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BLUE ORIGIN: Blue Origin successfully completed its 29th New Shepard flight and 14th payload mission today from Launch Site One in West Texas. The payloads experienced roughly two minutes of lunar gravity forces. The New Shepard crew capsule used its reaction control system to spin up to approximately 11 revolutions...

PUGET SOUND BUSINESS JOURNAL: McKinstry is the new owner of an industrial property in Kent.The Seattle-based construction and energy-services company paid $14.55 million for the just over 6-acre property at 20213 84th Ave. S., according to the sales affidavit King County posted Wednesday. A 56-year-old warehouse measuring 80,400 gross square...

VIA SATELLITE: BlackSky Technology won a seven-year contract worth over $100 million with an unnamed, strategic international defense partner for real-time, space-based monitoring capabilities, the company announced Jan. 28.The deal includes current Gen-2 capabilities and allows the defense partner to access Gen-3 satellites, which offer 35 cm high-resolution imagery and...

ARS TECHNICA – "This is the very beginning of the Space Age."If one were to observe that I have written critically about Blue Origin over the last half-decade, they would not be wrong.The reality is that the space company founded by Jeff Bezos has underperformed. Its chief executive for most...

Blue Origin’s New Glenn Reaches Orbit
Jan 16 2025BLUE ORIGIN – New Glenn safely reached its intended orbit during today's NG-1 mission, accomplishing the primary objective. “I’m incredibly proud New Glenn achieved orbit on its first attempt,” said Dave Limp, CEO, Blue Origin. “We knew landing our booster, So You’re Telling Me There’s a Chance, on the first...

Blue Origin Launches New Glenn Rocket to Orbit for the First Time, Marking a Milestone for Jeff Bezos
Jan 15 2025GEEKWIRE – For the first time ever, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has put a payload in orbit, using its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket.The two-stage rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 2:03 a.m. ET Thursday (11:03 p.m. PT tonight)...

STOKE SPACE – Stoke Space, the rocket company building the world’s first 100% reusable medium-lift rocket, announced today that it has raised $260 million in new Series C investment to drive continued growth and innovation. This investment more than doubles the company’s total funding, bringing it to $480 million.Click here...

PUGET SOUND BUSINESS JOURNAL – Bridge Industrial acquired two industrial properties in Kent for a total of $64.3 million, according to King County sales affidavits filed late last week. The seller was a limited liability company associated with Link Logistics, a Blackstone affiliate. The properties, Kent Valley DC II and...

SEATTLE TIMES – The Space Coast could be seeing another new rocket fly soon as the Federal Aviation Administration on Friday issued a launch license for Blue Origin’s New Glenn. An FAA statement said Jeff Bezos’ Kent-based rocket company had “met all safety, environmental and other licensing requirements” for its...

ARS TECHNICA – After a long day of stops and starts that stretched well into the evening, and on what appeared to be the company's fifth attempt Friday, Blue Origin successfully ignited the seven main engines on its massive New Glenn rocket. The test firing came as fog built over...

A Kent industrial park has sold for $43.6 million, according to a sales affidavit King County posted on Monday. The Dec. 11 deal was part of a $550 million recapitalization of a nine-property industrial portfolio totaling 2.1 million square feet across five western U.S. states. The property, West Valley Business...

The Boeing Co. landed an order from Turkish low-cost carrier Pegasus Airlines for up to 200 737 Max 10 aircraft, the companies announced Thursday.Click here to read the full article.

Ohana Real Estate Investors has acquired the Hyatt Regency Lake Washington, a 347-key full-service waterfront hotel in Renton, Washington, located near Seattle.Click here to read the full article.

Stoke Space Hotfires Rocket Engine on New Vertical Test Stand — a ‘Very Big Deal’ for Washington Startup
Dec 12 2024PowerLight Technologies announced it is working with United States Central Command (CENTCOM) and the DOD’s Operational Energy Innovation Directorate, to demonstrate delivery of wireless power beaming to a Group-2 Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) aloft at 5,000 feet altitude, allowing it to rapidly recharge in flight and to conduct its mission...

Blue Ring Pathfinder Payload Ready for Launch; Blue Origin’s New Glenn on Track for This Year
Dec 9 2024Blue Origin’s payload for New Glenn’s first mission, NG-1, is ready for launch this year. NG-1 will carry the company’s Blue Ring Pathfinder and mark the rocket’s first National Security Space Launch certification flight. The encapsulated payload will be integrated onto the launch vehicle following the hotfire. New Glenn will...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said he was “very optimistic” about President-elect Donald Trump’s return to office, saying that he thinks Trump is “calmer” and “more confident and more settled” this time around. In a rare and lengthy interview Wednesday at The New York Times’ DealBook Summit, Bezos discussed a variety...

Uncommon Thinkers: Stoke Space CEO Andy Lapsa Explores an Innovative Route to Rocket Reusability
Nov 26 2024KENT, Wash. — Like two of the world’s best-known billionaires, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, Stoke Space CEO Andy Lapsa is passionate about making spaceships as reusable as airplanes. Unlike Bezos or Musk, Lapsa isn’t a billionaire. Instead, he made his case to backers who have billions of dollars...

NASA plans to use cargo versions of Artemis lunar landers under development by Blue Origin and SpaceX to deliver a pressurized rover and surface habitat to the lunar surface in the early 2030s.Click here to read the full article.
Blue Origin Completes 28th Mission to Space
Nov 22 2024Today, Blue Origin successfully completed its ninth human spaceflight and the 28th flight for the New Shepard program. The astronaut crew included: Emily Calandrelli, Sharon Hagle, Marc Hagle, Austin Litteral, James (J.D.) Russell, and Henry (Hank) Wolfond. Sharon and Marc Hagle both flew for the second time. Including today’s crew,...
Blue Origin announced today its ninth human flight, NS-28, will lift off from Launch Site One in West Texas on Friday, November 22. The launch window opens at 9:30 AM CST / 15:30 UTC. The webcast on BlueOrigin.com will start at T-30 minutes. Click here to read the full article.

SEATTLE TIMES – At Stoke’s newly built headquarters in Kent, engineers and technicians are assembling the giant barrel-shaped sections of a rocket and two very different engines designed to make not just the booster but the upper stage of the spacecraft reusable.Click here to read the full article.
Blue Origin today announced a multi-launch agreement to deliver multiple next-generation Block 2 BlueBird satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO) on New Glenn. All launches will occur over a multi-year period from Blue Origin’s Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.Click here to read the full article.

Starfish Space has closed a new tranche of funding led by a major defense tech investor as it looks to launch three full-size satellite servicing and inspection spacecraft in 2026. The Washington-based startup’s Otter spacecraft is designed for two primary missions: extending the operational life of expensive satellites in geostationary...

Fresh off the successful New Shepard NS-27 flight, Blue Origin is making intense preparations for the first flight of its long-awaited New Glenn heavy-lift rocket. The company has rolled out New Glenn’s first stage, equipped with seven BE-4 engines, for a static test firing. This is part of an effort...