jim@pnet01.cts.COM (Jim Bowery) (03/08/89)
textbell!merch!cpe!hal6000!trsvax!reyn@bellcore.com writes: >Just out of curiousity, how does a commercial firm get EXCLUSIVE rights to >a technology developed for the U.S. Air Force? That's the question I've been asking of quite a few people and I have yet to get a clear answer. If anyone knows how E'Prime Aerospace managed to get exclusive rights to MX booster technology, please leave a message on the net or to me in email. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Bowery Phone: 619/295-8868 PO Box 1981 Join the Mark Hopkins Society! La Jolla, CA 92038 (A member of the Mark Hopkins family of organizations.) UUCP: {cbosgd, hplabs!hp-sdd, sdcsvax, nosc}!crash!pnet01!jim ARPA: crash!pnet01!jim@nosc.mil INET: jim@pnet01.cts.com
RYAN-S@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu (stephen) (03/14/89)
Does anybody have any opinions about which of the small launch companies (E'Prime, OSC/Hercules, Space Services, Amroc, etc.) have any chance of commercial success? In talking to their broker, it seems E'Prime is having some difficulties (although I'm not sure what they are), while we have been hearing some good things about OSC/Hercules and Space Services (i.e. that they have some customers lineds up). Any thoughts? .Steve
bpendlet@esunix.UUCP (Bob Pendleton) (03/15/89)
From article <12477749495031@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu>, by RYAN-S@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu (stephen): > > > Does anybody have any opinions about which of the small launch companies > (E'Prime, OSC/Hercules, Space Services, Amroc, etc.) have any chance of > commercial success? In talking to their broker, it seems E'Prime is having > some difficulties (although I'm not sure what they are), while we have been > hearing some good things about OSC/Hercules and Space Services (i.e. that > they have some customers lineds up). Any thoughts? > > .Steve I'm biased. My wife and I own a bunch of Hercules stock. The joint venture with OSC is a very small part of Hercules Aerospace divisions total business. And Hercules Aerospace is only part of Hercules' total business. I bought Hercules stock before they went into the commercial launch business. The other companies on your list look awfully iffy to me. But then I'm a very conservative investor. Bob P. -- - Bob Pendleton, speaking only for myself. - UUCP Address: decwrl!esunix!bpendlet or utah-cs!esunix!bpendlet - - Reality is stranger than most can imagine.
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (03/16/89)
In article <12477749495031@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu> RYAN-S@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu (stephen) writes: > Does anybody have any opinions about which of the small launch companies >(E'Prime, OSC/Hercules, Space Services, Amroc, etc.) have any chance of >commercial success? ... OSC/Hercules seems to be going great guns; I'd bet on them. E'Prime I don't know about. Space Services has a sounding-rocket launch coming up, but they've been shopping for orbital-launch customers for a long time without success; there doesn't seem to be anything *wrong* with them, but nothing ever seems to happen. Amroc is financially tight but making progress; I question the need for their new rocket technology, but they are making it work. -- Welcome to Mars! Your | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology passport and visa, comrade? | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu