Blue Origin’s latest suborbital space shot explores the final frontier of merchandising
Former football star and future Blue Origin spaceflier Michael Strahan is given a football to take on his trip during an appearance on Thursday Night Football with…
Marking another first, Blue Origin sends six spacefliers on a single suborbital trip
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket ship lifts off from West Texas. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture guided another suborbital space trip into…
Thanks to new satellites, BlackSky picks up the pace for updating space imagery
BlackSky captured multiple satellite images of Fremantle Harbour in Perth, Australia, to document the comings and goings of maritime traffic. (BlackSky Images) BlackSky says it has set…
RBC Signals teams up with Inmarsat to boost Internet of Things connectivity
An artist’s conception shows Inmarsat’s Global Xpress network in action. (Inmarsat via YouTube) Redmond-based RBC Signals has made a strategic agreement with one of the world’s biggest…
Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy leads $65M funding round for Stoke Space’s reusable rockets
Stoke Space puts its “three-pack” of thrust chambers through a hot-fire test. (Stoke Space Photo) Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the multibillion-dollar clean-tech initiative created by Microsoft co-founder Bill…
In a new video, Amazon’s Project Kuiper highlights satellite broadband for folks off the beaten track
Rajeev Badyal, VP of technology for Project Kuiper, speaks at the project’s Redmond facility. (Amazon via YouTube) Amazon’s Project Kuiper hasn’t yet launched a single satellite, but…
First Mode chief scientist Elizabeth Frank spans the spectrum from Earth’s depths to deep space
First Mode’s chief scientist, Elizabeth Frank, holds her favorite type of meteorite, a pallasite. (First Mode Photo) Lots of tech startups have a chief executive officer and a chief…
Crypto ambassador says he won Blue Origin’s $28M auction and is buying five more tickets to space
A digital rendering shows crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun in a spacesuit. (Justin Sun via Twitter) The winner of June’s $28 million auction for a seat on Blue…
High cost, high risk, high hopes: There’s a lot riding on the $10B James Webb Space Telescope’s launch
An Ariane 5 rocket is set to launch NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. (NASA Photo / Bill Ingalls) The launch of NASA’s $10 billion James Webb Space…
Telescope’s launch makes Christmas merry for space fans, but the ride has just begun
An Ariane 5 rocket lifts off with the James Webb Space Telescope. (ESA / CNES / Arianespace / JM Guillon) The most expensive telescope in the known…