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Sierra Space informed about 165 employees and an unknown number of contractors that their jobs are ending.

LOUISVILLE, Colo. — Sierra Space is laying off many employees and contractors after completing the construction of its first Dream Chaser spacecraft.

The Louisville-based company, which employed about 2,200 people nationwide, informed about 165 employees and an unknown number of contract workers this week that their jobs were ending.

News of the jobs cuts was first reported by CNBC and confirmed by a company spokesperson.

The layoffs come just after Sierra Space sent its first completed Dream Chaser spacecraft off to a NASA testing facility ahead of the space plane’s first launch, which is targeting an April liftoff.

Read the full story at Denver Business Journal.

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