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Amazon lists more than 70 jobs in Bellevue — not Seattle — for Project Kuiper satellite operation
Read more →: Amazon lists more than 70 jobs in Bellevue — not Seattle — for Project Kuiper satellite operationJeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, speaks at the Satellite 2017 conference in Washington,…
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Relativity joins Blue Origin to provide launches for Telesat’s broadband satellites
Read more →: Relativity joins Blue Origin to provide launches for Telesat’s broadband satellitesAn artist’s conception shows Relativity Space’s Terran 1 rocket lifting off from Launch Complex 16 at Cape Canaveral…
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GeekWire Calendar Picks: Celebrating the first man in space and exploring underwater artifacts
Read more →: GeekWire Calendar Picks: Celebrating the first man in space and exploring underwater artifacts(Museum of Flight Image) More than 60 years ago, the world got serious about exploring space. The global…
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Watch the Falcon Heavy fire up its engines
Read more →: Watch the Falcon Heavy fire up its enginesThe second Falcon Heavy fires its first stage engines as part of a routine pre-flight test for the…
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Amazon to offer broadband access from orbit with 3,236-satellite ‘Project Kuiper’ constellation
Read more →: Amazon to offer broadband access from orbit with 3,236-satellite ‘Project Kuiper’ constellationA composite photo from the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership satellite shows North America at night. Broadband satellite constellations…
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Soyuz launch deploys last of O3b’s first-generation broadband satellites
Read more →: Soyuz launch deploys last of O3b’s first-generation broadband satellitesA Soyuz ST-B rocket lifts off from the Guiana Space Center on Thursday. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique…
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Progress cargo freighter docks with space station after fast-track rendezvous
Read more →: Progress cargo freighter docks with space station after fast-track rendezvousEDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 1445 GMT (10:45 a.m. EDT) Thursday after a successful docking. A Soyuz-2.1a rocket lifts…
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Israel’s Beresheet lander brakes into lunar orbit
Read more →: Israel’s Beresheet lander brakes into lunar orbitThe Beresheet spacecraft’s six-minute deceleration burn Thursday steered the probe into orbit around the moon. Credit: SpaceIL Six…
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Live coverage: Four more O3b broadband launch aboard Soyuz rocket
Read more →: Live coverage: Four more O3b broadband launch aboard Soyuz rocketLive coverage of the countdown and launch of a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana with four O3b broadband…
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Uncrewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner space taxi delayed; crewed flight to be extended
Read more →: Uncrewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner space taxi delayed; crewed flight to be extendedTechnicians at the Boeing Space Environment Test Facility in El Segundo, Calif., position a Starliner spaceship inside an…
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Israel’s Beresheet lander heads for make-or-break lunar capture maneuver
Read more →: Israel’s Beresheet lander heads for make-or-break lunar capture maneuverArtist’s illustration of the Beresheet lander in orbit round the moon. Credit: SpaceIL An Israeli spacecraft has one…
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InSight scientists not sure stalled Mars heat probe can be recovered
Read more →: InSight scientists not sure stalled Mars heat probe can be recoveredA camera on the end of the InSight lander’s robotic arm took this picture of the Heat and…