Tag: Aerospace
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Boeing’s new CEO sees Amazon and Facebook as competitors (and potential partners)
Boeing President and CEO Dennis Muilenburg addresses the SAE 2015 AeroTech Congress in Seattle on Tuesday. (Credit: Alan Boyle for GeekWire) Two months into his job as the Boeing Co.’s president and CEO, Dennis Muilenburg says Amazon and Facebook are emerging as competitors in the aerospace industry, due to their plans to develop drones for…
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Asteroids loom as the new Klondike for Seattle region’s space industry
An artist’s conception shows an asteroid-hunting telescope in Earth orbit. (Credit: NASA) Seattle could profit from the rush for resources in outer space much as it did during the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s: by selling goods and services to the fortune-seekers. At least that’s the vision laid out by entrepreneurs who are laying the…
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NewSpace conference coming to Seattle in 2016, showcasing advances in aerospace
A scene from the NewSpace conference in Silicon Valley. Seattle has been at the forefront of the aerospace industry since its birth, and the industry is now going through a renaissance with the arrival of companies such as SpaceX as well as homegrown upstarts like Jef Bezos-backed Blue Origin. Now, the region is getting a…
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Spaceflight Industries inks partnerships to improve its ‘cellphone network for space’
Spaceflight Industries announced a partnership today with Spire Global to expand its network of ground stations for its Spaceflight Networks “cellphone network for space.” The company also announced partnerships with Tethers Unlimited, BitBeam and Syrlinks to produce spacecraft radios. Spaceflight Networks’ expected ground station coverage map for 2017 Under the partnership with Spire, Spaceflight Networks will expand its ground…
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Spaceflight raises $19M to help launch micro-satellites through innovative ‘ride share’ program
Spaceflight’s SHERPA In-Space Tug offers a platform for hosting payloads for periods up to three years Spaceflight Industries, which helps the U.S. government, Planet Labs and other customers launch small satellites on larger space transportation vehicles, has snagged $19.2 million in financing, according to a SEC filing. Backers of the company — which is led…
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SpaceX launching Seattle-area office, recruiting squadrons of Microsoft engineers
Elon Musk Space Exploration Technologies, the Elon Musk-owned company better known as SpaceX, has been heavily recruiting engineers from Microsoft and other companies in the region as it gears up a new Seattle-area office. Recent status updates on LinkedIn show several former Microsoft engineers in the Seattle region joining SpaceX within the past month, and we’re hearing…
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Boeing wins $4.2B NASA contract to fly astronauts to Space Station; SpaceX lands $2.6B deal
Photo Credit: NASA Update: The bulk of the contract, $4.2 billion, was awarded to Boeing, with a $2.6 billion portion going to SpaceX. The contracts include certification and development and a maximum of six missions. NASA has scheduled a “major announcement” for 1 p.m. Pacific today to “regarding the return of human spaceflight launches to…
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High above Seattle, a tech meetup at zero gravity
Intrepid correspondent Mark Harris (center right) and his in-flight companions experience zero gravity in the air above Seattle last weekend. (Photos courtesy Zero Gravity Corporation. Al Powers, PowersImagery.com ) Is a zero-gravity meetup the newest trend in networking? While the rest of Seattle was watching the Patriots Jet Team perform at Seafair last Saturday, GeekWire…
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SpaceX and beyond: Latest from the new space race
The docking of SpaceX’s Dragon capsule with the International Space Station is a landmark for the private space industry, marking the first time a commercial spacecraft has flown a mission to the International Space Station, to deliver supplies. The SpaceX Falcon 9 carries the Dragon capsule to orbit, launching last week from Cape Canaveral. (Credit:…
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Pictures: Boeing drops its spaceship from 14,000 feet
Boeing’s CST-100 descends from the sky over Arizona. (Image credits: Boeing) Here’s another milestone in the commercial space race: Boeing says it completed a successful test yesterday of the parachute drop system for its CST-100 spacecraft, releasing the capsule from a helicopter at 14,000 feet. Boeing says the test, conducted over the Delamar Dry Lake…