Sentences with phrase «rocket company space»

He is co-founder of the rocket company Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX).

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In March, the company inked a contract with NASA to use the Stennis Space Center for rocket tests.

Gilliland notes private company Solara bested the government - funded Human Genome Project by hitting important milestones first, and Elon Musk's SpaceX found a way to send rockets into space for a fifth the cost of a NASA launch.

CNBC's Morgan Brennan talks with Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith about the company's new engine for its latest orbital rocket and new opportunities in space exploration.

While rocket building and space tourism are exciting to Smith, Blue Origin, at its core, is «a propulsion company,» he said.

The space company's Falcon 9 rocket is now scheduled to launch on Thursday at 1:35 a.m. Eastern.

SpaceX, the rocket company founded by tech mogul Elon Musk, is poised to make good on its promise to slash the cost of launching things into space.

Martin Ross, another of the paper's authors, who works at the Aerospace Corp. in El Segundo, Calif., explains that hybrid motors favoured by space tourism companies are safer, cheaper to run, and quicker to refuel than the liquid or solid rocket boosters that have dominated rocketry thus far.

The Air Force said that Thursday's launch was the X-37B program's fifth space flight and the first to be sent aloft on a rocket by Elon Musk's private space cargo company SpaceX.

Yet, SpaceX — the spaceflight company created by Telsa founder and PayPal co-founder Elon Musk — had imagined a way to drastically cut the cost of launching anything into space: simply make the rocket re-usable.

Richard Branson's space company on Thursday completed its first rocket - powered test flight since 2014.

When Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of electric - car company Tesla, founded SpaceX back in 2002, he probably didn't envision that his company, which designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft, would be responsible for delivering better coffee to astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS).

Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin rocket company, meanwhile, is squaring off with Richard Branson's startup, Virgin Galactic, to offer tourists short hops into space.

With all the innovations in space travel, Bigelow believes at least one rocket - powered transportation company will be operational by 2018.

The company has already reached orbit, but with a smaller rocket that is only capable of delivering satellites to space.

That's more rockets than other country or space company in the world, including the rocket juggernaut Russia, who has launched 11 rockets so far this year.

The companies in the Kensho Space Index are focused on space - related activities as a principal component of their business strategy, building rockets, launch vehicles, satellites and their parts and subsysSpace Index are focused on space - related activities as a principal component of their business strategy, building rockets, launch vehicles, satellites and their parts and subsysspace - related activities as a principal component of their business strategy, building rockets, launch vehicles, satellites and their parts and subsystems.

After liftoff, the company's Dragon spacecraft separated from its Falcon 9 rocket and attached to the space station on Apr. 4.

Now the rocket company, led by Elon Musk, is on the verge of passing another important landmark: launching a used one back into space.

Musk tweeted on Friday that Tesla's official Facebook page should «definitely» be deleted, and it promptly was, along with the page of his rocket company, Space Exploration Technologies Corp..

The space services company suspended Falcon 9 flights while it investigates why the rocket burst into flames on Sept. 1.

With a rocket - powered test flight, the billionaire's space transportation company moves closer to its goal of shuttling tourists into space by 2014.

The companies in the Kensho Space Index design and build rockets, satellites, launch vehicles and their systems.

The leading company poised to profit from the new space race is Musk's SpaceX, which has been among the leaders in launching reusable rockets and lowering costs.

Bezos, founder of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post, also heads up the Blue Origin private space company, which successfully launched a rocket on Sunday.

There are many remarkable aspects to SpaceX: for instance, the way it has challenged accepted rocket manufacture by making rockets for a fraction of the cost; the way it has become the first private entity — rather than a country — to successfully launch spacecraft into orbit and then return; the way it went from an idea in Musk's head to a company that resupplies the International Space Station and that hopes to soon ferry astronauts back and forth.

Musk, whose interests span electric cars, solar power and space rockets, isn't interested in commercially developing the idea, so a number of companies, including HTT, have pounced on it.

In 2002, before the sale of PayPal even went through, Musk started voraciously reading about rocket technology, and later that year, with $ 100 million, he started one of the most unthinkable and ill - advised ventures of all time: a rocket company called SpaceX, whose stated purpose was to revolutionize the cost of space travel in order to make humans a multi-planetary species by colonizing Mars with at least a million people over the next century.

