Tag: colorado space coalition
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Tariffs threaten Colorado’s burgeoning space industry | Vince Bzdek
On the eve of the 40th annual Space Symposium at The Broadmoor, a shadow hangs in the stratosphere. What will President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariffs mean for the space industry, the global supply chain to the stars, and the international connections so many businesses make in Colorado Springs and come to rely on to market…
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Building Colorado’s economic case to keep Space Command begins
The state has one of the most diverse aerospace industries in the country, according to the Colorado State Coalition, a group of local industry stakeholders.
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What sets Colorado’s Front Range apart from other space hubs?
The region has been instrumental to some of the biggest aerospace projects of the millenium, including bringing humans to the moon and Mars.
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Asteroid mining company relocates to Denver from the Netherlands
A space resources startup, Karman+, selected Denver for its headquarters to relocate from the Netherlands, according to a news release. The Polis Administration and the Global Business Development Division of the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) made the announcement Wednesday. The company also considered the United Kingdom and Luxembourg as potential…
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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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Loss of U.S. Space Command a ‘missed opportunity’ for Colorado Springs; what next?
John Suthers has plenty of economic development wins as mayor — a massive Amazon distribution center and Southwest Airlines expanding to Colorado Springs to name two — but he called the loss of the U.S. Space Command to Huntsville, Ala., his biggest setback. “We haven’t had a whole lot of economic development bad news, but…