Mojave Aerospace Ventures

Mojave Aerospace Ventures

Mojave Aerospace Ventures (MAV) is a company founded by Paul Allen and Burt Rutan to handle the commercial spinoffs from the Tier One project. It owns the intellectual property arising from Tier One, and it is in turn owned by Paul Allen (the majority shareholder) and Burt Rutan. In 2004, it signed a deal[1] with Virgin Galactic to develop the Virgin SpaceShip, a suborbital spacecraft, for space tourism. Virgin Group and Scaled have subsequently formed a joint venture, The Spaceship Company, to manufacture the spacecraft.

Contents

Company

The structure of Mojave Aerospace Ventures appears to be the basis of the deal between Allen and Rutan for the funding of Tier One. The company owns all the intellectual property of the Tier One project, such as patents, and so controls commercial exploitation. Allen, the sole source of funding for Tier One, is the majority owner. Rutan, having developed the technology, owns a minority stake.[citation needed] This stands in contrast to the company more usually associated with Tier One, Scaled Composites, which, as of 2007, is owned by Northrop Grumman.[2] MAV serves to separate[clarification needed] Tier One spinoffs from Scaled Composites.[citation needed]

Virgin Galactic

On September 25, 2004 MAV agreed on a joint venture with Richard Branson's newly-formed company Virgin Galactic, to develop a suborbital spacecraft for the space tourism market. The initial plan is to build five Virgin SpaceShips, based on scaling up the SpaceShipOne design.[citation needed] The spacecraft would be manufactured by The Spaceship Company.[citation needed]

The designs for the Tier 1b customer suborbital spaceflight vehicles are referred to as SpaceShipTwo and its carrier aircraft is White Knight Two.

References

External links


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем сделать НИР

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Mojave Air and Space Port — in 2009 IATA: MHV – ICAO: KMHV …   Wikipedia

  • XCOR Aerospace — Type Private Industry Aerospace and space tourism Founded September 1999 Headquarters Mojave Spaceport Key people Jeff Greason (President and Co Founder) …   Wikipedia

  • XCOR Aerospace — est une société privée développant des moteur fusées, de type LOX méthane, basée à Mojave, en Californie. Dirigée par Jeff Greason, qui a fait partie de la Commission Augustine, elle a comme projet un avion suborbital, le Lynx rocketplane,… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Bigelow Aerospace — 36° 12′ 43″ N 115° 10′ 01″ W / 36.212, 115.167 …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Vulcan Ventures — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Vulcan. Vulcan Ventures Inc Dates clés Fondation à Seattle en 1986 Personnages clés Paul Allen …   Wikipédia en Français

  • SpaceShipOne — Space Ship One redirects here. For the album by Paul Gilbert, see Space Ship One (album). SpaceShipOne …   Wikipedia

  • Scaled Composites Tier One — Tier One redirects here. For other uses, see Tier 1 (disambiguation). Tier One is Scaled Composites program of suborbital human spaceflight using the reusable spacecraft SpaceShipOne and its launcher White Knight. The craft was designed by Burt …   Wikipedia

  • VMS Eve — s maiden flight December 21, 2008 White …   Wikipedia

  • Tier One — is Scaled Composites program of suborbital human spaceflight using the reusable spacecraft SpaceShipOne and its launcher White Knight. The craft are designed by Burt Rutan, and the project is funded 20 million US Dollars by Paul Allen. In 2004 it …   Wikipedia

  • Commercialization of space — A DIRECTV satellite dish on a roof Commercialization of space is the use of equipment sent into or through outer space to provide goods or services of commercial value, either by a corporation or state. Examples of the commercial use of space… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”