Tag: Space
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‘Building Star Trek’ connects 50-year-old artifacts with 23rd-century technologies
A scaled-down model of the Starship Enterprise hangs from the ceiling at “Star Trek: Exploring New Worlds,” an exhibit at Seattle’s EMP Museum marking the 50th anniversary of the TV show’s premiere. (GeekWire photo by Kevin Lisota) The vision of the future that “Star Trek” laid out in 1966 may have been bright and shiny, but…
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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg ‘deeply disappointed’ to lose his satellite in SpaceX’s rocket explosion
Mark Zuckerberg saw the Amos-6 satellite as the first step in Facebook’s plan to provide satellite internet access to underserved regions of the world. Today’s loss of a Falcon 9 rocket and its satellite payload was a bummer for Facebook billionaire founder Mark Zuckerberg as well as for SpaceX billionaire founder Elon Musk. “As I’m…
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FAA puts key Amazon, UPS, Facebook and Google execs on Drone Advisory Committee
An Amazon delivery drone. Photo via Amazon. Gur Kimchi, the vice president of Amazon’s Prime Air drone delivery operation, has been named along with a variety of other tech executives to a Drone Advisory Committee that “will help the FAA prioritize its activities, including the development of future regulations and policies” for unmanned aircraft in U.S. airspace. Gur…
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Obama puts Neal Stephenson’s sci-fi tale ‘Seveneves’ on his summer reading list
“Seveneves” by Neal Stephenson. (Credit: William Morrow) Seattle science-fiction author Neal Stephenson’s tale about the moon’s destruction and what happens next, “Seveneves,” has won a place on President Barack Obama’s summer reading list. Obama, who’s beginning his summer vacation on Martha’s Vineyard, isn’t the only one who has put Stephenson’s 880-page novel on a short list. Microsoft…
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Techstars grad Kepler Communications raises $5M to launch mini satellites by 2017 and double its team
Kepler CEO Mina Mitry. Kepler Communications, a Techstars Seattle graduate building telecom infrastructure for space, just secured $5 million in seed funding. New York venture capital firm IA Ventures led the round. The Toronto-based startup will use the funds to grow its team and launch two tiny satellites into space in the next 15 months. Previously: Startup…
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Out of this world! Seattle sisters launch their Loki Lego 2.0 balloon craft past 100,000 feet
Loki Lego Launcher 2.0 soars high above central Washington on July 30. (Courtesy of Rebecca and Kimberly Yeung) Update: A new YouTube video, below, captures the preparation and launch of Loki Lego Launcher 2.0. The girls have also update their blog with a mission debrief post, which discusses data from the onboard solar experiment as…
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Seattle girls who captivated nation with homemade spacecraft ready to launch again — with new science goals, new Star Wars hero on board
Budding scientists and space explorers Rebecca and Kimberly Yeung of Seattle. The Seattle sisters who captivated GeekWire’s audience and earned an invitation to the White House after launching a homemade craft to the edge of space are embarking on another mission this weekend. Rebecca and Kimberly Yeung are planning to send up the Loki Lego…
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‘Mars’ trailer features Elon Musk, Neil Tyson and Red Planet explorers from 2033
An astronaut surveys a Martian landscape in a scene from “Mars,” a National Geographic Channel miniseries due to air in November. (Credit: National Geographic / Imagine / RadicalMedia) National Geographic Channel’s “Mars” miniseries blends a fictional tale about Mars colonists in 2033 with modern-day musings about Red Planet missions – and so does today’s trailer for the…
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NASA shows off greatest hits from DSCOVR satellite’s year of watching Earth
The DSCOVR satellite keeps tabs on Earth from a million miles away. (Credit: NASA GSFC) It’s been a year since NASA unveiled the first image of Earth’s sunlit side captured by the Deep Space Climate Observatory, or DSCOVR, and to celebrate the occasion, you can see an entire year’s worth of DSCOVR’s view in less than three minutes. The…
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Get a look at Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos as an alien in ‘Star Trek Beyond’
Jeff Bezos wears a Starfleet uniform (and heavy makeup) in “Star Trek Beyond.” (Credit: Justin Lin via Twitter) You’d hardly recognize Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos in the super-heavy makeup he wears as an alien Starfleet official in “Star Trek Beyond,” the latest big-screen voyage of the Starship Enterprise. But just to make sure you’re able…