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Can companies like SpaceX finally bring broadband to thousands of rural Coloradans?

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is coming to Colorado. Sort of. The California aerospace firm was among the winners in the $9.2 billion federal broadband auction aimed at ending the digital divide in rural America.  SpaceX, short for Space Exploration Technologies Corp., received a $39.7 million piece of Colorado’s allotment to serve more than 19,000 households or […]

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Astronaut LIFE: Colorado’s Sierra Nevada preps an inflatable space house for NASA testing

Astronauts heading to the moon within the next five years could very well live in the comfort of a three-floor, four “bedroom” inflatable space house, designed right here on the Front Range. Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Space Systems division — known primarily for the Dream Chaser space plane — will soon send its inflatable habitat prototype […]