Sentences with phrase «space launch companies»

By contrast, United Launch Alliance (ULA), the joint Boeing / Lockheed Martin space launch company, has flown 124 missions in 12 years and has not lost a single payload.

Not exact matches

Bezos also has interests outside of Amazon, including investments in his privately owned space company Blue Origin, which successfully launched its first spacecraft in 2015, and The Washington Post, the newspaper he bought in 2013.

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.

In each of my former positions, I assumed entrepreneurial - type roles, whether that be managing product launches or guiding brand innovation for large companies in the food, credit - card service and automotive space.

Launching your startup in a shared space is energizing but when your company grows up, the time comes to move out.

In the years since selling the label he founded, Branson, who is currently attempting to make commercial space travel a reality, would go on to launch some of the world's most innovative companies.

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.

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.

For Moon Express and any other space company, the key to sustainability is getting the cost of launches down.

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).

To address this «big problem,» the company, which is owned by Ebay, has enlisted the Space Tourism Society and the SETI Institute to help it launch PayPal Galactic (yes, that's the real name), an initiative to devise solutions.

So far this year, the company has successfully completed four launches, including a resupply mission to the International Space Station in February, as well as placing satellites into orbit on behalf of two commercial customers.

No mere observer of the start - up process, Lewis launched his own company with $ 200 while in college.He operated from his dorm for two years before relocating to a space sandwiched between a sewage - treatment plant and a nuclear - dump site.

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.

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

Everything: Live in a commune, create a magazine, buy a nightclub, breed budgerigars, build a recording studio, start a business, crash that business, build a train company, launch a space - tourism company, start a racing team, create a cosmetics line, travel around the world in a hot air balloon and live on a private island.

In the mobile gaming space, which the Japanese company entered as late as 2015 with a partnership with DeNA, Nintendo found success in 2016, first with the successful launch of the Niantic - developed Pokemon Go mobile game.

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

That's an oxymoron,» said one source, referencing the newly launched Thinx Foundation, the company's nonprofit arm that seeks to provide safe spaces for girls in India and Sri Lanka.

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.

But, he didn't stop there as he subsequently launched an airline, Virgin Atlantic Airways; a phone company, Virgin Mobile; and, most recently, Virgin Galactic, a space tourism company.

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.

Still, while other companies like Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic and Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin are planning much of their business around space flights for the super wealthy, SpaceX's model is primarily to serve as a vehicle for scientific missions, satellite launches, and trips to the International Space Staspace flights for the super wealthy, SpaceX's model is primarily to serve as a vehicle for scientific missions, satellite launches, and trips to the International Space StaSpace Station.

Susan Tynan, founder and CEO of Framebridge, an online framing company based in Lanham, Md., set up her team of five at a co-working space when she launched in 2014 but realized almost immediately it was not right for the daily operations of her business.

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.

Motivated now by a burning desire to avenge his treatment and to win recognition for his originality, he launched a company that competed in the same space as his former employer.

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.

As the company's CTO for 5 years, he took the company from the drawing board to having launched more satellites into space than any other company in history, completely transforming the space industry along the way.

Last year, Blue Origin entered the running for a potential wave of funding to be given by the U.S. Air Force, rivaling other space companies both big and small, including the aforementioned SpaceX, United Launch Alliance, and Orbital ATK.

We occupied office space in 2011, and earlier this year we launched NEA Studio to support entrepreneurial designers as they make the leap to company formation and funding.

Entrepreneurs launching companies in the space come from diverse backgrounds.

Moon Express is the first company in history to contract multiple launches for space exploration missions.

Take Business Insider's recent article on millennial drinkers for example: These companies are dealing with a new market, and they're struggling to envision and launch ecommerce strategies for this space.

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.

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

While speaking at the 33rd Space Symposium in Colorado, SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell, revealed that the company's spend on the lift - off was «substantially less than half» the cost, which it would have incurred for a new first - stage Falcon 9 launch.

He's a serial entrepreneur, launched the VAIO for SONY, worked as an Entrepreneur In Residence for a $ 5B fund where he grew one portfolio company from a valuation of $ 50M to $ 300M in five months and is currently a thought leader in the Corporate Venture space.

What's more, SpaceX was facing the problem of funding their initial mission to Mars: While reports in 2016 estimated that the cost to launch one Red Dragon to the Red Planet would total around $ 320M, SpaceX had not announced actual mission costs or how the company intended to pay for this deep - space journey.

The trip included VIP tours of a number of leading entrepreneurial space companies (including some of our portfolio companies), a high - altitude balloon launch with Stanford's Student Spaceflight Initiative, and special guests including Pete Worden and Steve Jurvetson.

As interest and activity within the commercial space landscape began to pick up with the new millennium, companies like Lockheed and Orbital — with their industry connections and improving launch records — had, perhaps, an inherent «leg - up» within the nascent marketplace.

By the early 1990s, private aerospace companies had recognized the untapped commercial potential of space and were experimenting with developing their own truly commercial launch vehicles.

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 Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act (CSLCA) provides commercial space ventures with stable industry regulations — and encourages private sector investment in space compaSpace Launch Competitiveness Act (CSLCA) provides commercial space ventures with stable industry regulations — and encourages private sector investment in space compaspace ventures with stable industry regulations — and encourages private sector investment in space compaspace companies.

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.

SHEBOYGAN, WI — April 11, 2016 — Stoelting Foodservice, a division of the Vollrath Company, a leading manufacturer of foodservice equipment and smallwares, has been recognized with one of the industry's most prestigious awards for its newly launched AutoVend system, a frozen soft - serve vending machine that is designed to generate revenue with a significantly lower investment in retail floor space, operations and staffing.