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Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Meet The New Zealand Company That's 3-D Printing Rocket Engines... And They Work An upstart New Zealand rocket company says it has found a way to drastically cut the cost of satellite launches: 3-D printing rocket components.   |
BusinessWeek
May 5, 2011
McGarry & Capaccio |
The Air Force Kicks Off a New Space Race Lockheed Martin and Boeing may lose from the Air Force's plan to open the $9.9 billion satellite launch business to competition. |
National Defense
October 2009
Sandra I. Erwin |
Startups Poised To Break into Defense Market A confluence of economic and technological factors is creating conditions for startups to break into the government's old-boy network of aerospace and defense suppliers, some experts contend. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket Will Take To The Skies Again Next Week CEO Elon Musk confirmed via Twitter that SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 rocket around December 19. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Report: $1.9 Billion Invested In Space Travel Startups Since 2014 Venture capital database CB Insights released the report, titled "Future of Frontier Tech," which also says that drone startups have raised $285 million since 2014 and virtual/augmented reality companies $1 billion. |
The Motley Fool
January 12, 2006
Rich Smith |
Boeing's Risky Win A satellite deal kicks off 2006 with a bang. But by 2008, will Boeing be stuck holding three orphaned satellites destined for a buyer that went bankrupt two years before the first unit was ever even put into orbit? Investors, take note. |
National Defense
April 2011
Stew Magnuson |
Desert Airport Becomes Home to New Breed of Space Entrepreneurs While there has been much consternation about the erosion of the space-industrial base in the United States, the facility shows that the field still attracts entrepreneurs who are enthralled by the glamour and challenge of space travel. |
National Defense
April 2011
Stew Magnuson |
It's Not All Bad News When It Comes to the Health of the U.S. Space Industrial Base The health and welfare of the companies that produce spacecraft, payloads, rockets and ground stations for everyone from NASA to intelligence agencies has been the source of much hand-wringing during the past few years. |
Popular Mechanics
June 19, 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
7 Expert Answers for How Big Business Will Spend Cash in Space At the first-ever Space Business Forum in New York, leading rocket scientists, military officers and even hedge-fund managers crunched the numbers to illuminate the future of the space industry. |
Entrepreneur
April 2005
Mark Henricks |
Space Cowboys High-profile entrepreneurs pursue the final frontier. |
Fast Company
Vivian Giang |
Why The Few Women Venture Capitalists Often Give Up Only 2.7% of all venture-backed companies have a woman CEO. That's 183 out of 6,517 companies or $1.5 billion out of the $50.8 billion invested between 2011 and 2013. |
The Motley Fool
May 24, 2011
Brian Stoffel |
Space Travel, Anyone? This could be the future of the aerospace industry. |
The Motley Fool
May 3, 2005
Brian Gorman |
Marriage of Convenience Lockheed Martin and Boeing to join forces on U.S. government rocket contracts. |
The Motley Fool
December 27, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Bezos: Up, Up, and Away! The Amazon founder is about to reach for the stars. His company, Blue Origin, will go head-to-head with Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic in seeking to take adventuresome tourists to the precipice of orbit before returning to Earth. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Report: Facebook Probably Will Not Launch Internet Satellites After All Facebook's secretive, ambitious plans to build satellites that would bring Internet service to the world's poorest countries has reportedly been cancelled. |
National Defense
June 2008
Breanne Wagner |
Low-Cost Space Launch Vehicles Await Liftoff A new generation of small rockets may fulfill the Air Force's goal of creating a market for low-cost space launches. |
National Defense
June 2009
Stew Magnuson |
New Satellites to Keep Watch Over Space-Based Systems Two new satellites may be launched later this year that will help the U.S. defense community better understand what is happening to the multi-million dollar spacecraft it depends on. |
National Defense
July 2011
Stew Magnuson |
Air Force Embraces Small Satellites As Budget Outlook Grows Dim With the federal budget expected to shrink in the coming years, Air Force officials are already looking at ways to maintain the capabilities they must deliver to the armed services. |
BusinessWeek
December 12, 2005
Stan Crock |
The Final Frontier At Costco Prices SpaceX aims to cut the frills and offer bargain satellite launches. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Burton H. Lee |
The Investor's Guide to Space How to make profits that are out of this world |
National Defense
July 2007
Stew Magnuson |
Pentagon Pushes for Smaller Satellites, Faster Launches The Roadrunner satellite helps break down barriers impeding the flow of information between commanders on the ground and spacecraft, and quickly replaces assets damaged in orbit. |
National Defense
July 2014
Stew Magnuson |
Costs, Benefits of RD-180 Rocket Engine Replacement Program Debated The U.S. national security space community was left wondering this spring whether a Russian company would continue to supply it with engines needed to launch heavy payloads on its Atlas rockets. |
Wired
April 2004
Gary Rivlin |
The Roots of Bust 2.0 Suddenly, venture capital is growing on trees. But the cash glut could crash the Valley again. |
Inc.
