Tag: Jeff Bezos
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Welcome to the Age of the Broligarchs | Vince Bzdek
One of the most remarkable things about the inauguration Monday was the prominence of place given to tech titans during the ceremonies. Magnates worth more than $1 trillion were seated right behind the president and a row ahead of Donald Trump’s Cabinet as Trump was sworn in. Tesla and X CEO Elon Musk, Meta CEO…
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Rocky Mountain Prep charter school receives surprise $4.5 million philanthropic gift
Denver’s Rocky Mountain Prep charter school this week received a surprise gift of $4.5 million from one of the world’s leading philanthropists, MacKenzie Scott. Scott, author and former wife of Amazon mogul Jeff Bezos, has donated more than $12 billion of her estimated $35.2 billion fortune to more than 1,200 non-profits since July, 2020, according…
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NASA space station Orbital Reef moves to design phase
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Louisville-based Sierra Space and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin reached a key milestone with NASA in the development of the Orbital Reef space station, which will replace the International Space Station, according to a news release. Company officials completed the “System Definition Review” stage…
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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…
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Colorado-based Sierra Space nabs large NASA contract
NASA awarded Blue Origin and Louisville-based Sierra Space a $130 million contract to design, build and operate Orbital Reef, which is described as a business park in space. The news came Thursday, the same day NASA announced another $160 million grant from the Space Act Agreement to Nanoracks, which is owned by Denver-based Voyager Space,…
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Louisville-based Sierra Space, Blue Origin announce ‘business park in space’
Louisville-based Sierra Space and billionaire Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin on Monday announced plans for an “Orbital Reef” space station — basically “a mixed-use business park” in space. Plans call for the “commercially developed, owned, and operated space station” to be built in low Earth orbit, according to a release from Sierra Space. “Seasoned space agencies, high-tech…
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Americans are good at democratizing things. Space is next. | Vince Bzdek
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Sixty years and two months after Alan Shepard became the first American to reach space, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos and their guests became the first private passengers to reach space aboard private rocket ships, and Bezos’s rocket just happened to be dubbed the New Shepard.…
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MacKenzie Scott donates $55 million to Colorado groups as part of $4 billion giving spree
Philanthropist, writer and billionaire MacKenzie Scott donated $15 million to Goodwill of Colorado, the largest gift the 102-year-old nonprofit has ever received, the organization announced Thursday. In the last four months, Scott has donated $4.158 billion to 384 organizations across all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington D.C., she said in a blog post. In…