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  2. Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 9 - Wikipedia

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    Space Launch Complex 9 (SLC-9) is a planned launch pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, United States. Currently a greenfield, it is leased to Blue Origin as part of their plans to have a Western Range site for their New Glenn launch vehicle, joining Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral . [ 1 ]

  3. List of private spaceflight companies - Wikipedia

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    Biconic Space Vehicle LEO: New Glenn: Planned date not known Development Boeing: CST-100 Starliner: LEO: Multiple, initially Atlas V: 7 [16] 5.03 [17] 4.56 [17] 13,000 Solar panels Crewed: 5 June 2024 (Uncrewed: 20 December 2019) Operational Sierra Space: Dream Chaser Space System: LEO: Multiple, initially Vulcan Centaur: 7 [18] 9 [19] 11,300 ...

  4. Moon Express - Wikipedia

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    Moon Express (MoonEx; vehicle model prefix: MX) is an American privately held company formed in 2010 by a group of Silicon Valley and space entrepreneurs. It had the goal of winning the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize, and of ultimately mining the Moon for natural resources of economic value.

  5. Astra (American spaceflight company) - Wikipedia

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    Astra Space, Inc., formerly known as Ventions, LLC from 2005 - 2016, is an American space company based in Alameda, California, with facilities in Sunnyvale, California and Atwater, California. The company was initially an aerospace technology research firm that focused on SBIR contracts, developing small rocket engines for use on launch ...

  6. AstroForge - Wikipedia

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    AstroForge's ultimate goal in the field of asteroid mining is the extraction, refinement, and sale of platinum-group metals (PGMs) located within M-type asteroids near to Earth. These asteroids are expected to be quite small in comparison to main belt asteroids, being anywhere from around 20 to 300 meters in diameter.

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  8. Elon Musk has pledged to settle Mars. A prize-winning book ...

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    In 1967, we got the Outer Space Treaty through the United Nations, and that is the main document that governs space. It’s only some 2,000 words long. It’s only some 2,000 words long.

  9. Firefly Aerospace - Wikipedia

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    Firefly Alpha lifting off the pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base on September 2, 2021. The Alpha vehicle developed by Firefly Aerospace is an expendable launch vehicle capable of lifting 1,030 kg (2,270 lb) to low Earth orbit and 630 kg (1,390 lb) to Sun-synchronous orbit. Firefly's advertised launch price is US$15 million.