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class="infobox ib-company vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org">Sierra Nevada Corporation's Space Systems (formerly SpaceDev, Inc.)</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image ib-company-logo logo"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Space_dev_(logo).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c2/Space_dev_%28logo%29.png/150px-Space_dev_%28logo%29.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="63" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c2/Space_dev_%28logo%29.png 1.5x" data-file-width="217" data-file-height="91" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Company type</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Subsidiary" title="Subsidiary">Subsidiary</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Industry</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Aerospace" title="Aerospace">Aerospace</a> & <a href="/wiki/Defense_industry" class="mw-redirect" title="Defense industry">Defense</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Poway,_California" title="Poway, California">Poway, California</a> (1997)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Poway,_California" title="Poway, California">Poway, California</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Key people</div></th><td class="infobox-data agent">Mark N. Sirangelo, CEO (Principal Executive Officer) and Chairman of the Board of Directors. Richard B. Slansky, President and CFO. (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer). Scott Tibbitts, Managing Director and Director. <a href="/wiki/James_S._Voss" title="James S. Voss">James S. Voss</a>, Vice President.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Products</th><td class="infobox-data">Small Spacecraft, Propulsion Products and Services, Space Components and Mechanisms, Structures</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Revenue</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Dollar" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Dollar">USD</a> $33 million (2006)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Number of employees</div></th><td class="infobox-data">208</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.spacedev.com/">http://www.spacedev.com/</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>SpaceDev</b>, a part of the "Space Systems Business" of <a href="/wiki/Sierra_Nevada_Corporation" title="Sierra Nevada Corporation">Sierra Nevada Corporation</a>, is prominent for its <a href="/wiki/Spaceflight" title="Spaceflight">spaceflight</a> and <a href="/wiki/Microsatellite_(spaceflight)" class="mw-redirect" title="Microsatellite (spaceflight)">microsatellite</a> work. It designed and built components for the <a href="/wiki/Hybrid_rocket" class="mw-redirect" title="Hybrid rocket">hybrid rocket</a> motors for <a href="/wiki/Paul_Allen" title="Paul Allen">Paul Allen</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Scaled_Composites_Tier_One" title="Scaled Composites Tier One">Tier One</a> <a href="/wiki/Suborbital" class="mw-redirect" title="Suborbital">suborbital</a> <a href="/wiki/Scaled_Composites_SpaceShipOne" class="mw-redirect" title="Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne">SpaceShipOne</a> space program operated by <a href="/wiki/Scaled_Composites" title="Scaled Composites">Scaled Composites</a>. It is also developing micro- and nano-satellites, a small expendable launch vehicle, the <a href="/wiki/SpaceDev_Streaker" class="mw-redirect" title="SpaceDev Streaker">SpaceDev Streaker</a>, and has designed a piloted suborbital and orbital spaceship of its own, the <a href="/wiki/SpaceDev_Dream_Chaser" class="mw-redirect" title="SpaceDev Dream Chaser">SpaceDev Dream Chaser</a>, in collaboration with <a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a>. </p><p>SpaceDev is based near San Diego in <a href="/wiki/Poway,_California" title="Poway, California">Poway, California</a>. Its objective is to make routine commercial spaceflight possible and to help open space for all of humanity. </p><p>Previously a publicly traded company (OTCBB:SPDV), on 20 October 2008 SpaceDev officials announced that the company would be acquired by <a href="/wiki/Sierra_Nevada_Corporation" title="Sierra Nevada Corporation">Sierra Nevada Corporation</a>, a privately owned company. The announced acquisition price was 38 million dollars. The role of SpaceDev will be melded into another of Sierra Nevada's subsidiary companies, <a href="/wiki/MicroSat" class="mw-redirect" title="MicroSat">MicroSat</a>, to create a more complete <a href="/wiki/Space_technology" title="Space technology">space technology</a> unit.