Tag: Space
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Leave Jeff Bezos in space? Way-out petitions attract more than 100,000 signatures
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, has a laugh during a 2020 trip to India. (Jeff Bezos via Twitter) Between an upsurge in antitrust talk and questions about worker turnover, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has plenty to worry about here on Earth. His plans to take a suborbital space ride next month on…
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SpaceX provides a ride to the space station for ‘kidney on a chip’ and new solar arrays
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifts off, carrying supplies and science experiments into space. (SpaceX via YouTube) SpaceX launched a Dragon cargo capsule to the International Space Station today with more than 7,300 pounds of supplies and science, including an experiment from the University of Washington that takes advantage of zero gravity to study how our…
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Senators spar over the idea of giving billions to Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin venture for lunar lander program
An artist’s conception shows the human landing system that’s being developed by Blue Origin and its industry partners in the foreground, and Blue Origin’s Blue Moon cargo lander in the far background. (Blue Origin Illustration) The tussle over NASA funding for lunar landing systems has touched down in the Senate — with one leading senator…
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While hosting “SNL,” Elon Musk acknowledges having Asperger’s … and riffs on Dogecoin
Elon Musk delivers his monologue as host of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.” (NBC Video) Elon Musk made his mark tonight on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” — not only as the richest host in the late-night comedy show’s 46-year run, but also as the first host to acknowledge on the program that he has Asperger Syndrome.…
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Imagine a world where high-speed internet blankets every corner of the globe, transforming the way people access health care, education and entertainment. That’s the promise of up-and-coming satellite broadband — an ambitious and controversial plan to connect far reaches of the planet. Related: How commercial space stations could become the final frontier for data and…
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Imagine a world where high-speed internet blankets every corner of the globe, transforming the way people access health care, education and entertainment. That’s the promise of up-and-coming satellite broadband — an ambitious and controversial plan to connect far reaches of the planet. Related: How commercial space stations could become the final frontier for data and…
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Imagine a world where high-speed internet blankets every corner of the globe, transforming the way people access health care, education and entertainment. That’s the promise of up-and-coming satellite broadband — an ambitious and controversial plan to connect far reaches of the planet. Related: How commercial space stations could become the final frontier for data and…
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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,”…
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Jeff Bezos’ role at Blue Origin hints at how his profile at Amazon is likely to change
Amazon’s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, inspects Blue Origin’s launch facility in West Texas before the first test flight of the New Shepard suborbital spacecraft in April 2015. (Blue Origin Photo) What will Amazon without Jeff Bezos as CEO look like? It could look a lot like Bezos’ biggest personal passion project — Blue Origin, which…
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Robert Winglee, 1958-2020: UW’s ‘Rocket Man’ launched thousands of space and science careers
Robert Winglee on July 17, 2019, at the opening of the “ANGLes Challenge,” marking the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. (Mark Stone/University of Washington Photo) The global aerospace community and students across the Northwest have lost a researcher, mentor and “Rocket Man” who inspired and guided thousands of young people toward careers…