Tag: commercial-space
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Economic report lays out strategies to boost Washington’s $1.8B space industry
Hardware is spread across an assembly area at Blue Origin’s production facility in Kent, Wash. A new report names Blue Origin as Puget Sound’s largest regional employer in the space industry. (Credit: Blue Origin) A newly published economic report estimates the space industry’s contribution to Washington state’s economy at $1.8 billion and 6,200 jobs in…
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Stratolaunch’s plane spotted from space
Stratolaunch’s giant airplane sits outside its hangar at California’s Mojave Air and Space Port in a picture captured on Sept. 22 by DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-1 satellite from an altitude of more than 300 miles. Click on the image for a larger version. (Satellite Image ©2018 DigitalGlobe, a Maxar Company) How big is the world’s biggest airplane?…
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SpaceX’s round-the-moon trip could have VR, ‘Space Bar’ and in-flight entertainment
An artist’s conception shows a violinist performing in zero-G during a voyage in SpaceX’s BFR spaceship. (SpaceX via Twitter) It’s been only a day since SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled the plan to send Yusaku Maezawa and roughly half a dozen artists around the moon, but folks are already nominating themselves (and others) for a…
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Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch Systems puts its brand on the world’s biggest airplane
Stratolaunch Systems’ giant plane now sports the company’s name. (Stratolaunch Photo via Twitter) The mammoth plane that Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch Systems is testing at California’s Mojave Air and Space Port now bears the name of the billionaire and his air-launch venture. In photos tweeted this week, Stratolaunch showed off the plane’s new livery —…
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Japanese billionaire reserves moon flight with SpaceX
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated with BFR design details. SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk (left) and Yusaku Maezawa, founder of the Japanese retail website Zozo, announce plans for a private lunar mission at SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now Promising to take a half-dozen or more artists with him on the journey, Japanese…
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British Earth-imaging satellites ride Indian rocket into orbit
An Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle lifted off at 1638 GMT (12:38 p.m. EDT) Sunday with the NovaSAR 1 and SSTL S1-4 satellites on-board. Credit: ISRO Two British-built reconnaissance satellites, one designed to test new radar imaging technology and another to collect high-resolution optical imagery, arrived in orbit Sunday after a successful liftoff aboard an…
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Japan’s Yusaku Maezawa revealed as first customer for SpaceX trip around the moon
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk strike a pose at SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif. (Yusaku Maezawa via Twitter) SpaceX CEO Elon Musk today introduced Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa as the first paying customer for a trip around the moon. “Finally I can tell you that ‘I choose to go to the…
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Live coverage: Two British satellites launch from India
Live coverage of the countdown and launch India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle with the British NovaSAR 1 and SSTL S1-4 Earth observation satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. ISRO’s live video stream begins at approximately 1600 GMT (12 p.m. EDT) and will be available on this page. If you appreciate what we…
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SpaceX promises details of “private passenger” moon flight Monday
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Artist’s concept of SpaceX’s planned interplanetary spaceship at the moon. Credit: SpaceX A year-and-a-half after announcing plans to launch two private citizens on a flight around the moon using the company’s Falcon Heavy rocket and Dragon capsule, SpaceX posted a tweet late Thursday announcing apparently revised plans to…
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SpaceX gets set to reveal its first customer for BFR flight around the moon and back
News Brief: A year and a half after saying it had two passengers signed up for a privately funded flight around the moon, SpaceX says it will reveal the first passenger’s identity on Monday. In a tweet, SpaceX said the mission would be “an important step toward enabling access for everyday people who dream of…