Tag: Sierra Space
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EDITORIAL: Colorado holds key to the Golden Dome
News last week that Colorado’s Louisville-based Sierra Space has landed a $798 million federal contract to design and build 18 missile warning and tracking satellites reaffirms our state’s pivotal role in the nation’s defense in outer space. It also illustrates the formidable potential of the aerospace sector for the state’s economy. Even as one door…
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Colorado-built Dream Chaser loses NASA missions, delayed again
The Dream Chaser, the long-awaited reusable spaceplane inspired by the Space Shuttle, could be chasing its own dreams for a little while longer. NASA announced on Thursday that it significantly changed the terms of the contract it awarded in 2016 to Louisville-based Sierra Space, the aerospace and defense company behind Dream Chaser. The company and…
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Next Vulcan rocket launch won’t carry Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser, ULA CEO says
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Two Denver region aerospace companies won’t take off together as soon as expected. Tory Bruno, the CEO and president of United Launch Alliance — headquartered in Centennial — announced Wednesday in a media conference that the next launch of its Vulcan rocket won’t carry Sierra Space’s highly-anticipated…
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Colorado companies begin groundwork for future moon economy
The lunar market could be worth $142 billion by 2040, a report found, and aerospace companies across the Front Range see a beacon of opportunities.
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Sierra Space’s latest funding round led by Japanese partners
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Sierra Space announced on Tuesday it closed a $290 million second round of funding led by Japanese partners, which company officials say will go toward its efforts to develop a private space station. Officials said it was an “industry record for combined Series A and…
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Sierra Space, Lockheed Martin create human habitats for missions beyond the moon
Two aerospace companies working in Colorado created competing space products that would allow for humans to live and work in space. Sierra Space, a Louisville-based commercial space company, and Lockheed Martin, which has a large campus southwest of Denver, both created human habitats capable of withstanding space’s harsh conditions. Both issued news releases Tuesday announcing…
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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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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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Sierra Space cements partnership with Kansas aerospace company
Louisville-based Sierra Space inked a partnership with a Kansas aerospace company to accelerate production of space transport vehicles to allow for greater, more affordable access to Earth’s low orbit, according to a news release. Spirit AeroSystems Inc. (NYSE: SPR) will work with Sierra Space to create a “vibrant commercial space economy of the future” by…
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Aerospace companies explain Orbital Reef, ‘business park in space’
Right on the heels of the news Sierra Space and Blue Origin successfully completed a key review stage for the Orbital Reef space station project Tuesday, company representatives talked at length about what’s been described as a “business park in space” at the 37th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. It took just three months to…