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Originally Posted At Downloaded from: justpaste.it/sdiprof originally posted at http://friendfeed.com/ewing2001/874b3cd1/profiteers-from-9-11-private-space-flight-sdi http://twitpic.com/7ju24 - Profiteers from 9/11 : Private Space-Flight (SDI '2009+Con Companies Overview) June 16 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share - Edit http://twitpic.com/7ju24 Private Space-Flight -SDI '2009+Con': Companies Overview a) Crew and cargo capsules ++++ ARCASPACE -- Or english for "Romanian Cosmonautics and Aeronautics Association" , a non-governmental organization. The agency has committed itself as a competitor in the Google Lunar X-Prize. +++ Bigelow Aerospace -- North Las Vegas, Nevada space technology startup company founded in 1999 by hotelier Robert Bigelow. Bigelow has reserved a 2011 launch on the SpaceX [founded by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk] Falcon 9 rocket [manufactured by SpaceX]. Bigelow is in talks with Lockheed Martin to contract launch services on its Atlas V - 401 vehicle. +++ - You (edit | delete) Blue Origin -- Privately-funded aerospace company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos. Under the current timetable, Blue Origin will fly unmanned in 2011 and manned in 2012. Employees of Blue Origin include science fiction author Neal Stephenson [Snow Crash (1992), The System of the World (2004) etc...]. +++ EADS Astrium -- see EADS files at http://friendfeed.com/search... ; 'Flight AF447-EADS-Radar Incompetence Theory' http://ff.im/3Ruid etc... +++ Excalibur Almaz -- Derived from the formerly secret Soviet space program. Chief of spacecraft operations is Leroy Chiao, formerly a NASA astronaut, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Commander of the ISS (International Space Station). +++ da Vinci Project-- Canadian aerospace engineers; formed in 1996. +++ - You (edit | delete) Galactic Suite Ltd.-- Founded in 2007, linked to the Aerospace Research and Technology Centre (CTAE), which cooperates with the Spanish National Institute of Aerospace Technology, INTA. http://www.ctae.org/index... +++ Interorbital Systems -- Founded in 1996 by Roderick and Randa Milliron, who also co-founded Trans Lunar Research. +++ Orbital Sciences Corp.-- Orbital formerly owned ORBIMAGE (now GeoEye) and the Magellan line of GPS receivers, though they are now divested (the latter to Thales UK). Among Orbital's notable Partnerships is Lockheed Martin, Alliant Techsystems (ATK) [linked to Obama's new head of NASA Charles F. Bolden, Jr./"Free Electron Laser Paper 1994", Thales Alenia Space etc... See also Orbital, GeoEye and Thales files at http://friendfeed.com/search... ; http://friendfeed.com/search... ; http://friendfeed.com/search... +++ PlanetSpace --- Chicago- based rocket and space travel project founded by Geoff Sheerin, CEO of the Canadian Arrow corporation. In February 2009, PlanetSpace announced it has added the Space Exploration division of The Boeing Company to its existing teammates, Alliant Techsystems and Lockheed Martin Corporation on the proposed solution to NASA for the Commercial Resupply Services to the International Space Station. http://www.planetspace.org/lo... +++ Reaction Engines Ltd. --- British company based in Oxfordshire. +++ - You (edit | delete) Rocketplane Kistler --- Formed in 2006 by Rocketplane Limited, Inc. after it acquired Kistler Aerospace. In August 2006, NASA announced that Rocketplane Kistler had been chosen, along with SpaceX, to develop crew and cargo launch services, aka Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS), for the ISS (International Space Station). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... +++ Scaled Composites --- Aerospace company currently owned by Northrop Grumman. +++ Space Adventures --- Founded in 1998. The company's advisory board includes Apollo 11 member Buzz Aldrin, who is also member of the 'SpaceFoundation' http://www.spacefoundation.org/about... [see also Lou Dobbs/CNN Moneyline http://www.sirius.com/servlet... ] . Sergey Brin, co-founder and president of technology for Google Inc., has become the founding member of Space Adventures' 'Founding Explorer' group. +++ SpaceDev --- Developing micro- and nano-satellites. SpaceDev also manufactured the Trailblazer satellite for the MDA (Missile Defense Agency), the primary payload for the third attempted flight of a Falcon 1 launch vehicle [designed and manufactured by SpaceX]. see also ewing2001 files about "Project Trailblazer", partly developed in attacked pentagon wedge on 9/11. http://www.google.com/search... [BoozAllen Hamilton, BTG Inc. etc...] . SpaceDev meanwhile belongs to Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC), headquartered in Sparks, Nevada and linked to the PMA Group with Lockheed Martin, Boeing and dozens of other major defense contractors on their list of clients. The PMA Group was also major contributor to U.S. Rep. John Murtha's campaign committee. In November 2008, the PMA