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Orbite begins the launch countdown for its commercial astronaut training programs

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(Orbite Photo) After getting its start in Seattle and testing its business model in France and Florida, a space travel venture called Orbite is ready to start signing up customers for private-sector astronaut training programs. Prices for the five-night suborbital training program start at $49,500 per person.

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Seattle-area county reveals plans for ‘world leading’ sustainable aviation fuel R&D center

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The Boeing plant at Snohomish County’s Paine Field in 2019. The county and Washington State University aim to open a research and development center in the area that’s focused on sustainable aviation fuel. million in the state’s transportation budget to get the project rolling.

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Starfish Space raises $14M to advance development of satellite servicing vehicles

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(Starfish Space Illustration) Starfish Space , a Seattle-area startup founded by two veterans of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture, has raised $14 million in funding to support its plans to develop spacecraft capable of hooking up with bigger satellites to boost their orbits — or safely dispose of them. ”

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Why Norway — the poster child for electric cars — is having second thoughts

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I’ve been writing about transportation for the better part of a decade, so all that fawning international attention piqued my curiosity. And it could happen in other countries, too, including in the United States, where transportation is the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. Norway rocks!!”

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Stoke Space fuels up with $100M in funding in quest to build fully reusable rockets

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-based company’s quest to develop a new breed of fully reusable rocket and reach orbit by 2025. “We will now continue moving through our development program by increasing focus on our reusable first stage.” Along with the funding, Stoke Space unveiled the name of its rocket: Nova.

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Alaska Airlines launches investment arm to support goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2040

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Alaska’s investment is part of a new $230 million UP.Partners venture fund backing early-stage transportation and mobility technology companies, also announced Monday. However, “the fact that technology is actually actively developing solutions for that problem right now, I think is a really cool confluence.”.

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Secretive new startup focuses on off-road autonomous vehicles, led by UW robotics experts

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An autonomous Polaris vehicle equipped with sensors and computers developed by researchers at the University of Washington. In 2019 Boots returned to the UW, where he is currently the Amazon Professor of Machine Learning at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering.