Tag: Spacex
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SpaceX soars 25% in Wall Street debut and makes Elon Musk the first trillionaire
NEW YORK (AP) — The world’s richest man just became its first trillionaire. Shares in Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX soared 25% after opening for trading at noon Friday, an auspicious start for history’s biggest initial public offering and enough to push the net worth of its founder and CEO over the trillion dollar mark.…
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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 [email protected]. 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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Is Elon Musk too powerful for his own good? | Vince Bzdek
“Elon, The Everywhere” is what one White House official calls him. We’re talking about Elon Musk, owner of SpaceX, Tesla, X (formerly known as Twitter), Starlink satellites, Neuralink and a host of other businesses that are actually making the future look like the future. He also at one time owned SolarCity, a company that transformed…
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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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Lafayette gains new aerospace startup ThinkOrbital’s headquarters
Colorado’s aerospace industry just grew Thursday with the announcement of a new company that will create new jobs around the greater Denver area with economic development incentives from the state. Space infrastructure startup ThinkOrbital chose Lafayette for its headquarters, according to a news release from Gov. Jared Polis and the Global Business Development Division of…
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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…