December 12, 2024 – Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire – Stoke Space successfully hotfired its first-stage rocket engine on a new vertical test stand at the company’s Moses Lake, Wash., facility on Wednesday in what was called “a…
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November 26, 2024 – ALAN BOYLE / GeekWire – Like two of the world’s best-known billionaires, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, Stoke Space CEO Andy Lapsa is passionate about making spaceships as reusable as airplanes. “Part of the big thesis…
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November 17, 2024 – Dominic Gates / Seattle Times – The countdown to launch has begun for a small Washington state company developing something long dreamed of in the space industry. Andy Lapsa, co-founder and CEO…
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May 15, 2024 – Aashna Shah / Bloomberg – Many VC firms, like Balerion, are drawn to startups created by former employees of SpaceX, Blue Origin or Anduril Industries, a defense technology firm. Andy Lapsa, 41, worked…
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., April 11, 2024 – Guy Norris / Aviation Week – Startup Stoke Space has begun tests of the full-flow staged combustion rocket engine that will power the first stage of its reusable Nova…
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January 17, 2024 – George Downs / Wall Street Journal – While SpaceX has made huge advancements in landing and relaunching fairings and boosters, it is yet to create an entirely reusable system. Startup Stoke Space…
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