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Stoke Space

Stoke Space's rocket "hop" test
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Stoke Space fuels up with $100M in funding in quest to build fully reusable rockets

by Nate Bek on October 5, 2023October 8, 2023 at 11:27 am

Stoke Space announced Thursday that it raised $100 million, boosting the Kent, Wash.-based company’s quest to develop a new breed of fully reusable rockets and reach orbit by 2025. “This… Read More

Stoke Space's rocket "hop" test
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Stoke Space puts its test rocket through a successful hop in central Washington state

by Alan Boyle on September 17, 2023September 17, 2023 at 6:16 pm

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… Read More

Illustration: Stoke Space second stage in orbit
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Godspeed, Stoke Space! Rocket startup gets John Glenn’s launch pad at the Cape

by Alan Boyle on March 8, 2023March 9, 2023 at 10:03 am

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… Read More

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Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy leads $65M funding round for Stoke Space’s reusable rockets

by Alan Boyle on December 15, 2021December 15, 2021 at 4:06 am

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… Read More

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Stoke Space stakes its claim in the launch industry’s rush to fully reusable rockets

by Alan Boyle on September 3, 2021March 8, 2023 at 1:01 am

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… Read More

Injector test firing

Stoke Space and Sequoia Scientific win NASA funding to advance tech innovations

by Alan Boyle on May 14, 2021May 14, 2021 at 5:19 pm

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… Read More

Injector test firing

Stoke Space raises $9.1 million to create a new breed of reusable upper-stage rockets

by Alan Boyle on February 25, 2021February 25, 2021 at 11:08 pm

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… Read More

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Relativity and Reach, Stoke and Starfish: Blue Origin veterans spark space startups

by Alan Boyle on September 9, 2020September 10, 2020 at 10:22 am

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture turned 20 years old this week — and although the privately held company hasn’t yet put people into space, or put a… Read More

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