Tag: Florida
-
Florida space officials discuss satellite factory with ‘Project Kraken,’ but it’s not Project Kuiper
Amazon’s Project Kuiper has its headquarters in Redmond, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) An unnamed space company may have picked up a code name with Seattle connotations during negotiations for a satellite factory in Florida, but that doesn’t mean it’s associated with Amazon. Amazon says its Project Kuiper broadband satellite mega-constellation isn’t “Project Kraken,”…
-
Blue Origin provides a sneak peek at its shiny new mission control room in Florida
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture hasn’t yet completed its first New Glenn rocket, but it has completed a glittering control room in Florida for New Glenn’s missions to orbit. Blue Origin showed off the mission control room, filled with monitors and blue mood lighting, in a video posted to Twitter today. It’s…
-
Successful Soyuz launch deploys 34 satellites for OneWeb network
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated with confirmation of acquisition of signal from all 34 satellites. A Soyuz-2.1b rocket lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with 34 OneWeb broadband satellites on-board. Credit: Roscosmos BAIKONUR COSMODROME, Kazakhstan — A Russian Soyuz launcher fired into orbit from the remote steppe of Kazakhstan Thursday with 34 satellites built on Florida’s…
-
Photos: Soyuz rocket poised for launch with 34 OneWeb satellites
A Russian Soyuz-2.1b booster is standing at the Complex 31 launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for liftoff with 34 OneWeb broadband satellites early Friday, local time. The 15-story rocket was cocooned inside clamshell-like gantry arms as VIPs, reporters and photographers visited the pad late Thursday, hours before its scheduled liftoff at 2:42:41…
-
First satellites off OneWeb’s new Florida assembly line set for launch this week
A Soyuz-2.1b rocket is set for liftoff with 34 OneWeb satellites from the Complex 31 launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: Roscosmos The first 34 satellites manufactured on a new commercial spacecraft assembly line just outside the gates of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida are scheduled for liftoff on a Soyuz…
-
Soyuz rolls out to launch pad with OneWeb satellites
A Soyuz-2.1b booster loaded with 34 satellites for OneWeb’s global Internet network rolled out of its assembly building Monday at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and rode a rail car to its launch pad for final preflight checks before liftoff Thursday. The Soyuz rocket is set for liftoff at 2142 GMT (4:42 p.m. EST)…
-
SpaceX pausing some Starship work in Florida
SpaceX’s Starship Mk1 vehicle at Boca Chica, Texas. This Starship test article was damaged Credit: SpaceX SpaceX says it is temporarily halting some activity on the company’s next-generation Starship program in Florida, allowing teams to focus on building a new Starship test vehicle in Texas. But the company says it has not laid off any…
-
Firefly Aerospace gets a Florida launch site
An architectural rendering shows Firefly Aerospace’s future rocket production facility at Exploration Park on Florida’s Space Coast. (Firefly Aerospace Illustration) Firefly Aerospace, a Texas-based launch venture that was lifted out of bankruptcy, says it’s struck a deal with Space Florida to establish business operations at Cape Canaveral Spaceport. The terms of the newly executed agreement…
-
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin makes a deal to build rocket servicing center in Florida
An artist’s conception shows Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket booster landing on a recovery ship. (Blue Origin Illustration via YouTube) Blue Origin, the space venture created by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has struck a deal with Florida’s spaceport authority to build a $60 million rocket testing and refurbishment facility near Cape Canaveral. The facility would…
-
Jeff Bezos set to announce big news about Blue Origin’s Florida launch plans
Amazon’s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, inspects Blue Origin’s launch facility in West Texas before a test flight in April. (Credit: Blue Origin) Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is heading to Cape Canaveral next month to make a “significant announcement regarding the emerging commercial launch industry” — most likely about plans for his Blue Origin space venture to build…