• Startup Trek: Blue Origin vets go to the frontiers of space and tech with new studio,Alan Boyle

    Startup Trek: Blue Origin vets go to the frontiers of space and tech with new studio

    Andrew Woodfield and Chris Le are the founding partners of Actuate Ventures. (Photo Courtesy of Chris Le)Two former employees of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space company are striking out on their own with Actuate Ventures, a venture studio that specializes in supporting startups in the space industry a

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  • Starfish Space brings in new funding as it gears up for orbital inspection and docking,Alan Boyle

    Starfish Space brings in new funding as it gears up for orbital inspection and docking

    Artwork shows the Otter spacecraft in orbit near another satellite. (Starfish Space Illustration)Tukwila, Wash.-based Starfish Space is bringing in more funding after announcing several agreements to use its Otter spacecraft for missions ranging from inspecting dead satellites to extending the life

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  • Tech leader Charles Simonyi provides a wide-angle view of the telescope that bears his family name,Alan Boyle

    Tech leader Charles Simonyi provides a wide-angle view of the telescope that bears his family name

    Hubble. Webb. Chandra. Spitzer. Rubin. Roman. And now, Simonyi.With the ramping up of the Simonyi Survey Telescope at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, Microsoft software architect Charles Simonyi joins a select group of scientists and technologists, policymakers and philanthropists who have h

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