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BBC And YouWeb Bets On HTML5 Games; Invests Millions In Mobile Game Creation...

Spaceport.io, an HTML5, mobile game creation platform, has raised a strategic round of funding from a number of investors including BBC Worldwide and YouWeb, a previous investor. While financial terms...

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Facebook Acqhires Team From HTML5 Game Platform Spaceport.io, Which Will Keep...

Spaceport.io has just announced that part of its team, but not its technology, is moving to Facebook, and the social network has confirmed the talent deal to me. But instead of shutting down,...

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BBC And YouWeb Bets On HTML5 Games; Invests Millions In Mobile Game Creation...

Spaceport.io, an HTML5, mobile game creation platform, has raised a strategic round of funding from a number of investors including BBC Worldwide and YouWeb, a previous investor. While financial terms...

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Facebook Acqhires Team From HTML5 Game Platform Spaceport.io, Which Will Keep...

Spaceport.io has just announced that part of its team, but not its technology, is moving to Facebook, and the social network has confirmed the talent deal to me. But instead of shutting down,...

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Arizona Votes To Build Spaceport For Space Ballooning

The high altitude balloon company World View Enterprises reached an important milestone today, when Arizona’s Pima County voted to award them a $14.5 million deal to build a spaceport. Jane Poynter,...

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Dreaming of Mars, the startup Relativity Space gets its first launch site on...

3D-printing the first rocket on Mars. That’s the goal Tim Ellis and Jordan Noone set for themselves when they founded Los Angeles-based Relativity Space in 2015. At the time they were working from a...

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Virgin Orbit seeks to launch satellites from the UK by 2020

One of Richard Branson’s space companies (yes, he has more than one) is looking to bring satellite launches to British soil, with a new Virgin Spaceport based in Cornwall. The project now has buy-in...

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Rocket Lab successfully launches seventh Electron rocket for ‘Make It Rain’...

Private rocket launch startup Rocket Lab has succeeded in launching its ‘Make It Rain’ mission, which took off yesterday from the company’s private Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand. On board Rocket...

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Watch 5,000 rockets attempt a world record simultaneous launch to celebrate...

Fifty years ago today, at 9:32 AM ET, Apollo 11 took off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a Saturn V rocket. At 9:32 AM ET this morning in 2019, you can watch as the U.S. Space & Rocket...

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Virgin Orbit signs agreement to launch small satellites for the UK’s Royal...

Virgin Orbit, the small satellite launch company backed by billionaire Richard Branson, has signed an initial agreement to develop small satellite launch capabilities for the U.K.’s Royal Air Force...

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Scottish spaceport closer to launch after land lease signed

Plans to open a new spaceport in Sutherland in Scotland have moved closer to final approval: The real estate companies working on the deal have signed a 75-year lease for the land to be used for Space...

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Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket will go reusable, with the company aiming for...

Private rocket launch startup and SpaceX competitor Rocket Lab made a big announcement today: It’ll be looking to re-use the first stage of its Electron rockets, returning them to Earth with a...

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Rocket Lab successfully launches rideshare rocket with two experimental USAF...

Rocket Lab has successfully launched its eighth mission, an Electron rocket rideshare flight carrying four satellites to orbit for various clients. The Electron launched from Rocket Lab’s Launch...

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Rocket Lab moves closer to opening US launch facility with landing pad...

Rocket Lab is nearing completion of its second launch facility — its first in the U.S., located on Wallops Island in Virginia. The company announced that it has finished installing the launchpad at...

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Rocket Lab’s new 5-year FAA license will help it streamline its rocket launch...

Rocket Lab has received a new 5-year Launch Operator License from the Federal Aviation Administration, which grants it permission to do multiple launches of its Electron rocket from its LC-1 launch...

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Here’s the first look inside Orbex’s Scotland rocket factory

European private launch startup Orbex is getting ready to start actually launching payloads aboard its own rockets, and it’s pulling back the curtains to give a look at the factory it’s using to build...

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Rocket Lab to open a third launch pad — its second in New Zealand

Small-satellite launch company Rocket Lab just officially declared its second launch pad open, but it has already broken ground on a third. The new one will be located in New Zealand on the Mahia...

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Rocket Lab to open a new combined HQ, mission control and production facility...

Rocket Lab is expanding its U.S. footprint, alongside the opening of its first launch site on Wallops Island, Va. The rocket launch startup will open a new corporate headquarters in Long Beach, Calif....

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SpaceX cautions on launch regulation that outpaces innovation

During the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) 23rd annual Commercial Space Transportation Conference in Washington, D.C., one panel focused on the changing regulatory environment when it comes to...

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Does the US have too many spaceports, or too few?

There are more licensed private spaceports in the United States than you might guess — but depending on who you ask, there aren’t nearly enough. Last year saw new records set regarding the size and...

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