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I'm ashamed to admit that I've rather lost track of most of the private launch startups over most of the last decade beyond the occasional news splash. It's not that I lost interest, it just slipped down my priority list somehow.
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By Dominic Gates Seattle Times aerospace reporter In the booming commercial space business, ventures founded by tech billionaires Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Paul Allen are reinventing the most expensive aspect — launching spacecraft into orbit. All three are intent on tapping this region’s aerospace and software talent, and all three speak in visionary terms. “Earth — this blue planet — in all its beauty, is just our starting point,” Amazon chief executive Bezos says on the Blue Origin website. “Now is the time to open the promise of space to all.” In April, Blue Origin successfully tested its New Shepard rocket. It’s also partnering with Boeing and Lockheed to design American rocket engines that will replace the current Russian engines on government launches. Bezos has gathered a 350-strong engineering team at Blue Origin headquarters in Kent. Serial entrepreneur Musk, who made his fortune as a co-founder of PayPal and reinvented the car at Tesla Motors, formed SpaceX to pursue his ambition to colonize Mars... |
I'm ashamed to admit that I've rather lost track of most of the private launch startups over most of the last decade beyond the occasional news splash. It's not that I lost interest, it just slipped down my priority list somehow.
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