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Space Business Blog: Would a Reusable Falcon Hurt SpaceX?

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Friday, September 7, 2012. Would a Reusable Falcon Hurt SpaceX? What happens if SpaceX is successful at achieving its Falcon reusability goals. Here is the video of SpaceX’s plans to recover and reuse the majority of its Falcon launch system. Let me make some assumptions about a Reusable Falcon (R-Falcon) to make my point that such a system may pose challenges for SpaceX. On the surface, an R-Falcon would be great. From a consumer perspective this would be great! And they will probably be successful at it.

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Space Business Blog: November 2011

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011. SpaceWorks Nanosat Market Study. Today released their latest nano/microsatellite market study. You can download it here. The study is quite bullish on the growth of Nanosatellites over the next decade with over 20% growth per year through 2014. If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know I am a big advocate for Nanosats. But I do want to caution us that the authors of this analysis are also developing the Generation Orbit. Here are a few highlights from the report.

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Space Business Blog: December 2013

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Thursday, December 12, 2013. 14 Ideas to Make Newspace Accelerators Better. Business accelerators in Silicon Valley. CO), and across the US have been gathering the best young entrepreneurs, providing them the time, resources, and business connections necessary to start successful software companies. These accelerators have helped such success stories as AirBNB: now worth $2.5B. And DropBox: now worth $8B. Are hardware-based accelerators possible? If possible, what would these accelerators look like?

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Space Business Blog: Will the Reusable Falcon 9 Kill the Suborbital Launch Industry?

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Saturday, October 1, 2011. Will the Reusable Falcon 9 Kill the Suborbital Launch Industry? With SpaceX’s announcement. This week that the company would not only develop a reusable first stage for its Falcon 9 family of rockets but would make a completely reusable rocket system (I will use Clark Lindsey’s nomenclature: "rF9" for reusable Falcon 9), I have been wondering about the future of the young NewSpace companies developing reusable suborbital rockets. Will companies like Masten. Could the unmanned G...

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Space Business Blog: September 2012

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Friday, September 7, 2012. Would a Reusable Falcon Hurt SpaceX? What happens if SpaceX is successful at achieving its Falcon reusability goals. Here is the video of SpaceX’s plans to recover and reuse the majority of its Falcon launch system. Let me make some assumptions about a Reusable Falcon (R-Falcon) to make my point that such a system may pose challenges for SpaceX. On the surface, an R-Falcon would be great. From a consumer perspective this would be great! And they will probably be successful at it.

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Space Business Blog: April 2012

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Thursday, April 19, 2012. Tribute to Space Entrepreneurs. I stay connected to several young space CEOs trying to tap the ideas, relationships, and dreams to the financing necessary to produce a successful business. My wife introduced me to this short video of a boy in East LA who embodies this entrepreneurial spirit. The video is 10 min long. My five-year old has watched it seven times in the last two days! Thank you space entrepreneurs. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Out of the Cradle.

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Space Business Blog: 14 Ideas to Make Newspace Accelerators Better

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Thursday, December 12, 2013. 14 Ideas to Make Newspace Accelerators Better. Business accelerators in Silicon Valley. CO), and across the US have been gathering the best young entrepreneurs, providing them the time, resources, and business connections necessary to start successful software companies. These accelerators have helped such success stories as AirBNB: now worth $2.5B. And DropBox: now worth $8B. Are hardware-based accelerators possible? If possible, what would these accelerators look like?

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Space Business Blog: Risk Pricing for the Reusable Falcon 9

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Monday, October 17, 2011. Risk Pricing for the Reusable Falcon 9. In my last post. I explored how the SpaceX's reusable. Falcon 9 (rF9) could threaten those companies offering suborbital launch services. Discussion has focused on the risks preventing the rF9 from reaching the optimistic breakeven price point of $130 per kg (discussed in my last post). Here are a few of the risk categories you have raised:. Reduced number of flights. R educed payload capacity. This is the upper end of cost. Reduce payload...

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Space Business Blog: Investing in Virgin Galactic

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Thursday, October 20, 2011. Investing in Virgin Galactic. Abu Dhabi’s Aabar made a. In Virgin Galactic in July, increasing its stake in the company to roughly one-third ownership. This marks the second investment by the Abu Dhabi based fund in the last three years. 2009 investment for $280M equaled a 31.8% stake. Post Money valuation of $900M. 2011 investment for $110M increased its ownership stake to 37.8%. Based on this data I estimate one of two scenarios:. An example of this scenario is provided below.

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Space Business Blog: Tribute to Space Entrepreneurs

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Thursday, April 19, 2012. Tribute to Space Entrepreneurs. I stay connected to several young space CEOs trying to tap the ideas, relationships, and dreams to the financing necessary to produce a successful business. My wife introduced me to this short video of a boy in East LA who embodies this entrepreneurial spirit. The video is 10 min long. My five-year old has watched it seven times in the last two days! Thank you space entrepreneurs. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Out of the Cradle.