Group was target of a FBI Raid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... +++ SpaceX --- Founded by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk. see my SpaceX files at http://friendfeed.com/search... In 2008, SpaceX accepts $20 million investment from the Founders Fund, which is also run by Sean Parker, co-founder of web2.0 veterans Napster and Facebook. see also 9/11 "EuroSpace Outside Job" http://tinyurl.com/eurospa... +++ - You (edit | delete) t/Space --- American aerospace company which is participating in NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program. Run by Charles A. Duelfer who replaced David Kay in January 2004 as the leader of the Iraq Survey Group, which was in charge of the alleged WMD-search and destruction operation in Iraq. Lon Levin, a co-founder of XM Satellite Radio, is the Chief Strategy Officer of t/Space. +++ Virgin Galactic --- Company within Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group. see also my Virgin files at http://friendfeed.com/search... +++ XCOR Aerospace --- Private rocket engine and spaceflight development company based at the Mojave Spaceport in Mojave, California. b) Launch vehicles ---- Among others include AirLaunch LLC [Kirkland, Washington]; ARCASPACE [Romania]; Armadillo Aerospace [largely funded by John Carmack, developer of computer games including the Doom and Quake series]; Canadian Arrow [created also PlanetSpace Corporation; see above]; PlanetSpace Corporation [see above]; Lockheed Martin; Orbital Sciences Corp. [see above]; Space Systems/Loral [SS/L's customers include AsiaSat, DirecTV, EchoStar, Globalstar, Hispasat, NASA/NOAA (GOES), PanAmSat, SES S.A., SES New Skies, Sirius Satellite Radio, XM Satellite Radio etc...] ; Space Transport Corp. [see above], SpaceX [see above] +++++ c) Landers, rovers and probes ---- Among many others incl. Astrobotic Technology [strategic partnerships with Raytheon and the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory] ; see complete list, mosty in development at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - You (edit | delete) ++++ d) Research craft and tech demonstrators ++++ if not mentioned above, companies also include Masten Space Systems, Swedish Space Corp. and UP Aerospace [in 2007, some of the cremated remains of actor James Doohan, who played Chief Engineer Scott on the 1960s television series Star Trek, was rocketed into suborbital space (along with ashes of about 200 other people) by UP Aerospace]. ++++ e) Propulsion manufacturers --- Among a few others also Ad Astra Rocket Company, run by retired astronaut, Dr. Franklin Chang-Diaz, who was one of the first Hispanic or Latino Americans to go into space. ++++ f) Satellite launchers --- * Arianespace * Antrix Corporation * EADS Astrium Space Transportation * Eurockot Launch Services * International Launch Services * ISC Kosmotras Kazakhstan * Orbital Sciences Corporation * SpaceDev * SpaceQuest, Ltd. * SpaceX * Sea Launch (and subsidiary Land Launch) * Starsem ++++ - You (edit | delete) g) Spaceliner companies --- Benson Space Company [contracts for SpaceDev]; Space Adventures ; Virgin Galactic ++++ h) Spacecraft component manufacturers --- * Andrews Space * EADS Astrium Satellites * Thortek Laboratories, Inc. * Starsys (merged with SpaceDev) * SpaceDev [see related archives in search engine] [SEE ALSO TOP 70 Most Interesting 'Power Structure' Companies and Institutions [ewing2001 ; compiled August 2009] @ http://tinyurl.com/9-11top70 ] - You (edit | delete) Update 01/08/10: As predicted in 2009, more ongoing aviation falseflags and "pseudo- political" responses, will shift aviation into more privatized, huge overhauled [playing also into web3.0/4.0-] systems, with "new" equipment from electronic space defense Industry, their associated 'con'-companies, puppeteered by the main schemers around EADS, Thales Alenia, SES Skies and co. [see Arrest made in Newark airport security breach - January 8, 2009 http://news.yahoo.com/s... 11 min. ago [as you can see, it doesn't even matter, if camera footage or re-animated material, is pushing these steps. ] - You (edit | delete) [NOTE: The 9/11 post-"Phase3" started in early 2009 with the so called Miracle Hudson Flight, then the "missing Air France flight AF447" http://ff.im/3u1LR, ; plus other odd aviation incidents incl. the Miracle Jamaica Crash, the alleged terror attempt on this Detroit-Amsterdam flight, plus obvious follow-up "security breach"-incidents at Newark incl. acting Obama-responses ; see also 9/11 "EuroSpace Outside Job" at http://tinyurl.com/eurospa... ; "Rollerball"-SpaceWar 2009 continues: Dubai, Spain, "installed" from EADS/Kazakhstan http://ff.im/3ljYI ; Space Biz Roulette: U.S. Company PCI Awards "International" [Afghan] Satellite Communication Contract ; Dutch SES profits http://ff.im/1gAgL ; SpaceX finally fires Falcon 9 Rocket http://ff.im/ajk73 ; Israeli-Italian-Indian Space Alliance on SAR http://ff.im/bVcOi ; etc....
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