Tag: Aerospace
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Sierra Space teams with New Mexico’s Spaceport America
Louisville-based Sierra Space might soon be landing its winged spacecraft at New Mexico’s Spaceport America, according to a news release. The two companies signed a memorandum of understanding outlining their “mutual pursuit to increase Spaceport America’s capabilities and demand for Dream Chaser reentry at the spaceport.” The next step would be to pursue a “Part…
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Blast off in Berthoud: Rocket manufacturer cranking out more affordable, re-useable rocket engines
Blast off in Berthoud! Rocket engine manufacturer Ursa Major test-fired two rocket engines Friday next to a rural ranch subdivision and surrounded by prairie land. Both tests went ground-shakingly well. But there’s no applause from witnesses. “We quit doing that after the thousandth test,” said CEO Joe Laurieniti. A cloud of dirt is kicked up…
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The future of financing space development
Once the Internal Revenue Service starts recognizing things like spaceports the way it does airports, docks and train stations, investment in the aerospace industry will really take off, according to two financing experts who spoke at the 37th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs last week. Jon Moellenberg, Colorado-based managing director of RBC Capital Markets, and…
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Gov. Polis touts new aerospace branding campaign at Space Symposium
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis touched down at the 37th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs on Tuesday, met with several high-ranking military and Colorado aerospace company officials and touted the state’s new marketing/branding efforts to sell the state to more aerospace companies: AerospaceCO. “I walk away from this symposium, frankly, with my mind blown about the…
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Space vehicle parts manufacturer expands to Arvada
Moog Inc., an aerospace company that designs and manufactures hardware for space vehicles, expanded its Golden operations to a new facility in Arvada, according to a news release. The 29,000-square-foot location at 5025 Robb St. in Arvada “quadruples the company’s Colorado footprint and includes production areas, lab space, and clean rooms for highly engineered hardware,…
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Lafayette-based Blue Canyon Technology lands NASA contract
NASA picked Lafayette-based Blue Canyon Technologies to build eight X-SAT Venus ESPA-class microsatellite buses for its HelioSwarm science mission, which will study solar wind and space plasma turbulence, according to a news release Thursday. A microsatellite bus, or microsat, is a small satellite, from 22 to 200 lbs., that can carry payload for commercial or…
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Colorado’s Bluestaq approved for $5.6 million in incentives to expand with 585 jobs
Colorado Springs-based government contractor Bluestaq said Friday it will hire 585 people over the next eight years after state economic development officials approved $5.57 million in incentives for the company. The nearly 4-year-old startup, which now employs 65 people in downtown Colorado Springs, will use the state tax credits to recruit the additional workers and…
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Louisville-based Sierra Space looking to hire 1K more employees
Louisville-based Sierra Space officials for months have been talking about the need to hire more employees as the company has picked up more aerospace contracts and inked partnerships for some large-scale space projects in coming years. They ramped that effort up considerably Thursday with the announcement the company wants to nearly double its workforce of…
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Rocket Lab plans space systems complex in Littleton
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The positive aerospace industry growth news for metro Denver keeps rolling in. The latest is from Rocket Lab USA, Inc. which announced it’s opening a new space systems complex in Littleton “to support growing customer demand for flight software, mission simulation and Guidance, Navigation and…
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Blue Origin landing in south Denver
Billionaire Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin plans a south Denver operation, as evidenced by more than 50 Denver-based job openings on the company’s website, a paragraph about south Denver there as well as off-the-record confirmation from numerous sources. The rapidly growing aerospace company, headquartered in Kent, Washington, currently has about 4,000 employees nationwide. A company spokesman…