Tag: Space
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Bayer partners with Planetary Resources to use space data to boost agriculture on Earth
The Planetary Resources sign at its headquarters in Redmond, Wash. German chemical and pharmaceutical giant Bayer today inked a memorandum of understanding with Planetary Resources as part of a deal to utilize satellite images collected by the Redmond-based space startup. Bayer will use information from the crop-specific images to develop agricultural products as part of its Digital…
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Top 5 things to do at Museum of Flight’s ‘Above and Beyond’ aerospace exhibit
London visitor Letu Yang helps his 4-year-old son, Rafael Yang, fly a custom-built jet through a “Full Throttle” simulation at the “Above and Beyond” exhibit at the Museum of Flight. (GeekWire photo by Alan Boyle) Most of the floor space at Seattle’s Museum of Flight is set aside to celebrate past glories of aerospace – but “Above…
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Video: ‘Star Trek’ shows its age – and agelessness – in EMP Museum’s 50th-anniversary exhibition
From several yards away, the bridge of the Starship Enterprise looks as if it was beamed down from the 23rd century into the “Star Trek: Exploring New Worlds” exhibition that opens Saturday at Seattle’s EMP Museum. But up close, you can tell it’s a 50-year-old movie prop, with rocker switches from the ’60s and bits of…
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Tech entrepreneur Naveen Jain fleshes out plans for BlueDot innovation factory
Entrepreneur Naveen Jain takes a zero-G airplane flight. (Credit: Naveen Jain / Zero Gravity Corp. via Twitter) Naveen Jain’s Moon Express is well along in its plans for a lunar mission next year, but the Seattle dot-com entrepreneur is also pursuing “moonshots” here on Earth through his BlueDot venture. BlueDot, based in Bellevue, Wash., came…
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Scientists say supernovae spread fallout when human ancestors walked the earth
An artist’s impression shows a supernova explosion in its prime. (Credit: Greg Stewart / SLAC) Researchers say they’ve found evidence of supernova explosions that spewed radioactive fallout over Earth during the age when humanity’s ancestors were evolving into upright-walking, big-brained creatures. One of two studies published in the journal Nature identifies deposits of radioactive iron-60 in deep-sea cores extracted…
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Washington state lawmakers pass tough new cybercrime bill — but that’s about it for tech
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Cybercrime became more of a crime. But proposed tax-breaks and gender-pay-equity bills died in committee. That’s how a few bills affecting the technology industry fared this year in the Washington Legislature. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee could still veto some bills prior to an April 2 deadline. (Credit: Office of the Governor) The main purpose…
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Alaska Airlines changes Anchorage-Honolulu flight to catch total solar eclipse
A passenger aboard a Lufthansa flight watches a solar eclipse out the window in March 2015. Passengers on an Alaska Airlines flight will have a similar opportunity on Tuesday. (Credit: Lufthansa via YouTube) Now, that’s service: Amateur astronomers persuaded Seattle-based Alaska Airlines to shift its departure time for Tuesday’s flight from Anchorage to Honolulu 25…
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Aliens and cheeseburgers: Astronaut answers questions from 5-year-olds about life in space
NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren answers questions from 5-year-olds as he stands inside a mockup of the International Space Station at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. (Credit: Wired / NASA) How do you know when to get up in space? And what do you eat? Kindergartners got answers to these and other burning questions about life on…
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J.J. Abrams’ ‘Moon Shot’ online documentary series focuses on Google Lunar X Prize
“Moon Shot” focuses on the rocketeers who are aiming for the moon. (Credit: GLXP) Film director/producer J.J. Abrams has been in on two of the biggest space-movie franchises ever, “Star Trek” and “Star Wars” – so maybe it shouldn’t be that surprising that he’s also in on “Moon Shot,” an online documentary series that tracks…
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HoloLens in space: NASA astronaut Scott Kelly dons Microsoft’s holographic headset
NASA’s Scott Kelly wearing a HoloLens headset on the International Space Station. (Via Microsoft) Microsoft this morning posted an initial picture of NASA astronaut Scott Kelly wearing the company’s HoloLens holographic headset on the International Space Station — part of a collaboration between the Redmond company and the U.S. space administration. The initiative, dubbed “Sidekick,” currently uses…