Portal Space Systems, a 4-year-old Bothell startup, wants to make it easier for spacecraft to move between orbits. To make that happen, it had to dust off decades-old research on an unorthodox ...

Within hours of deployment, the Bothell, Wash.-based company reported that the desk-sized craft had established ground communications, stabilized itself, and successfully deployed its solar array to ...

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An artist’s conception shows Portal Space Systems’ Starburst spacecraft at left and its larger Supernova platform in the distance at right, both outfitted with Paladin Space’s Triton payload for ...