Space
Japanese Joint Venture Plans to Acquire Seattle-Based Spaceflight
The sale will allow parent company Spaceflight Industries to focus accelerating the growth of its BlackSky subsidiary
The sale will allow parent company Spaceflight Industries to focus accelerating the growth of its BlackSky subsidiary
Seattles Spaceflight Teams Up With Indian Space Company to Send More Satellites Into Orbit
Spaceflight to date has inked deals to launch some 270 satellites, including nearly 100 this year
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket packed with 64 small satellites stands ready to blast off as part of a 2018 rideshare mission managed by Seattle-based Spaceflight.
Amazon Plans to Launch 3,000 Satellites as New Space Race Heats up
Seattle company joins a host of players seeking to provide internet service from space
E-commerce giant Amazon is joining the race to build a space-based internet powered by satellites. The company confirmed a plan, dubbed Project Kuiper, to launch a network of some 3,000 small satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO) to provide high-speed broadband internet service globally, according to reports in Reuters and CNBC based on federal filings….
LeoStella Opens Satellite-Manufacturing Plant in Tukwila
New facility is slated to produce 20 small satellites for Seattle-based BlackSkys Earth-observation platform
LeoStella, a locally based small-satellite design and manufacturing company, has unveiled its new manufacturing facility in Tukwila, Washington, where it will produce its first satellite by the end of March for BlackSky, a subsidiary of Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries. LeoStella has a contract to produce 20 satellites at its 20,000-square-foot manufacturing facility for BlackSky, which plans…
2017 Tech Impact Awards, Space: Blue Origin
Jeff Bezos' ambitious venture in Kent is a Gold Award-winner. Plus: Silver Award-winner Spaceflight Industries.
Location: Kent | Employees: 784 Todays space race isnt pitting nation against nation. Rather, its billionaire vs. billionaire vs. billionaire. Jeff Bezos ambitious venture in Kent has been leading the pack lately, with Blue Origins fully reusable New Shepard rocket launching and landing in West Texas five times in less than two years. The suborbital…
Spaceflight Industries Signs On to ‘Breakthrough’ Partnership
The Tech Impact Award-winner signed a strategic partnership with The Space Alliance in Paris.
Spaceflight Industries has entered into a new strategic partnership with the Space Alliance, the company announced. Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries, an honoree at the upcoming 2017 Seattle Business magazine Tech Impact Awards, called it a major breakthrough. Today in Paris, France, the Space Alliance, formed by Thales Alenia Space and Telespazio, signed a partnership with Spaceflight…
The Next Generation
How Seattle innovators are leading the new race into space.
Ever since the Boeing-centric aerospace cluster in the Puget Sound region emerged as one of the worlds leading centers of aviation, everyone has been looking for the next great industry to power the economy. They may well have found it in roughly the same place. Seattles next tech-intense, opportunity-rich, risk-intensive business cluster may be based…