Tag: Spacex
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‘All systems go:’ Lockheed Martin says first humans could return to moon this February
It was 53 years ago that Apollo astronauts last flew a lunar mission, but a human return to the moon really is about to happen — maybe just six months from now, NASA and Lockheed Martin executives told a crowd at Denver Museum of Nature & Science Wednesday. NASA’s Artemis II mission, with a crew…
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Metro Moves: The Cherry Cricket announces fourth location
Welcome to the Denver Gazette’s Metro Moves. You’ll get the latest metro Denver openings, closings, hiring and promotion news here. To submit your company’s news, drop an email to bernadette.berdychowski@denvergazette.com. The Cherry Cricket expanding to Broomfield Denver’s popular burger joint The Cherry Cricket is opening a fourth location, the restaurant announced Monday. The restaurant chain offering…
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Next Vulcan rocket launch won’t carry Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser, ULA CEO says
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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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Issues on Centennial company’s rocket delays highly-anticipated Boeing Starliner launch
United Launch Alliance and Boeing’s first flight carrying astronauts to the International Space Station continues to face delays. ULA — an aerospace company headquartered in Centennial — scrubbed Monday night’s launch of its Atlas V rocket to take Boeing’s Starliner with two NASA astronauts onboard “out of an abundance of caution” for the crew’s safety, a statement…
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CU Boulder Engineering student club prepares for national competition
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In a small unit outside of Lafayette, around 25 CU Boulder Engineering students tinkered Saturday with the potential future of transportation — along with their personal futures. The CU Hyperloop team, made up of CU students of all ages and majors, are preparing their 2,000-some-odd-pound tunnel-boring robot for Elon Musk’s The Boring Company’s international “Not-a-Boring Competition”…
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The final frontiers’ space junk problem has a Denver-based solution
The final frontier has a junk problem, and Astroscale is working to change that. Founded and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, the company celebrated the grand opening of its United States headquarters at 2201 S. Delaware St., Denver, Sunday afternoon. The location will house 50 of Astroscale’s roughly 60 U.S. based employees and features a mission…
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Colorado’s ties to NASA’s Artemis I launch
When the world’s most powerful rocket engine blasts off from Kennedy Space Center Monday, carrying the Orion spacecraft on NASA’s pioneering Artemis I mission to moon orbit, it also carries years of hard work by many Colorado-based aerospace industry members. Artemis I is an un-crewed test flight to see if the Orion spacecraft can carry…
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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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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…