Space startups team up for a novel satellite meetup
Tukwila, Wash.-based Starfish Space and California-based Impulse Space say they’ve successfully demonstrated an in-space satellite rendezvous during a mission that handed over control of an Impulse Mira spacecraft to Starfish’s guidance and navigation system.

The demonstration was code-named
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/12/15/space-startups-team-up-for-a-novel-satellite-meetup/
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Outbound Aerospace hits the end of its financial runway
Only a few months ago, Outbound Aerospace was on its way up — literally — after raising more than $1 million in pre-seed funding and flying a prototype meant to pave the way for a blended-wing passenger jet. But now the Seattle startup’s fortunes have fallen back to earth.

Outboun
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/12/11/outbound-aerospace-hits-the-end-of-its-financial-runway/
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Portal Space’s satellite factory wins support from state
Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson is setting aside $350,000 from an economic development fund to support Portal Space Systems’ expansion into a new 50,000-square-foot satellite manufacturing facility in Bothell, Wash.

Ferguson announced today that he’s directing the state Department of Commerce to award fun
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/12/10/portal-spaces-satellite-factory-wins-support-from-state/
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Lumotive goes global with optical 3D sensor chips
Months after raising $59 million in venture capital to commercialize its miniaturized 3D sensors, Redmond, Wash.-based Lumotive is going global.

The company says it has opened offices in Oman and Taiwan to help bring its products to market — and has added two senior tech industry leaders to its manag
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/12/09/lumotive-goes-global-with-optical-3d-sensor-chips/
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How the buzz over an ‘alien’ interstellar comet went viral
Is an interstellar spacecraft zooming through our solar system? That’s the big question for fans of unidentified flying objects — and for a researcher at the University of Washington who analyzed the speculation over the interstellar com
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/12/06/how-the-buzz-over-an-alien-interstellar-comet-went-viral/
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OpenAI CEO considers exploring the space data frontier
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is thinking about expanding into the final frontier for data centers, and his efforts to follow through on that thought reportedly turned into talks with Stoke Space, a rocket startup headquartered just south of Seattle.

Altman looked into putting together funding to invest in
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/12/05/openai-ceo-considers-exploring-the-space-data-frontier/
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How a decades-old idea sparked a hot new space venture
BOTHELL, Wash. — Before he became the CEO of Portal Space Systems, Jeff Thornburg worked for two of the world’s most innovative space-minded billionaires. Now he’s working on an idea those billionaires never thought to pursue: building a spacecraft powered by the heat of
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/11/25/how-a-decades-old-idea-sparked-a-hot-new-space-venture/
#GeekWire #JeffThornburg #PortalSpaceSystems #Propulsion #SolarPower #Space

Amazon gears up for beta test of satellite internet service
Amazon Leo — the satellite internet service provider formerly known as Project Kuiper — says it has started shipping its top-of-the-line terminals to select customers for testing.

Today’s announcement serves as further evidence that Amazon is closin
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/11/24/amazon-gears-up-for-beta-test-of-satellite-internet-service/
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Blue Origin supersizes its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket
Just a week after a successful launch of its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture says it will make New Glenn even heavier.

The new super-heavy-lift variant of Blue Origin’s most powerful rocket, known as New Glenn 9×4, will feature nine methane-fueled BE-4 engines on the fir
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/11/20/blue-origin-supersizes-its-heavy-lift-new-glenn-rocket/
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Scientists simulate the brain on a supercomputer
Creating a virtual brain may sound like a science-fiction nightmare, but for neuroscientists in Japan and at Seattle’s Allen Institute, it’s a big step toward a long-held dream.

They say their mouse-cortex simulation, run on one of the world’s fastest supercompute
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/11/17/scientists-simulate-the-brain-on-a-supercomputer/
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Blue Origin sends probes to Mars and brings back booster
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture sent twin orbiters on the first leg of their journey to Mars today, marking a successful sequel to January’s first liftoff of the company’s heavy-lift New Glenn launch vehicle.

The trouble-free launch of NASA’s Escapade probes, plus today’s first-e
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/11/13/blue-origin-sends-probes-to-mars-and-brings-back-booster/
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Portal unveils a new breed of maneuverable spacecraft
Bothell, Wash.-based Portal Space Systems has added another spacecraft to its product line: a rapid-maneuverability vehicle called Starburst, which takes advantage of technologies that are being developed for its more powerful Supernova satellite platform.

Starburst-1 is due to star in Portal’s fi
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/11/05/portal-unveils-a-new-breed-of-maneuverable-spacecraft/
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Radical flies full-size prototype for stratospheric drone
Seattle-based Radical says it has put a full-size prototype for a solar-powered drone through its first flight, marking one low-altitude step in the startup’s campaign to send robo-planes into the stratosphere for long-duration military and commercial missions.

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https://cosmiclog.com/2025/10/29/radical-flies-full-size-prototype-for-stratospheric-drone/
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Tech pundits get snarky over the coming AI bubble
How will the companies that have invested tens of billions of dollars in the infrastructure for artificial intelligence fare when the enshittification hits the fan? That question came in for a lot of attention — and snark — when tech pundits Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron sat down in Seattle to muse about w
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/10/23/tech-pundits-get-snarky-over-the-coming-ai-bubble/
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Seattle Space Week provides a peek at hypersonic blaster
Most weeklong tech events have opportunities for entrepreneurs to make contacts and trade tips, serious sessions where CEOs and public officials share their visions, and happy hours where future deals are made. But how many “tech weeks” include a show-and-tell fe
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/10/10/seattle-space-week-provides-a-peek-at-hypersonic-blaster/
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It’s official! Stoke Space raises $510M for its Nova rocket
Kent, Wash.-based Stoke Space Technologies today revealed that it has raised $510 million in fresh funding to accelerate development of its fully reusable medium-lift Nova rocket.

The Series D funding round, let by Thomas Tull’s US Innovative Technology Fund, comes in conjunction with a $100 million debt f
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/10/08/its-official-stoke-space-raises-510m-for-its-nova-rocket/
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Stoke Space is reportedly raising sky-high funding
Stoke Space, one of the Seattle area’s up-and-coming space startups, is said to be raising hundreds of millions of dollars in a funding round that it hasn’t yet publicly acknowledged. A report about the round, based on two unidentified sources, was published today by The Information.

The Information quoted its sources as s
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/10/07/stoke-space-is-reportedly-raising-sky-high-funding/
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Scientists enlist AI to map regions of the brain
Scientists say an artificial intelligence program that they compare to ChatGPT has helped them create one of the most detailed maps of the mouse brain to date, with 1,300 regions and subregions marked on the map.

Some of those subregions have never been charted before — and the researchers sa
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/10/07/scientists-enlist-ai-to-map-regions-of-the-brain/
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