Tag: Stoke Space
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Stoke Space ignites its ambitious main engine for the first time
On Tuesday, Stoke Space announced the firing of its first stage rocket engine for the first time earlier this month, briefly igniting it for about two seconds. The company declared the June 5 test a success because the engine performed nominally and will be fired up again soon. “Data point one is that the engine…
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Stoke Space ignites its ambitious main engine for the first time
On Tuesday, Stoke Space announced the firing of its first stage rocket engine for the first time earlier this month, briefly igniting it for about two seconds. The company declared the June 5 test a success because the engine performed nominally and will be fired up again soon. “Data point one is that the engine…
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Stoke Space hops its upper stage, leaping toward a fully reusable rocket
At an airfield in Eastern Washington on Sunday, the small launch company Stoke Space flew its upper stage for the first time. The flight was, admittedly, rather modest. The second-stage rocket only ascended to about 30 feet (9 meters) and traveled just several feet down range. The entire flight was over in 15 seconds. And…
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Stoke Space puts its test rocket through a successful hop in central Washington state
Stoke Space’s Hopper2 developmental rocket vehicle fires its engine during a test “hop.” (Stoke Space Photo) A four-year-old Seattle-area startup called Stoke Space executed a successful up-and-down test of its “Hopper” developmental rocket vehicle today, marking a major milestone in its quest to create a fully reusable launch system. Hopper2’s 15-second flight took place at…
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Godspeed, Stoke Space! Rocket startup gets John Glenn’s launch pad at the Cape
An artist’s conception shows Stoke Space’s reusable second stage, equipped with a regeneratively cooled heatshield. (Stoke Space Illustration) Kent, Wash.-based Stoke Space says it’s won the go-ahead to take over the Florida launch complex where John Glenn began the trip that made him the first American in orbit in 1962. That’s the upshot of the…
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Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy leads $65M funding round for Stoke Space’s reusable rockets
Stoke Space puts its “three-pack” of thrust chambers through a hot-fire test. (Stoke Space Photo) Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the multibillion-dollar clean-tech initiative created by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, is leading a $65 million funding round to back Kent, Wash.-based Stoke Space’s effort to create a new breed of fully reusable rockets — and believe it…
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Stoke Space stakes its claim in the launch industry’s rush to fully reusable rockets
Stoke Space puts its “three-pack” of thrust chambers through a hot-fire test. (Stoke Space Photo) In just six months, Kent, Wash.-based Stoke Space Technologies has turned a blank stretch of ground in Moses Lake, Wash., into a bridgehead for building a fully reusable rocket optimized for satellite launches. “It was barren desert as recently as…
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Stoke Space and Sequoia Scientific win NASA funding to advance tech innovations
Stoke Space Technologies’ second-stage engine injector undergoes a test firing at the company’s component test facility. (Stoke Photo) Two Washington state companies have won grants of up to $750,000 each from NASA to take space-related technologies they’re already working on to the next stage of development. The awards to Renton-based Stoke Space Technologies and Bellevue-based…
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Stoke Space raises $9.1 million to create a new breed of reusable upper-stage rockets
A second-stage engine injector blazes at Stoke’s component test facility. (Stoke Space Technologies Photo) Stoke Space Technologies, the Renton, Wash.-based company founded by veterans of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture, has attracted $9.1 million in seed investments for extending rocket reusability to new frontiers. The first goal will be to develop a new kind…
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Relativity and Reach, Stoke and Starfish: Blue Origin veterans spark space startups
During his time at Blue Origin, Andrew Lapsa won the AIAA Liquid Propulsion Young Professional Award in 2017. Now he’s the CEO of his own startup, called Stoke Space. (Blue Origin Photo via Twitter) Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture turned 20 years old this week — and although the privately held company…