Bigelow Aerospace

On https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigelow_Aerospace they talk about
Bigelow Aerospace in the past tense.
"Bigelow Aerospace was an American space technology startup company
active 1998–2020 that manufactured and developed expandable space
station modules."
But that encyclopedia entry is not clear about the demise of Bigelow
Aerospace and Wikipedia being crowdsourced, it is prone to errors and
pranks.

So does anyone know about the status of Bigelow Aerospace?


Alain Fournier

On Friday, July 17, 2020 at 4:26:10 PM UTC-7, Alain Fournier wrote:
On https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigelow_Aerospace they talk about
Bigelow Aerospace in the past tense.
"Bigelow Aerospace was an American space technology startup company
active 1998–2020 that manufactured and developed expandable space
station modules."
But that encyclopedia entry is not clear about the demise of Bigelow
Aerospace and Wikipedia being crowdsourced, it is prone to errors and
pranks.

So does anyone know about the status of Bigelow Aerospace?


Alain Fournier




Everything's up in the air right now. To early to tell how it's going to
turn out.

"Nevada-based Bigelow Aerospace, which has long aimed to set up outposts in
Earth orbit and on the moon, let 20 employees go last week and then laid off all
68 of its remaining workers on Monday (March 23), SpaceNews reported.

Sources told SpaceNews' Jeff Foust that the moves were caused by a "perfect
storm of problems," including the coronavirus pandemic. (On March 20, Nevada
Gov. Steve Sisolak ordered all "nonessential" businesses in the state to close,
in an attempt to slow the virus's spread.).

A Bigelow Aerospace spokesperson confirmed the layoffs to Foust but told him the
company planned to hire workers back after things returned to normal. But other
sources felt the layoffs were likely to be permanent, Foust wrote."

See:

https://www.space.com/bigelow-aerosp...ronavirus.html

On 2020-07-17 10:51 PM, wrote:
On Friday, July 17, 2020 at 4:26:10 PM UTC-7, Alain Fournier wrote:
On https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigelow_Aerospace they talk about
Bigelow Aerospace in the past tense.
[snip]

So does anyone know about the status of Bigelow Aerospace?

[snip]
Everything's up in the air right now. To early to tell how it's going to
turn out.

"Nevada-based Bigelow Aerospace, which has long aimed to set up outposts in
Earth orbit and on the moon, let 20 employees go last week and then laid off all
68 of its remaining workers on Monday (March 23), SpaceNews reported.

[snip]

Putting the two previous newsgroup posts together:

Maybe Bigelow can offer its IP to Sierra Nevada Corp. for that new US
military space outpost the Pentagon wants it to build?

Dave