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...A third space company, Launcher Inc, recently acquired by Vast, a private space station company, has bought Virgin Orbit’s launch site and lease in the Mojave desert for $2.7mn....
...Forwarded from Sifted — the European start-up week French entrepreneur Barbara Belvisi is building sustainable habitats, starting in the Mojave Desert in California....
...one would shout as we careened down the Mojave Desert, screaming about our past lives and love affairs gone wrong....
...The goal was to build a self-driving vehicle that could make it round a 150-mile route in California’s Mojave desert....
...Scaled Composites, a Mojave-based group founded by space pioneer Burt Rutan built the craft destroyed in the 2014 crash. The Spaceship Company has also now taken over the testing programme....
...About an hour before WhiteKnightTwo, SpaceShipTwo’s mother ship, took off to carry the craft into the Mojave Desert sky on Friday, Virgin Galactic tweeted that it was looking forward to a “Halloween treat...
...“We are determined to honour the bravery of the pilots and teams here by learning from this tragedy,” he told reporters gathered in Mojave, near the crash site....
...The listing arrived in the midst of a crisis for the Virgin Group, after the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo broke up high above the Mojave Desert, killing one pilot and seriously injuring another....
...The publication of Virgin America’s listing prospectus comes as US air crash investigators sought to establish what caused SpaceShipTwo to break up over the Mojave desert in California, killing one of the...
...Ivanpah, which is under construction in the Mojave desert, has raised some $2.2bn in debt and equity commitments, including a $1.6bn loan guaranteed by the Department of Energy and a $168m equity commitment...
...The Mojave desert in the US south-west might seem a strange place to look for the effects of the eurozone’s economic crisis....
...These first vehicles’ flights will be suborbital, but prospects for the successful candidates – who will at first be based in Mojave, California, and then at Spaceport America in New Mexico – could be out...
...VantagePoint, DFJ and Google have invested in BrightSource, which is developing the $2.2bn Ivanpah solar thermal plant in the Mojave desert....
...If completed as planned, fields of mirrors in California’s Mojave Desert will reflect sunlight onto three massive towers....
...Molycorp was in 2002 forced to close its Mountain Pass mine in California’s Mojave Desert – the world’s largest rare-earths mine until the late 1990s – after environmental problems and price-cutting by China...
...His strategy was the same as Lockheed’s “skunk works”, which developed the U2 and the stealth aircraft; or Scaled Composites, the company that designed the first private spaceship in the desert town of Mojave...
...How long continuously does your wife cry after she sees Mojave? The record was seven and a half weeks.”...
...They have gone blind in the Mojave dessert, and fled the Appalachian redneck home. They have one foot in Jamaica or Manila or Iran or Iraq....
...The pot went to Mojave Aerospace Ventures in 2004, after the successful flights of SpaceShipOne....
...The decision frees up a proposal by Mojave, a BAE business unit, to transfer two A-4N Skyhawk aircraft to the German air force....
...The arms deals affected by the congressional scrutiny include a proposal by Mojave, a BAE business unit, to transfer two A-4N Skyhawk aircraft to the German air force....
...The reusable spacecraft, backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, was launched mid-air from a carrier aeroplane and returned to a landing strip in the Mojave desert in California....
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