Origin’s rocket ship (and try out the seats)

Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship is continuing its farewell tour this week with a stopover at the Space Symposium… Read More

Interview: Jeff Bezos lays out Blue Origin’s space vision, from tourism to off-planet heavy industry

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Amazon’s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn’t focused on creating America’s biggest online retailer when he was… Read More

Jeff Bezos describes future space tours – and explains why he passed up a moon trip

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos had his chance to go into space in a Russian Soyuz… Read More