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On December 16, 2008, SpaceDev announced its acquisition by Sierra Nevada Corporation had been completed.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SpaceDev&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>SpaceDev was founded in 1997 by <a href="/wiki/Jim_Benson" class="mw-redirect" title="Jim Benson">Jim Benson</a>, who acquired Integrated Space Systems of Southern California and then acquired a dormant publicly traded Colorado corporation through a reverse acquisition to create the publicly traded SpaceDev. For a while, SpaceDev also owned UK-based <a href="/w/index.php?title=Space_Innovations_Limited&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Space Innovations Limited (page does not exist)">Space Innovations Limited</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In August 1998 SpaceDev acquired all patents, intellectual property, test results, and documents that had been produced by the out of business <a href="/wiki/American_Rocket_Company" title="American Rocket Company">American Rocket Company</a> (AMROC). </p><p>On August 6, 1998, the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Securities_and_Exchange_Commission" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Securities and Exchange Commission">United States Securities and Exchange Commission</a> filed an administrative proceeding alleging securities fraud against Spacedev Inc. According to the SEC, Spacedev promotes itself extensively on the Internet. The SEC alleged that the company made false and misleading statements over the Internet and via other media in violation of U.S. securities laws in an attempt to increase its stock value. The SEC was seeking cease and desist orders against Spacedev and its chairman, James W. Benson. A settlement was reached between the SEC, Spacedev and James W. Benson. The settlement states that the SEC was founded in its allegations and SpaceDev cease and desist from committing or causing violations or future violations of Section 17(a) of the Securities Act and Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act and Rule 10b-5 thereunder; and Mr. Benson cease and desist from committing or causing violations or future violations of Section 17(a) of the Securities Act and Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act and Rule 10b-5 thereunder.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The company's first big project was to be the <a href="/wiki/Near_Earth_Asteroid_Prospector" class="mw-redirect" title="Near Earth Asteroid Prospector">Near Earth Asteroid Prospector</a>, or NEAP, a small innovative commercial spacecraft mission that would have rendezvoused with and landed on a Near Earth Asteroid (NEO), conducted scientific experiments, and claimed the asteroid as private property.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> As it turned out however, the company's first success would come a little closer to home, in the form of <a href="/wiki/CHIPSat" class="mw-redirect" title="CHIPSat">CHIPSat</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080303015107/http://chips.ssl.berkeley.edu/">[1]</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Cosmic_Hot_Interstellar_Plasma_Spectrometer" class="mw-redirect" title="Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer">Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer</a> microsatellite. SpaceDev built and conducted early orbit operations of the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) microsat, the first to use only the Internet for its communications, for University of California at Berkeley under NASA's <a href="/w/index.php?title=University_Explorer_Program&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="University Explorer Program (page does not exist)">University Explorer Program</a> (UNEX). This was followed one year later by supplying the rocket motors that propelled SpaceShipOne into the history books by creating the world's first civilian astronauts and helping <a href="/wiki/Paul_Allen" title="Paul Allen">Paul Allen</a> win the $10 million <a href="/wiki/Ansari_X_Prize" title="Ansari X Prize">Ansari X Prize</a>. </p><p>On October 26, 2005, SpaceDev announced that the Starsys Research Corporation of <a href="/wiki/Boulder,_Colorado" title="Boulder, Colorado">Boulder, Colorado</a>, would merge with SpaceDev, which would provide SpaceDev with additional expertise and experience with <a href="/wiki/Miniaturized_satellite" class="mw-redirect" title="Miniaturized satellite">microsatellite</a> technologies.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The acquisition of Starsys on January 31, 2006, put the number of SpaceDev employees over 200, located in three states. The Starsys division is being groomed to become a center of space robotics for SpaceDev. Over 18 years Starsys developed and delivered 2,000 space mechanisms that have flown on over 200 missions, all successfully.