PT Scientists is aiming to launch the mission with a Falcon 9 rocket from Elon Musk's space exploration company SpaceX in the first quarter of 2019, according to Bohme.

The company is now looking at selling space on the rockets during test flights to accommodate experiments and researches.

His next project: SpaceX, a closely held rocket company that was tapped by NASA to take over space shuttle's role of resupplying the International Space Staspace shuttle's role of resupplying the International Space StaSpace Station.

Let's just say Bezos, founder of the Blue Origin space company and fellow billionaire, wasn't impressed with the Falcon 9 orbital rocket landing back on Earth.

Elon Musk, the man behind Tesla and SpaceX, believes the same thing, which is why his company has been working hard on reusable rockets designed to cut the cost of traveling through space on a regular basis.

Amazon C.E.O. Jeff Bezos's commercial space - flight company, Blue Origin, successfully launched and landed a rocket ship at its launch site in West Texas on Monday.

Mr. Musk has also served as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Technology Officer and Chairman of Space Exploration Corporation, a company which is developing and launching advanced rockets for satellite and eventually human transportation, since May 2002, and as Chairman of SolarCity, a solar installation company, since July 2006.

While Musk discussed space travel possibilities that extend far into the future, he also mentioned some of the systems that the company is currently developing, including the reusable rocket test this week.

The private space company says the rocket, called Falcon Heavy, is the most powerful rocket in use today.

Chief Executive Elon Musk tweeted Saturday that the Hawthorne space company is targeting Feb. 6 for the demonstration launch of its heavy - lift rocket.

The company has worked to build reusable rockets for over five years, with the intention of bringing down the costs of space travel.

Stratasys (NASDAQ: SSYS) sounds like a name that should belong to a space rocket company, but in fact, Stratasys is one of the biggest names in 3D printing (and the name we have been following here at The Motley Fool the longest).

It's a great company, but it's nowhere near as sexy as a space telescope or microgravity research or rockets.

One of the first to offer congratulations to Elon Musk and SpaceX for nailing a rocket landing was Jeff Bezos, fellow billionaire rocketeer who founded his own space company, Blue Origin, in 2000, a couple of years before Musk started SpaceX.

The commercial space industry has taken enormous strides in recent years, with much of the buzz centered around private launch companies, reusable rockets, and innovative satellite applications.

The Houston area is now a hub for commercial space ventures including SpaceX, Sierra Nevada Corp, and Ad Astra Rocket Company (AARC)-- who are working to develop advanced plasma rocket propulsion using a concept which has been in development by the company's CEO sinceRocket Company (AARC)-- who are working to develop advanced plasma rocket propulsion using a concept which has been in development by the company's CEO sincCompany (AARC)-- who are working to develop advanced plasma rocket propulsion using a concept which has been in development by the company's CEO sincerocket propulsion using a concept which has been in development by the company's CEO sinccompany's CEO since 1979.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Reuters)- Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos said on Wednesday he is selling about $ 1 billion worth of the internet retailer's stock annually to fund his Blue Origin rocket company, which aims to launch paying passengers on 11 - minute space rides starting next year.

If you're wondering what AR rockets have to do with the company's main business (the news), here's the connection: USA Today Network will provide context about the launches via reporters from its publication Florida Today, which covers the state's Space Coast.

The success of the private company's reusable rockets could be a game - changer for space exploration and weather forecasting: With a price tag of about $ 62 million per rocket, reuse can dramatically bring down the costs of a launch.

SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, headed by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, has been in the spotlight with recent test flights of its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon space capsule, which the company hopes to use to run a space taxi service for NASA astronauts to the ISS (New Scientist, 18 December 2010, p 12).

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of private spaceflight company Blue Origin and founder and CEO of Amazon.com, announced today that Blue Origin will make Florida's Space Coast its home port for reusable rocket launches.

Later that year, when the company won the $ 10 million Ansari X Prize for becoming the first commercial organization to launch a reusable, manned rocket ship into space twice within a two - week period, Congress approved a phased approach to regulations for private manned spaceflight, a move that was intended to encourage investment in the field.