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NASA SPACE FLIGHT - Stoke Space completed proto-qualification of the first stage of its Nova rocket at its testing site in Moses Lake, Washington, in early June 2026. This milestone paves the way for the debut of the medium-lift Nova vehicle targeted for the end of 2026 from the historic...Continue Reading

GEEKWIRE - Space Northwest, a nonprofit association serving the Pacific Northwest’s space industry ecosystem, says it’s partnering with the Commercial Space Federation to launch a regional space business accelerator.The initiative will begin with an executive roundtable scheduled this summer, followed by a 12-week accelerator program due to begin in autumn...Continue Reading

PUGET SOUND BUSINESS JOURNAL - The industrial real estate arm of the world’s largest alternative asset management firm has proposed to redevelop an aging warehouse campus in Kent.  New York-based Link Logistics, a Blackstone Inc. subsidiary, intends to demolish four structures and replace them with two Class A speculative industrial...Continue Reading

THE SEATTLE TIMES - Boeing has hit another regulatory milestone in its effort to increase MAX production, paving the way to build 47 planes per month this summer, CEO Kelly Ortberg said Wednesday.Boeing recently completed its “capstone review” with the Federal Aviation Administration for the next rate increase, Ortberg said,...Continue Reading

REUTERS - China's commitment to buy 200 Boeing (BA.N), opens new tab jets during a recent visit by U.S. President Donald Trump will ‌be firmed up later this year and is only an "initial tranche" of a potentially far bigger deal, the planemaker's CEO Kelly Ortberg said.Investors had expressed disappointment...Continue Reading

NASA - During a Moon Base event Tuesday at NASA’s Headquarters in Washington, the agency announced new contracts for lunar rovers for crew to drive and uncrewed cargo landers bound for the Moon. NASA leaders also shared target launch timeframes and upcoming milestones for the first Moon Base infrastructure and...Continue Reading

BLOOMBERG - NASA picked Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, Firefly Aerospace and other space firms to send robotic landers, rovers and even drones to the moon as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to jumpstart a lunar base before the end of the decade.The US space agency awarded Lunar Outpost and...Continue Reading

GEEKWIRE - It’s a complicated moment in Washington, our home state, where the tech giants are strong, the satellites are abundant, and economic growth may no longer be above average.That was the feeling walking out of the Technology Alliance’s annual State of Technology luncheon Tuesday, where a deep dive on...Continue Reading

THE NEW YORK TIMES - President Trump and Boeing said on Friday that China had agreed to order 200 of the company’s planes, potentially lifting the fortunes of the American jet manufacturer in one of the world’s largest aviation markets. But Beijing officials were noncommittal.Aboard Air Force One on his...Continue Reading

SPACE.COM - Blue Origin continues putting its first lunar lander through its paces, testing the spacecraft at NASA centers across the nation to prepare it for its upcoming mission to the moon.That vehicle, named "Endurance," is Blue Origin's uncrewed Blue Moon MK1 test lander, which is designed to pave the...Continue Reading

NASA - Also known as Endurance, MK1 is an uncrewed cargo lander funded by Blue Origin as a commercial demonstration mission to advance Human Landing System capabilities in support of NASA’s Artemis program. The tests in Chamber A represent a public-private partnership model, with Blue Origin conducting work through a...Continue Reading

BOEING - Boeing and EgyptAir announced today the Egyptian national airline took delivery of its first 737 MAX. The 737-8 is the first of 18 airplanes leased from SMBC Aviation Capital to be delivered and represents the first 737 MAX in Egypt."The delivery of our first Boeing 737 MAX marks...Continue Reading

ARS TECHNICA - Earlier this week, Blue Origin posted a job opportunity for a “senior manager” to oversee tank fabrication for “Quattro,” and the description contained some intriguing information.“As part of a hardworking team of specialists, technicians, and engineers you will be the Senior Manager of Gen 2.0 Tank Fabrication,...Continue Reading

BLACKSKY - BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) won a nearly $30 million, one-year Assured contract from an international defense customer. The customer rapidly scaled from an initial six-figure Early Access program to the subscription deal in less than six months to meet an accelerated need for real time space-based tactical...Continue Reading

BOEING PR - Boeing [NYSE: BA] and SCAT Airlines today announced the carrier will expand its fleet and boost capacity with the fuel-efficient 737 MAX. The airline's previously unidentified order for five more 737-9 jets will support operational efficiency and expand longer-range single-aisle service, including more routes to Europe.SCAT also...Continue Reading

MSN - Blue Origin is getting closer and closer to having its lunar lander ready for an uncrewed mission to the surface of the moon.Billionaire Jeff Bezos' space technology company has been putting its Blue Moon spacecraft through its paces at testing facilities in both Texas and Florida. Ahead? a...Continue Reading

REUTERS - Copa Airlines, opens new tab tied up an agreement ​with Boeing, opens new tab and GE Aerospace to ‌purchase up to 60 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft for a list price of around $13.5 billion, ​the Panamanian carrier said on Monday.​The order, combined with 40 aircraft pending ⁠delivery from...Continue Reading

POWERLIGHT - PowerLight Technologies has reached a defining milestone in wireless power transmission: successfully delivering power via laser to a fielded military unmanned aerial system (UAS) while in flight—an industry first that moves power beaming from concept to operational reality.This achievement marks a critical step forward in the evolution of...Continue Reading

REUTERS - Boeing, opens new tab ​is hiring around 100 to 140 factory workers a week, the highest pace since 2024, as the U.S. ‌jetmaker replaces retirees and increases staffing to support higher production rates and new models, a union leader said.Boeing's unionized factory workers in the Pacific Northwest now...Continue Reading

SPACEFLIGHT NOW - Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket roared to life in a critical pre-launch demonstration of its main engines Thursday, less than an hour after the Sun crested over the horizon in Florida.The seven BE-4 engines fired for about 20 seconds, at 7:45 a.m. EDT (1145 UTC). Engineers will...Continue Reading

SPACENEWS - Several senators are asking appropriators to increase funding for NASA’s robotic Mars exploration efforts, fearing “severe and irreversible harm” if funding is not restored.In a letter this week to the leadership of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Commerce, Justice and Science (CJS) subcommittee, four senators requested that NASA’s Mars...Continue Reading

SPACEFLIGHT NOW - Days ahead of the planned third launch of a New Glenn rocket, Blue Origin was tapped by the U.S. Space Force to proceed towards developing its first launch site in California.The Space Force said it picked Blue Origin’s proposal to develop Space Launch Complex 14 (SLC-14) at...Continue Reading

PUGET SOUND BUSINESS JOURNAL - The competitive world of venture capital funding has grown even more fierce in recent years.It’s a byproduct of the intense age of artificial intelligence that is forcing startups to show parabolic growth early while investors, afraid of missing out on the next household name, make...Continue Reading