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National Defense July 2014 Stew Magnuson |
Costs, Benefits of RD-180 Rocket Engine Replacement Program Debated The U.S. national security space community was left wondering this spring whether a Russian company would continue to supply it with engines needed to launch heavy payloads on its Atlas rockets.  |
National Defense July 2014 Stew Magnuson |
Launch Contract Dispute Pits SpaceX Against Air Force, ULA A dispute between rocket-builder SpaceX and the Air Force over launch contracts came to the fore when the company's founder, Elon Musk announced a lawsuit directed at the service.  |
National Defense September 2014 Chelsea Todaro |
3-D Printed Rocket Engines Increase Production Capability A rocket engine made entirely with additive manufacturing could enable Aerojet Rocketdyne Co. to increase its production from 12 to 100 engines per year.  |
National Defense June 2012 Stew Magnuson |
Industry, Space Agencies Seek Ways To Lower Launch Costs In an age of austere federal budgets, the Air Force and National Reconnaissance Office are looking to reduce the spiraling cost of placing their heaviest satellites into space.  |
BusinessWeek May 5, 2011 McGarry & Capaccio |
The Air Force Kicks Off a New Space Race Lockheed Martin and Boeing may lose from the Air Force's plan to open the $9.9 billion satellite launch business to competition.  |
Wired December 2001 Richard Martin |
From Russia, With 1 Million Pounds of Thrust Why the workhorse RD-180 may be the future of US rocketry...  |
National Defense June 2008 Breanne Wagner |
Low-Cost Space Launch Vehicles Await Liftoff A new generation of small rockets may fulfill the Air Force's goal of creating a market for low-cost space launches.  |
National Defense June 2015 Stew Magnuson |
Air Force Works on Vision of Affordable Space The words "affordable" and "national security space" systems are not often paired together.  |
Popular Mechanics January 29, 2010 David Noland |
Rebel Engineers Sit With NASA to Chart Future of Manned Space President Obama will officially reveal his budget, and his plans for NASA, on Monday, Feb. 1. NASA officials deferred answers to questions until after the budget is released.  |
Fast Company February 2005 Jennifer Reingold |
Hondas in Space The ex-CEO of PayPal is spending a fortune to prove you can build rockets faster, cheaper, and better. Innovation, it seems, isn't always rocket science.  |
Fast Company Nikita Richardson |
Jeff Bezos's Rocket Company Just Came A Step Closer To Carrying Humans To Space Between Boeing, Virgin Galactic, SpaceX, Xcor, and Blue Origin, the private space race is fully underway.  |
National Defense July 2007 Breanne Wagner |
Experimental Rockets Boost Expectations of Lower Costs The Air Force is working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and NASA to develop simpler and less expensive launch vehicles.  |
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider |
Meet The New Zealand Company That's 3-D Printing Rocket Engines... And They Work An upstart New Zealand rocket company says it has found a way to drastically cut the cost of satellite launches: 3-D printing rocket components.  |
Popular Mechanics September 2009 |
Behind the Scenes With the World's Most Ambitious Rocket Makers In late 2001, Tom Mueller was sacrificing his nights and weekends to build a liquid-fuel rocket engine in his garage.  |
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider |
Private Spaceflight Gets A New Boost From Silicon Valley Bessemer Venture Partners, which manages more than $4 billion in capital and primarily invests in cybersecurity and enterprise technology firms, announced a new aerospace investment practice this week.  |
Fast Company Rose Pastore |
Elon Musk Had A Snarky Reply To Jeff Bezos's First Tweet Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos sent his very first tweet, which announced the successful launch and landing of a New Shepard rocket built by Bezos's space company, Blue Origin.  |
The Motley Fool May 3, 2005 Brian Gorman |
Marriage of Convenience Lockheed Martin and Boeing to join forces on U.S. government rocket contracts.  |
Fast Company David Lumb |
Jeff Bezos's Rocket Company Will Test Reusable Spacecraft Later This Year The company's New Shepard reusable capsule is designed to eventually carry tourists and science experiments to the edge of space.  |
Fast Company Christina Farr |
SpaceX's Reusable Rocket Is "Ready to Fire Again" The Falcon 9 rocket carried a payload of 11 satellites to orbit last month and returned to Earth with a vertical landing Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.  |
Popular Mechanics September 14, 2009 Rand Simberg |
Launch System Skepticism Grows at Space 2009: Guest Analysis This week, at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics annual meeting on space in Pasadena, Calif., several technical papers have more to say on the subject of getting back to the moon with existing launch systems.  |
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider |
SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket Will Take To The Skies Again Next Week CEO Elon Musk confirmed via Twitter that SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 rocket around December 19.  |
BusinessWeek December 12, 2005 Stan Crock |
The Final Frontier At Costco Prices SpaceX aims to cut the frills and offer bargain satellite launches.  |
Popular Mechanics January 6, 2010 Joe Pappalardo |
Private Space on Pace to Run NASA's Space Supply NASA contracts to private space companies represents a shift away from government-run space hardware toward rockets and spaceships designed and operated by the private sector.  |