Altius Space Machines Altius Space Machines Altius Space Machines is a seed-stage startup company that is developing a novel rendezvous and capture technology for uncooperative satellites. The company's products both enable, and are enabled by, the more recent lower-cost access to space epitomized by NewSpace launch companies such as SpaceX, Virgin Galactic and XCOR Aerospace. In July 2011, Altius Space Machines won first place in the "2011 NewSpace Business Plan Competition" in Silicon Valley, sponsored by the Space Frontier Foundation. Altius won a contract with DARPA in July 2012 to build a composite extensible robotic boom arm for the DARPA Phoenix project. They
The Settlement, British Virgin Islands and the island's airport, the small "Auguste George Airport" (airport code "NGD"), is about 1 mile northwest of the town. In 1672, Anegada was made part of the British colony Antigua and has been under British control ever since. San Diego Zoo Global has been running the Anegada Iguana Project since 1992, with the Iguana Headstart Facility being opened in 2003. Today, tourism is the main income source for the town even though commercial fishing also is a substantial business. The Settlement, British Virgin Islands The Settlement is the main and only town on Anegada in the British Virgin Islands