December 2004
Michelle Leder |
Main Street VCs Most venture capitalists prefer to be within an hour's drive of their investments, but that's beginning to change. Is a new breed of venture capital, coming soon to a town near you? |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
November 2005 |
Lockheed Martin Picks Sypris for Satellite Cards Engineers at Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems will use the cards in its A2100 commercial satellites and for various government programs. |
National Defense
June 2012
Stew Magnuson |
Adapter Could Help Air Force Get More Out of Its Launches Moog Space and Defense Group is offering an adapter that can be placed aboard Delta 4 or Atlas 5 rockets. |
National Defense
July 2014
Stew Magnuson |
Launch Contract Dispute Pits SpaceX Against Air Force, ULA A dispute between rocket-builder SpaceX and the Air Force over launch contracts came to the fore when the company's founder, Elon Musk announced a lawsuit directed at the service. |
BusinessWeek
April 21, 2011
Douglas MacMillan |
Educational Tech Gets a Second Look Venture funds are spending big on educational tech startups as broadband networks and digital devices reach more students. |
The Motley Fool
August 25, 2005 |
Venture Capitalists They're not in the news as much, but they're still around -- and important. |
Entrepreneur
July 2002
Tracy T. Lefteroff |
After The Flood With the flow of VC funding slowed to a trickle, let our list of the top 100 VC funds be your divining rod. |
The Motley Fool
March 25, 2011
Rich Smith |
Galactic Overlords Adopt American Orphan Boeing and Lockheed Martin turn to XCOR Aerospace. |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 21, 2005
Jeffrey L. Cruikshank |
Let's Start a Rocket Company! An example excerpted from the newly published Shaping the Waves: A History of Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School, and a Q&A with with its author. |
Entrepreneur
July 2003
Lefteroff et al. |
The Thrill of the Chase Nowadays, it seems venture capitalists are an endangered species, but your chances of finding VC funding are better than you think. We'll help you track down investors with our 3rd Annual VC 100. |
Entrepreneur
July 2003
David Worrell |
Bonus Round Taking on some venture debt after a round of VC can give you more bang for your buck. |
Wired
April 2001
Alex Markels |
The Next Wave Ships from Norway, rockets from Russia, techspertise from Seattle. Together, they slingshot satellites off a floating platform on the equator - and set the stage for a new kind of company, built on international brainpower... |
Bio-IT World
January 13, 2003
Michael Greeley |
What Do We Do Now? Like it or not, the supply of capital is an important ingredient in the continued development of the bio-IT industry. Appreciating and understanding the forces currently at work in the VC marketplace can only help in raising capital. |
National Defense
June 2012
Stew Magnuson |
Industry, Space Agencies Seek Ways To Lower Launch Costs In an age of austere federal budgets, the Air Force and National Reconnaissance Office are looking to reduce the spiraling cost of placing their heaviest satellites into space. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2009
David Schneider |
Iridium Will Host Science Payloads New satellites will give space and wattage for Earth-sensing experiments. |
The Motley Fool
June 9, 2010
Rich Smith |
In Space, Everyone Can Hear You Cheer Move over Boeing, and look out Lockheed Martin: There's a new rocket scientist in town, and its name is Space Exploration Technologies. |
Fast Company
February 2005
Jennifer Reingold |
Hondas in Space The ex-CEO of PayPal is spending a fortune to prove you can build rockets faster, cheaper, and better. Innovation, it seems, isn't always rocket science. |
Entrepreneur
July 2008
David Worrell |
It's Go Time When times are tough, look to non-bank lenders for venture debt. |
National Defense
April 2015
Stew Magnuson |
A New Rocket Engine by 2019? Air Force Says No; Aerojet Rocketdyne Says Yes Aerojet Rocketdyne recently completed hot-fire testing of a single-element main injector for the AR1 rocket engine that was completely built using additive manufacturing. |
Entrepreneur
August 2008
Tracy T. Lefteroff |
High Rollers Venture capitalists showed entrepreneurs the big bucks in 2007. Could one of our top VC firms be looking for a business like yours this time around? |
National Defense
July 2007
Breanne Wagner |
Experimental Rockets Boost Expectations of Lower Costs The Air Force is working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and NASA to develop simpler and less expensive launch vehicles. |
BusinessWeek
November 20, 2008 |
Vulnerable Computers NASA's networks and Web sites, built to be accessible to contractors, have suffered numerous intrusions. |
Investment Advisor
February 1, 2011
Jeff Joseph |
A Great (and Surprising) Venture Investment Source Many financial advisors are beginning to venture into venture. |
Bio-IT World
Jul/Aug 2006
Michael A. Greeley |
Monsoon of Capital The private equity markets, both venture capital and growth equity, while characterized by a number of established firms, continue to struggle with how best to finance early-stage, risky bio-IT companies. |
National Defense
January 2015
Stew Magnuson |
Air Force Space Programs on Hold as New Architecture Studied The Air Force is in the throes of conducting several studies that service officials say may lead to a radically new space architecture. Meanwhile, getting space system acquisition right is more important than ever. |
National Defense
April 2010
Sandra I. Erwin |
Can DARPA Rescue the Pentagon From Its Acquistion Doldrums? The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency launched a program last year to figure out how to build complex weapons five times faster than before. Now comes word that they also intend to revolutionize the way the military buys communications satellites. |
Entrepreneur
July 2002
Mark Henricks |
Answering the Call Trust corporations to know when the VC game is ready for new players. |
