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By Andy Lapsa, CEO and co-founder of Stoke When Tom Feldman and I founded Stoke in 2019, there were already something like 150 rocket startups. On the surface, the last thing the world needed was a company…

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Humanity’s population has grown at an extraordinary pace, pushing us closer to — and potentially beyond — the Earth’s environmental carrying capacity: the maximum number of people our planet can support without causing lasting harm to…

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By Brent Bradbury, VP Software, Stoke Stoke Space’s $260 million investment is about more than just reusable rockets: it is an investment in a new era of engineering productivity. Developing groundbreaking hardware isn’t just about innovative…

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Why We Created the World’s First Bulletproof Heat Shield At Stoke Space, we’re working on something that could change the way rockets—and access to space—work forever. It’s no secret that making rockets reusable is one of…

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