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> SpaceDev has most or all of the moving parts on Mars at this time, had mechanisms on Deep Impact, is supplying the separation system and docking mechanism for the soon to be launched Orbital Express, and has mechanisms on the way to Pluto. </p><p>On September 28, 2006, SpaceDev announced that founder and CEO Jim Benson was stepping down to start a new <a href="/wiki/Space_tourism" title="Space tourism">space tourism</a> venture, The <a href="/wiki/Benson_Space_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="Benson Space Company">Benson Space Company</a> (BSC). BSC was expected to be one of SpaceDev's largest customers, purchasing multiple <a href="/wiki/Dream_Chaser" title="Dream Chaser">Dream Chaser</a> spaceships for use in personal spaceflight.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However BSC was dissolved following the death of Jim Benson on October 10, 2008, due to a brain tumor. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Dream_Chaser">Dream Chaser</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SpaceDev&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Dream Chaser"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/SpaceDev_Dream_Chaser" class="mw-redirect" title="SpaceDev Dream Chaser">SpaceDev Dream Chaser</a></div> <p>On November 16, 2005, SpaceDev announced <sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> its <a href="/wiki/Dream_Chaser" title="Dream Chaser">Dream Chaser</a> concept for a four-passenger <a href="/wiki/Sub-orbital" class="mw-redirect" title="Sub-orbital">sub-orbital</a> and a six-passenger <a href="/wiki/Orbital_spaceflight" title="Orbital spaceflight">orbital</a> vehicle, both based on NASA's HL-20 "Personnel Launch System" or "Space Taxi". SpaceDev's suborbital Dream Chaser will use internal <a href="/wiki/Hybrid_rocket" class="mw-redirect" title="Hybrid rocket">hybrid rocket</a> motors similar to those SpaceDev developed for Paul Allen's SpaceShipOne, while the orbital version will use the internal motors plus larger external hybrid motors. SpaceDev's hybrid rocket technology was pioneered by the <a href="/wiki/American_Rocket_Company" title="American Rocket Company">American Rocket Company</a>. </p><p>On May 5, 2006, SpaceDev announced it was selected as a finalist in NASA's $500 million <a href="/wiki/Commercial_Orbital_Transportation_Services" title="Commercial Orbital Transportation Services">Commercial Orbital Transportation Services</a> (COTS) demonstration program.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> SpaceDev has been working with NASA Ames to design a modern version of the NASA HL-20 Personnel Launch System, called the SpaceDev Dream Chaser. However, on August 18, 2006, it was revealed that SpaceDev did not win the contract.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On December 18, 2006, SpaceDev announced that it has been awarded a $330,000 Phase I study contract from <a href="/wiki/Benson_Space_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="Benson Space Company">Benson Space Company</a> to further the <a href="/wiki/SpaceDev_Dream_Chaser" class="mw-redirect" title="SpaceDev Dream Chaser">SpaceDev Dream Chaser</a> spaceship program. The study will contribute to the ongoing development of the spaceship and will result in space vehicle and rocket motor designs ready for Phase II vehicle fabrication and testing. The <a href="/wiki/SpaceDev_Dream_Chaser" class="mw-redirect" title="SpaceDev Dream Chaser">SpaceDev Dream Chaser</a> spaceship is based on NASA's design of the ten passenger orbital HL-20 Personnel Launch System, and will launch vertically and land horizontally in direct sight of viewers. </p><p>On April 10, 2007, SpaceDev announced<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that it had finalized a Memorandum of Understanding with <a href="/wiki/United_Launch_Alliance" title="United Launch Alliance">United Launch Alliance</a> on exploring the potential of launching the <a href="/wiki/SpaceDev_Dream_Chaser" class="mw-redirect" title="SpaceDev Dream Chaser">SpaceDev Dream Chaser</a> spaceship using an <a href="/wiki/Atlas_V" title="Atlas V">Atlas V</a> 431, (having a four-meter diameter fairing, three solid rocket boosters, and a single Centaur engine in the second stage). Destinations could include the <a href="/wiki/International_Space_Station" title="International Space Station">International Space Station</a> (ISS) and other commercial orbital destinations as well as for commercial orbital space tourism flights. </p><p>On February 1, 2010, NASA announced a $20 million award to Sierra Nevada, to go toward