Tag: Stoke Space
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Stoke Space stakes its claim in the launch industry’s rush to fully reusable rockets
Stoke Space puts its “three-pack” of thrust chambers through a hot-fire test. (Stoke Space Photo) In just six months, Kent, Wash.-based Stoke Space Technologies has turned a blank stretch of ground in Moses Lake, Wash., into a bridgehead for building a fully reusable rocket optimized for satellite launches. “It was barren desert as recently as…
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Stoke Space and Sequoia Scientific win NASA funding to advance tech innovations
Stoke Space Technologies’ second-stage engine injector undergoes a test firing at the company’s component test facility. (Stoke Photo) Two Washington state companies have won grants of up to $750,000 each from NASA to take space-related technologies they’re already working on to the next stage of development. The awards to Renton-based Stoke Space Technologies and Bellevue-based…
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Stoke Space raises $9.1 million to create a new breed of reusable upper-stage rockets
A second-stage engine injector blazes at Stoke’s component test facility. (Stoke Space Technologies Photo) Stoke Space Technologies, the Renton, Wash.-based company founded by veterans of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture, has attracted $9.1 million in seed investments for extending rocket reusability to new frontiers. The first goal will be to develop a new kind…
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Relativity and Reach, Stoke and Starfish: Blue Origin veterans spark space startups
During his time at Blue Origin, Andrew Lapsa won the AIAA Liquid Propulsion Young Professional Award in 2017. Now he’s the CEO of his own startup, called Stoke Space. (Blue Origin Photo via Twitter) Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture turned 20 years old this week — and although the privately held company…