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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.
propellant, space infrastructure, propellant depot: Unknown Defunct (2020) [228] Made In Space: 3D printing in ISS, in-space antenna systems, fiber optics Unknown Operational (2018) [229] Varda Space Industries: building products in space and bringing them back to earth (ex: ZBLAN, 3d printed organs) Unknown Operational (2021) [230] Deep Space ...
Before being reincorporated as Astra Space Inc. in 2016, Ventions, LLC was a small San Francisco based aerospace research and design firm with a 10+ year history developing aerospace technology in partnership with NASA [18] and DARPA. Ventions was founded in 2005 and located at 1142 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103.
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.
Conestoga I prepared for launch. 9 September 1982 – Conestoga I, a repurposed Minuteman second stage, is launched from Matagorda Island to an altitude of 309 km (192 miles) by Space Services Inc., becoming the first privately owned and operated rocket to reach space.
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 ]
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ABL Space Systems was founded in 2017 by Harry O'Hanley and Dan Piemont, former SpaceX and Morgan Stanley employees. Their RS-1 rocket has two stages. It offers a maximum capacity of 1,350 kg (2,980 lb) to low Earth orbit (LEO). [3] In 2018, ABL Space Systems signed a lease with Camden County, Georgia, for future operations in Spaceport Camden. [4]