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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 Allen (the majority shareholder) and Rutan's Scaled Composites .
The company conducted two sub-scale missions, No More Questions in May 2022, and Expressionless in February 2023, validating its upgraded systems and solutions. [ 5 ] Evolution Space completed its first space mission, Gold Chain Cowboy, on April 22, 2023, reaching apogee at 408,456 feet (124.5 km) and reached a max speed of Mach 5.2.
Scaled Composites was established in 1982 and purchased by the Beech Aircraft Corporation in 1985, as a result of the collaboration on the Starship project. In 1988, Beech's parent company, Raytheon, sold Scaled back to Rutan, who then sold it to Wyman-Gordon.
Masten Space Systems was a Mojave, California based rocket company that was developing a line of reusable VTVL spacecraft, and related rocket propulsion hardware.. Masten Space Systems competed in the NASA and Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge X Prize in 2009, winning the level one second prize of US$150,000 [4] [5] and the level two first prize of US$1,000,000.
Nov. 25—In a setback for eastern Kern's aerospace industry, Virgin Galactic LLC has informed county leaders it has decided to lay off 78 people from the company's Mojave operations. A letter the ...
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The company headquarters, engineering, manufacturing, and operations are all in Mojave, including production, test, and operations infrastructure. By 2015, Stratolaunch had built a 92,400 sq ft (8,580 m 2 ) fabrication hangar and a 107,275 sq ft (9,966.2 m 2 ) assembly hangar located near Scaled Composites . [ 31 ]