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CNBC - Three Vietnamese airlines announced deals Thursday to buy nearly 100 Boeing aircraft during a visit by the head of the country’s communist party, To Lam, to Washington, D.C.The deals include commitments from Vietnam Airlines, Sun PhuQuoc Airways and VietJet, marking one of the largest civil aviation contracts announced...Continue Reading

CONNECT CRE - Mortenson Development, Inc. has been selected to acquire and develop a 9.3-acre infill site in Kent, Washington, for the future Naden Avenue Manufacturing Campus, a modern, build-to-suit campus.Located in the Kent Valley, the campus is positioned to leverage one of the strongest industrial and manufacturing workforces in...Continue Reading

GEEKWIRE - Kent, Wash.-based Stoke Space Technologies says it has added another $350 million to its previously announced Series D financing round, bringing the amount raised in the round to $860 million.The fresh funding will go toward completing activation of the company’s Florida launch complex and expanding production capacity for...Continue Reading

GEEKWIRE - Tukwila, Wash.-based Starfish Space has been awarded a $54.5 million contract to produce another Otter satellite servicing spacecraft for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command.The deal, announced this week, builds on a $37.5 million Space Systems Command contract that was awarded in 2024 through the Department of...Continue Reading

ARS TECHNICA - Engineers at Blue Origin have been grappling with a seemingly eternal debate that involves the New Glenn rocket and the economics of flying it.The debate goes back at least 15 years, to the early discussions around the design of the heavy lift rocket. The first stage, of...Continue Reading

VIA SATELLITE - Blue Origin is now targeting the satellite constellation market, in one of the biggest and perhaps even most surprising story of the year, Blue Origin announced it was going to build TeraWave, a new constellation of optically linked satellites in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) and Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO),...Continue Reading

GOOGLE CLOUD - The Defense Industrial Base (DIB) and Federal System Integrator (FSI) communities operate under intense pressure. The mandate is clear: do more, faster, and with greater efficiency. As the engine of our national security and public sector services, these organizations must constantly innovate to maintain technological superiority. At...Continue Reading

VIA SATELLITE - Quindar is to supply secure automated mission control infrastructure to Starfish Space. Quindar will support operations for Starfish’s first three Otter missions. Starfish Space is developing the Otter satellite servicing vehicle and aims to provide life extension and end-of-life services for satellites in orbit. Quindar announced the...Continue Reading

SEATTLE TIMES - As Alaska Air continues its journey to expand into a global airline, it opened a new training facility Thursday where thousands of pilots, flight attendants and customer service agents will practice scenarios they might encounter on the job.The 660,000-square-foot facility — at the site of a former...Continue Reading

THE NEW YORK TIMES - The small, stubby New Shepard rocket from the rocket company started by Jeff Bezos has sent celebrities like William Shatner, Michael Strahan and Katy Perry to the edge of space.Now, it won’t be going anywhere for a while.The company, Blue Origin, announced on Friday that...Continue Reading

BLUE ORIGIN - Blue Origin today announced that New Glenn’s next mission, New Glenn-3 (NG-3), will carry AST SpaceMobile’s next-generation Block 2 BlueBird satellite to low Earth orbit. The launch is scheduled for no earlier than late February from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.AST SpaceMobile selected...Continue Reading

GEEKWIRE - Starfish Space has secured a $52.5 million contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency to dispose of military satellites at the end of their operational lives.The Tukwila, Wash.-based startup says it’s the first commercial deal ever struck to provide “deorbit-as-a-service,” or DaaS, for a satellite constellation...Continue Reading

PAYLOAD - The Space Force is tapping Starfish Space to take out its trash—in orbit.The military awarded the WA-based space startup a $52.5M contract to deorbit satellites in the SDA’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture constellation, when the sats reach their expiration date.Starfish says this marks the first contracted mission for...Continue Reading

REUTERS - Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin on Wednesday announced a plan to deploy 5,408 satellites in space for a communications network that will serve data centers, governments and businesses, jumping into a satellite constellation market dominated by Elon Musk's SpaceX.Deployment of satellites is planned to begin in the...Continue Reading

BLACKSKY - BlackSky Technology Inc. has signed multiple Gen-3 expansion contracts as early access pilot programs pivot into renewal deals. Accelerated investments in BlackSky’s tactically responsive commercial space-based intelligence capabilities across Americas, Asia and Europe align to the company’s land-and-expand strategy and follow global trends in defense spending.“BlackSky’s reliable high-cadence,...Continue Reading

VIA SATELLITE - BlackSky reports it has secured multiple expansion contracts for its Gen-3 satellite program from customers in the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Customers who worked with the company for early access pilot programs are turning into renewal deals, BlackSky said.The company did not name specific customers in the...Continue Reading

SPACE CONNECT - Blue Origin has announced the crew and launch date for its next New Shepard suborbital spaceflight, with Mission NS-38 scheduled to lift-off from West Texas on Thursday, 22 January.The launch will take place from Blue Origin’s Launch Site One, with the launch window opening at 8:30am CST...Continue Reading

NASA SPACE FLIGHT - With many missions on the manifest, the new year promises to be packed with space science. Two interplanetary spacecraft will arrive at their destinations as another Mars window opens in late 2026. Meanwhile, multiple space telescopes have their launch dates set for this year, and the...Continue Reading

PUGET SOUND BUSINESS JOURNAL - Seattle-area startups picked up their funding pace after a slow third quarter.According to a new report from Seattle-based financial data firm PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association, local startups secured $1.5 billion across 84 deals in the fourth quarter. That's up from a little...Continue Reading

Kent Valley's advanced manufacturing jobs continue to grow as companies prioritize locations with strong infrastructure, workforce availability, and supply chain access. The region delivers all three, making it increasingly attractive to site selectors and investors.Why do Manufacturing Clusters Outperform Singular Efforts?Co-located manufacturers and suppliers benefit from reduced lead times, lower...Continue Reading

BUSINESS WIRE - Boeing and Aviation Capital Group LLC (ACG), announced today that the lessor has finalized a new order for 50 737 MAX jets.The order is comprised of 25 737-8 and 25 737-10 variants scheduled to deliver in 2032 and 2033. With this new order, ACG increases its Boeing...Continue Reading

CNBC - Boeing logged net orders for 1,173 airplanes last year, marking the first time it outsold its European rival Airbus since 2018, the latest sign of Boeing’s recovery.Boeing handed over 63 jetliners to customers last month, bringing its annual delivery total to 600 aircraft, the most in seven years,...Continue Reading

AVIATION WEEK NETWORK - Low-cost launch startup Stoke Space is testing flight-capable Zenith engines in the buildup to the first orbital test flight of its Nova medium-lift, reusable, two-stage rocket targeted for later this year.…Note:  Stoke Space is headquartered in Kent.Click here to read the full article.Continue Reading

CNBC - Boeing is set to report this week that it delivered the most airplanes since 2018 last year after it stabilized its production, the clearest sign of a turnaround yet after years of safety crises and snowballing quality defects.Now, the aerospace giant is planning to ramp up production.“It’s a...Continue Reading