Getting things into outer space is hard, and moving around while you're up there can be harder, but one company thinks it ...

When gamers like you and me hear about some kind of "portal", there's more than one connection we make: we imagine fast-travel options to save time, gateways to different worlds in fantasy adventures ...

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 ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Alan Boyle on Apr 3, 2025 at 6:00 am ...

Portal’s heat exchanger thruster, known as Flare, fires up during a test in a vacuum chamber. (Portal Space Systems Photo) Bothell, Wash.-based Portal Space Systems says it has successfully tested its ...