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Andy Lapsa went to the best aerospace engineering schools. He then worked very hard to help advance the development of some of the most advanced rocket engines in the world at Blue Origin. But in 2019, after a decade in the industry, he felt like the spaceflight future he was striving toward—rapidly reusable rockets—had not gotten much closer.

Andy Lapsa and Tom Feldman, former Blue Origin engineers and the founders of Stoke Space, are working to develop the first fully recyclable space rocket -- one that features a reusable first and second stage. Heres an excerpt from Ars Technicas exclusive report, written by Eric Berger: In the 20 ...

Spending in the commercial space industry has more than tripled in the past 15 years, and startups play a major role in the burgeoning industry.

Reusable rocket designer Stoke Space has raised $65 million in a series A funding round led by a Bill Gates-backed company! Check out the space baron.

Washington state-based launch company, Stoke Space Technologies, has raised $9.1 million in seed investments to develop a completely reusable rocket that the company claims will offer launch services 20 times cheaper than offerings today. The round was co-led by NFX and Y Combinator, Liquid2, Trevor Blackwell, Kyle Vogt, Charlie Songhurst, and others. SpaceX is able to land and reuse the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket, and Rocket Lab is working toward this as well, but Stoke aims to ha...

Stoke Space aims to take reusable rockets to new heights with $9M seed Many launch providers think reusability is the best way to lower the cost and delay involved in getting to space. SpaceX and Rocket Lab have shown reusable first stages, which take a payload to the edge of space — and now Stoke Space Technologies says it is making a reusable second stage, which will take that payload to orbit and beyond, and has raised a $9.1 million seed round to realize it. Designing a first stage that ...