Comments on: Elon Musk, Virgin Galactic customer http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/01/05/elon-musk-virgin-galactic-customer/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Pete Zaitcev http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/01/05/elon-musk-virgin-galactic-customer/comment-page-1/#comment-56881 Sat, 06 Jan 2007 04:09:07 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/01/05/elon-musk-virgin-galactic-customer/#comment-56881 You don’t have to go further than Musk’s comments on Pegasus to understand what fundamental problems any airplane-launched booster has in his view. Just search for “Must Pegasus” at Yahoo or something, and it’ll be there.

]]> By: tom http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/01/05/elon-musk-virgin-galactic-customer/comment-page-1/#comment-56647 Fri, 05 Jan 2007 19:32:25 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/01/05/elon-musk-virgin-galactic-customer/#comment-56647 I’ve been wondering what Elon Musk thinks of AirLaunch LLC…looks like he’s pretty dismissive. I wonder if he has some inside knowledge about how committed DARPA is to FALCON?

Or maybe AirLaunch is just so drastically underfunded compared to SpaceX that he doesn’t see a threat. (after all, the market for small sats is not profitable for the required investment, and it’s infeasible to grow Quickreach to Geo commsat size)

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