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The Space Development Agency (SDA) has selected LeoStella to support the Hybrid Acquisition for Proliferated Low-Earth Orbit (HALO) program.Click here to read the full article.
Blue Origin launched its second human-rated spacecraft on Wednesday (Oct. 23) after a more than two-week delay.Click here to read the full article.
A real estate investment trust this week purchased a 34-acre Tukwila property that houses an Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) warehouse for $81.5 million.Click here to read the full article.
Yet while many space soothsayers foresee chaos cascading across the heavens, the co-founder of the Seattle-based Starfish Space sees opportunity and accolades for the nimblest aerospace start-ups that can clear the celestial sphere of out-of-control satellites and runaway rockets that threaten the future.Click here to read the full article.
Portland-based Schnitzer Properties expanded its Seattle-area industrial portfolio with two separate purchases last month totaling nearly $59 million.Click here to see the full article.
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has donated a New Shepard rocket booster, plus a New Shepard capsule, to the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.The history-making hardware will go on display at the museum’s main building on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in renovated galleries due to open...
SpaceX in its fifth Starship test flight on Sunday returned the rocket's towering first stage booster back to its Texas launch pad for the first time using giant mechanical arms, achieving another novel engineering feat in the company's push to build a reusable moon and Mars vehicle.Click here to read...
As NASA plans to decommission the International Space Station (ISS) by the end of the decade, the next generation of orbital enterprise prepares to launch. Rocket-builder Blue Origin is aiming to have the first commercial space station—a solar-powered, “mixed-use business park” called Orbital Reef—operational by 2030.Click here to read the...
A New Blue Origin: CEO Dave Limp is Bringing Urgency and ‘Decisiveness’ to Jeff Bezos’ Space Company
Oct 5 2024Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp told CNBC that he only had one question for Jeff Bezos when he interviewed for the top job last year: Is the space company “a hobby or a business?”Click here to read the full article.
Today, Sound Transit and project partners celebrated the advent of heavy construction on the Kent Station Parking and Access Improvements project with a groundbreaking ceremony. When complete in 2027, the $62 million garage with 400-plus stalls will serve Sounder S Line passengers and users of Sound Transit Express and King...
Washington — Blue Origin successfully tested the upper stage of its first New Glenn rocket, but on a schedule that appears to vindicate a NASA decision not to use it for a mid-October launch of a Mars mission.Blue Origin said it test-fired the second stage of the New Glenn on...
The Washington State Department of Commerce (DOC) announced a $37 million investment into 46 clean energy projects throughout the state, including projects in Renton and Kent.Click here to read the full article.
Blue Origin plans to enter the final phase of its launch preparations for the New Glenn rocket on Monday by rolling the vehicle's second stage to Launch Complex 36 in Florida. Pending weather and other final considerations, a rollout could occur as early as Monday afternoon.This is the flight version...
Renton, Wash., Aug. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Radiant Logistics, Inc. (NYSE American: RLGT), a leading provider of technology-enabled global transportation and value added logistics solutions, today announced it has been named, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Radiant Global Logistics, Inc., as a global transportation provider for personnel and emergency disaster equipment...
Kent, Washington, August 28, 2024. Today, Stoke announced it has been selected for a $4.5M award by the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to prototype a solution that will enable responsive and precise point-to-point delivery of cargo to, through, and from space.Click here to read the full article.
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture today provided a brief dose of spaceflight to six people, including the first researcher to conduct his own experiment on a suborbital space trip with NASA support.The team for Blue Origin’s eighth crewed New Shepard mission included Rob Ferl, a professor and director of...
This is the third major industrial real estate transaction in Kent Valley so far this summer.Click here to read the full article (subscription required).
The sale is one of King County's highest-dollar industrial transactions so far this year.Click here to read the full article (subscription required).
As the global appetite for orbital launches continues to grow, the competition among new and old space companies to build bigger and better launch vehicles is firing up.It can be hard to keep up with this fast-paced yet incredibly complex and highly regulated industry — but everything you need to...
Rocket Lab’s Mars-Bound Twin Satellites – Blue and Gold – Hit the Road Ahead of Blue Origin Launch
Aug 30 2024Rocket Lab is gearing up for its first mission to another planet. In the fall, two of its spacecraft will hitch a ride onboard a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket to begin their 11-month trek to Mars.But before that happens, the twin spacecraft – named Blue and Gold – left...
The Department of Defense has put Kent, Wash.-based Blue Origin in the running for a share of up to $5.6 billion in national security space launch contracts, marking a first for Jeff Bezos’ space venture.The decision means Blue Origin’s orbital-class New Glenn rocket is now eligible to be selected for...
Tukwila, Wash.-based Starfish Space has signed a contract with Intelsat to provide on-orbit life extension services to a geostationary satellite beginning in 2026.It’s the first commercial contract for Starfish’s Otter satellite servicing spacecraft, which is currently under development. The deal follows up on Starfish’s $37.5 million contract with the U.S...
London, July 21 (Reuters) - Boeing (BA.N), opens new tab is seeing a significant improvement in production flow at its 737 MAX factory, its new commercial planes chief said on Sunday, as the U.S. planemaker battles to overcome a safety crisis.Speaking to reporters in London ahead of this week's Farnborough...
Farnborough, England — A space transportation startup with visions of high-speed point-to-point travel has started tests of the engine that will power their vehicle.Alex Tai, chairman of New Frontier Aerospace, announced during a panel discussion at the Farnborough International Airshow July 23 that the company performed the first test firing...