Tag: Space
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NewSpace conference coming to Seattle in 2016, showcasing advances in aerospace
A scene from the NewSpace conference in Silicon Valley. Seattle has been at the forefront of the aerospace industry since its birth, and the industry is now going through a renaissance with the arrival of companies such as SpaceX as well as homegrown upstarts like Jef Bezos-backed Blue Origin. Now, the region is getting a…
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Stephen Hawking searches for aliens, and Elon Musk explains the SpaceX explosion
Alan Boyle We’ve been thrilled to have longtime space and science reporter Alan Boyle covering two big stories for GeekWire today: Stephen Hawking’s announcement of a $100 million initiative to find alien life, and Elon Musk’s news conference about a preliminary finding in the recent SpaceX Falcon 9 explosion. Before leaving the GeekWire offices this afternoon, Alan sat down and talked with us…
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Stephen Hawking and Russian tycoon Yuri Milner kick off new search for E.T.
Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner. (Photo courtesy of Hawking Center for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge.) Russian high-tech billionaire Yuri Milner teamed up with the world’s most famous scientist, British physicist Stephen Hawking, to announce a new $100 million effort to detect signals from alien civilizations. The Breakthrough Listen initiative was unveiled Monday during a webcast from…
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My Own Private Comic-Con: Personal notes from the giant pop culture convention
Commentary, photos and videos of International Comic-Con 2015’s big moments abound. Most are written in the moment, reporting the sights and sounds, shock, joy or dismay. Those visceral moments — shared by dozens, hundreds or thousands of fans — are far from universal. Each person brought his or her experiences, expectations, biases, loves and desires to…
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Stephen Colbert checks in with Neil deGrasse Tyson in this super-scientific Pluto Flyby update
Let’s check back in on Pluto, shall we? In the midst of celebrating the news that Pluto successfully completed its flyby yesterday,The Late Show‘s Stephen Colbert sat down with Neil deGrasse Tyson in what appears to be an intern’s cubicle to discuss the monumental event. Colbert, excited that New Horizons, or the spacecraft “named after the…
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Superzoom camera can literally shoot the Moon, but will it have a creepy dark side?
The zoom ability of the P900 is other-worldy. Three frames taken from the same spot. (NikonUSA.com) The latest techno-sensation is about a camera with, quite literally, other-wordly capabilities. The newly released Nikon P900 is a point-and-shoot that might as well be a telescope. The first consumers to get their hands on the thing are posting…
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Spaceflight Industries inks partnerships to improve its ‘cellphone network for space’
Spaceflight Industries announced a partnership today with Spire Global to expand its network of ground stations for its Spaceflight Networks “cellphone network for space.” The company also announced partnerships with Tethers Unlimited, BitBeam and Syrlinks to produce spacecraft radios. Spaceflight Networks’ expected ground station coverage map for 2017 Under the partnership with Spire, Spaceflight Networks will expand its ground…
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Have you tried restarting? Bill Nye’s LightSail needs a reboot due to software glitch
An artist rendition of what the LightSail will look like if it can be deployed Update, Saturday evening: LightSail spacecraft reboots in orbit: ‘It’s alive!’ says Bill Nye A glitch with a spreadsheet file has caused Bill Nye’s LightSail satellite to stop responding. With no communication, the Planetary Society may have to wait for a cosmic…
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NASA taps Boeing for first commercial crew flight to International Space Station
Boeing’s Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100. Photo via Boeing. Boeing will help NASA get back into the business of transporting people to the International Space Station. NASA announced on Wednesday that it has tasked Boeing to fly astronauts to the ISS in 2017, marking its first commercial order for a human spaceflight mission. The “crew rotation mission” is part of…
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House passes space mining bill allowing companies to keep what they find in asteroids
Planetary Resources President Chris Lewicki with the Arkyd spacecraft at the GeekWire Summit 2014. Asteroid mining has made its way to Washington D.C. To help companies gain future legal ownership of resources found in space asteroids, the House of Representatives passed the “SPACE Act of 2015” this week, The Washington Post reported. The legislation would create new commercial property…