Tag: Space Tourism
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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…
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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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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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Louisville-based Sierra Space inks Japanese partnerships
Louisville-based Sierra Space inked a deal with Kanematsu Corp. of Japan in an effort to open up its space programs to a more global market. The companies are “opening up global access” to low-Earth orbit (LEO) with Sierra’s Dream Chaser spaceplane and LIFE habitats space station “allowing for new business opportunities in space,” according to…
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‘Gas station in space’ aerospace company lands in Denver
Another aerospace company has picked Colorado to land its headquarters. Orbit Fab, which bills itself as the “Gas Station in Space,” will bring almost 200 new jobs when it moves to Denver from San Francisco, announced the Colorado Office of Economic Development & International Trade. “While there are several states with an aerospace presence in…