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Douglas County-led panel emphasizes ‘industry collaboration’ among aerospace companies
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Douglas County leaders and state aerospace industry representatives discussed Wednesday what draws aerospace companies to Colorado, notably to the county with more than 27,000 aerospace workers. The panel, a part of the Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce’s Site Selection Conference, comes on the heels of President Donald Trump last month announcing Space Command is moving…
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Sierra Space, Lockheed Martin create human habitats for missions beyond the moon
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Two aerospace companies working in Colorado created competing space products that would allow for humans to live and work in space. Sierra Space, a Louisville-based commercial space company, and Lockheed Martin, which has a large campus southwest of Denver, both created human habitats capable of withstanding space’s harsh conditions. Asteroid mining company relocates to Denver…
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NASA’s $160M contract has big implications for Colorado
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NASA awarded Denver-based Voyager Space, Lockheed Martin and Nanoracks a $160 million contract to design Starlab, a new commercial space station to replace the International Space Station, the companies announced Thursday. Dylan Taylor, chief executive and chairman of Voyager Space, told The Denver Gazette on Wednesday that the contract means the aerospace company will need…
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Plans to expand space program create hope for a bigger Colorado role (VIDEO)
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WASHINGTON — Federal officials laid out a plan to expand commercial space travel before U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner and other lawmakers Wednesday while Colorado political leaders try to position the state to benefit from growing opportunities in the final frontier. Potentially most important for Colorado was a plan for managing space traffic described at a…
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Lockheed Martin to add 550 missile jobs in Jeffco
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Jefferson County officials say Lockheed Martin Space is bringing 550 jobs to the area by relocating portions of its production for the Navy’s Fleet Ballistic Missile program to Colorado. Lockheed Martin Space is the aerospace and defense giant’s space division. The project will be based at its headquarters in unincorporated Jefferson County near Waterton Canyon,…
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US Air Force set to launch 1st next-generation GPS satellite, built in Colorado
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UPDATE, 12/18: The launch of a new GPS satellite has been postponed for one day because of an unspecified problem with the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that will put the satellite in orbit. After months of delays, the U.S. Air Force is about to launch the first of a new generation of Colorado-built Global Positioning…
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NASA spacecraft built near Denver arrives at ancient asteroid, its 1st visitor
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – After a two-year chase, a NASA spacecraft arrived Monday at the ancient asteroid Bennu, its first visitor in billions of years. The robotic explorer Osiris-Rex pulled within 12 miles of the diamond-shaped space rock. It will get even closer in the days ahead and go into orbit around Bennu on Dec.…
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Colorado Business Roundtable names Joe Rice to its ’Inner Circle’
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Joe Rice, the director of government relations for Lockheed Martin Space Systems, is the latest addition to the Colorado Business Roundtable’s Inner Circle, a group including some of the state’s leading business authorities. Rice, a former Democratic state representative and former mayor of Glendale, is a colonel in the Army Reserve with five combat tours…
