Comments on: NewSpace and the financial crisis

By: Rand Simberg

Rand Simberg — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:08:57 +0000

Scaled is a part of Northrop now, they are likely to stay around. Burt will be fine.

Scaled isn’t really relevant. They are neither new, nor space. They’re an airplane company that occasionally does spaceships on the side.

By: Robert Horning

Robert Horning — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:28:37 +0000

I wouldn't get too worried about Jeff Bezos and his "paper loss". Google is fundamentally a sound company and will weather the current financial storm just fine.... assuming that they haven't done something stupid and invested some of their cash reserves into collateralized mortgage obligations or worse yet the mortgage derivatives. BTW, the wiki article is a who's who of the current financial crisis and what is so screwed up.... and how this really isn't so different than the margin purchases of stock certificates in the 1920's from a broad perspective. If anything people will be driven even more to on-line services like Google, Amazon, and E-bay to get hard bargains for things that they really need that are beyond what you would get in a typical grocery store. Buying Google stock right now wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing either.

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By: Pete Zaitcev

Pete Zaitcev — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:53:49 +0000

Elon can probably wither the storm. His order book includes international government customers and he was talking about to 15 launches per year. He is cash positive now.

Scaled is a part of Northrop now, they are likely to stay around. Burt will be fine.

I’m more concerned about Masten, and perhaps XCOR.