The downside of writing up demo days
Tech writers are invited to a lot of demo days, as you might imagine. Sometimes, these presentations are very long, with many startup teams taking the stage to pitch to investors and the media....
Tagged: space
Elon Musk shares first full-body photo of SpaceX’s spacesuit
Elon Musk has shared a photo of the SpaceX spacesuit the company has designed in-house. This is the second photo shared by Musk of the new spacesuit design created by the company, and the...
SpaceX successfully launches mysterious X-37B spaceplane and recovers first stage
SpaceX can add another first to its ever-increasing list: On Thursday, it successfully launched an the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B experimental spaceplane for the first time. This makes it the only launch provider to...
Space Nation will tap NASA for global astronaut training program
Democratizing access to space is going to take a lot of work, but Space Nation wants to help with the astronaut training bit of that equation. Now, the startup has announced it will have...
World View’s stratospheric balloon spends a record 27 hours in flight
World View most recent Stratollite mission broke some records for the high altitude aeronautics company: the balloon-based stratospheric vehicle managed to stay aloft for around 27 hours during a mission carried out last weekend,...
Watch astronaut Peggy Whitson return to Earth after 288 days in space
Record-setting astronaut Peggy Whitson is coming back from space as the cumulative record holder for longest time spent floating up among the stars and you can watch the live stream of her touching down...
3D printed space habitats earn $400K in prizes at NASA competition
One of the many considerations we will have should we decide at last to colonize another planet is where we’ll live. Should we bring inflatable habitats? Should we ship girders and metal sheets? Or...
Citizen spacecraft builders literally race to the moon in NASA’s Cube Quest Challenge
NASA is in the business of giving small-time scientists and engineers opportunities: its small business grants, open data initiatives, and other efforts are meant to empower the high school kid or hobbyist who could...
SpaceX successfully launches its 12th Falcon 9 rocket of 2017
SpaceX has succeeded with a launch of one of its Falcon 9 rockets today, for client Taiwan National Space Organization (NSPO). The rocket took off from SpaceX’s launch facility 4E at California’s Vandenberg Air...
Descartes Labs raises $30 million Series B for its brand of geospatial analytics
Descartes Labs is announcing a $30 million Series B this morning in a large round led by March Capital. This comes just three months after one of Descartes’ largest competitors, Orbital Insight, closed its...
