Engineers designed an 'architected' reef that can mimic the wave-buffering effects of natural reefs while providing pockets for marine life. The sustainable and cost-saving structure could dissipate ...

Blue Origin and Sierra Space announced Orbital Reef in October 2021 as part of a partnership with Boeing, Redwire Space and several other companies and organizations. The station will ultimately ...

LOUISVILLE, Colo. & KENT, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Orbital Reef team, led by partners Sierra Space and Blue Origin, has successfully completed its System Definition Review (SDR) with NASA. The SDR ...

COLORADO SPRINGS—The Blue Origin and Sierra Space-led consortium developing the Orbital Reef commercial space station says it is on track to conduct the preliminary design review of the low Earth ...

Orbital Reef, a commercially owned and operated space station project currently in development, has cleared a key review by NASA. NASA's system definition review, which was conducted between mid-June ...

Back in October last year, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin announced plans to build an orbital station meant to advance both research and space tourism. Called Orbital Reef and developed together with Sierra ...

The Museum of Arts and Design marks 10 years of Margaret and Christine Wertheim's "Crochet Coral Reef" project, a vibrant response to the destruction of our ocean life. Installation view of ‘Crochet ...

LOUISVILLE, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Orbital Reef team, led by principal partners Sierra Space and Blue Origin, has successfully completed its Systems Requirements Review (SRR) in just three months ...

What you're looking at is a tool that could aid our coral ecosystems. (And it's made with 3D printing …) Human hands have brought our oceans to a crisis point, but these same hands have the power to ...

The beautiful, gnarled, nooked-and-crannied reefs that surround tropical islands serve as a marine refuge and natural buffer against stormy seas. But as the effects of climate change bleach and break ...