Blazers owner Paul Allen falls behind Richard Branson in billionaire space race

By Steve Wilhelm (original source Portland Business Journal)

“Virgin Group billionaire Richard Bransonjust got an early start over Paul Allen in the space launch business.

On Thursday, Branson’s LauncherOne company won a contract to launch up to 39 satellites for OneWeb Systems Inc., a British company planning a constellation of 700 internet satellites by 2019.

While most of those satellites are to be launched in groups by Europe’s Arianespace, the 39 could become a problem for Microsoft co-founder and entrepreneur Paul Allen and his Seattle-based Vulcan Aerospace.”

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