Re: THE MOTHER SHIP

Awesome! Must be fun to be filthy rich and build stuff like that. ;-) I hope Branson doesn't end up like Hughes.

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this is huge
significantly huge
2009 the space ship gets finished


Scaled Composites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Scaled Composites (often abbreviated as Scaled), formerly the Rutan
Aircraft Factory, is a company currently owned by Northrop Grumman that
is located at the Mojave Spaceport, Mojave, California, United States and
is headed by aircraft designer Burt Rutan. Prior to acquisition by
Northrop Grumman, the company was founded to develop experimental
aircraft, but now focuses on designing and developing concept craft and
prototype fabrication processes for aircraft and other vehicles.
Company history · Aircraft projects · Non-aircraft work



SpaceDev Inc. (SPDV.OB)
SpaceDev, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the
conception, design, development, manufacture, integration, sale, and
operation of space technology systems, subsystems, products, and
services. It focuses on the commercial and military development of small
satellites and related subsystems, and hybrid rocket propulsion for space
and launch vehicles, as well as subsystems that enable critical
spacecraft functions comprising pointing solar arrays and communication
antennas, and restraining, deploying and actuating moving spacecraft
components. The company also engages in the design, manufacture, and sale
of mechanical and electromechanical subsystems and components for
spacecraft, as well as manufacture of various products for small and
large spacecraft, which include paraffin actuators, hinges, battery
bypass switches, bi-axis gimbals, flat plate gimbals, solar array
pointing mechanisms, restraint devices, thermal switches, thermal
louvers, and cover systems; and design and development of deployable
space structures and other structural subsystems. SpaceDev, Inc. serves
various groups ranging from domestic and international commercial
spacecraft to civil spacecraft companies, as well as defense spacecraft;
and non-space customers, including aerospace, maritime, educational
institutions, and industrial customers. The company was founded in 1997
and is based in Poway, California.

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