development of the <a href="/wiki/SpaceDev_Dream_Chaser" class="mw-redirect" title="SpaceDev Dream Chaser">SpaceDev Dream Chaser</a>, which could be ready for launch by 2014 on United Launch Alliance's <a href="/wiki/Atlas_V" title="Atlas V">Atlas V</a> rocket, according to Mark Sirangelo, corporate vice president for Sierra Nevada's space systems division. </p><p>On August 3, 2012, NASA announced new agreements with the Sierra Nevada Corporation and two other companies to design and develop the next generation of U.S. human spaceflight capabilities, enabling a launch of astronauts from U.S. soil in the next five years. Advances made by these companies under newly signed Space Act Agreements through the agency's Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) initiative are intended to ultimately lead to the availability of commercial human spaceflight services for government and commercial customers. As part of this agreement, Sierra Nevada Corporation was awarded $212.5 million, ostensibly to continue development and testing of its <a href="/wiki/Dream_Chaser" title="Dream Chaser">Dream Chaser</a> spacecraft.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Trailblazer">Trailblazer</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SpaceDev&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Trailblazer"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Trailblazer_(satellite)" title="Trailblazer (satellite)">Trailblazer (satellite)</a></div> <p>SpaceDev manufactured the Trailblazer satellite selected by the <a href="/wiki/Operationally_Responsive_Space_Office" title="Operationally Responsive Space Office">Operationally Responsive Space Office</a> for its Jumpstart mission. Trailblazer was a <a href="/wiki/Miniaturized_satellite#Microsatellite" class="mw-redirect" title="Miniaturized satellite">microsatellite</a> developed under a <a href="/wiki/Missile_Defense_Agency" title="Missile Defense Agency">Missile Defense Agency</a> contract. After being launched Trailblazer would have collected image data and communicated with a <a href="/wiki/Ground_station" title="Ground station">ground station</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Trailblazer was the primary payload for the third attempted flight of a <a href="/wiki/Falcon_1" title="Falcon 1">Falcon 1</a> launch vehicle. The launch was attempted on August 3, 2008, and ended in failure, with loss of both vehicle and payload.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2009)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>TrailBlazer was researched, designed, assembled, tested and packed for shipping almost entirely at the Poway SpaceDev location. With a team of about 25 employees working around the clock, the satellite was assembled and ready for launch in just under 4 months, thus meeting their advanced deadline, winning their opportunity for launch and as far as anyone else is able to substantiate, now holds the record for assembly of a launched spacecraft.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2009)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Streaker">Streaker</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SpaceDev&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Streaker"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Streaker_(rocket)" title="Streaker (rocket)">Streaker (rocket)</a></div> <p>The Streaker was a family of rockets conceptualized by SpaceDev with the goal of a low-cost, low complexity launch vehicle.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Planned to first launch in 2007-8, it has more likely then not been abandoned by the company as little to no information is available. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SpaceDev&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output 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Sierra Nevada Corporation Newsletter: "SNC signed agreement to acquire SpaceDev"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2006-08-26</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Space+Innovations+Limited+Management+Reacquires+Company+From+SpaceDev&rft.pub=Space+Ref&rft.date=2000-01-14&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spaceref.com%2Fnews%2Fviewpr.html%3Fpid%3D531&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASpaceDev" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/34-41279.txt">"United States Securities and Exchange Commission ruling against Spacedev"</a>. United States Securities and Exchange Commission. 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center;">Defunct</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Armadillo_Aerospace" title="Armadillo Aerospace">Armadillo Aerospace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canadian_Arrow" title="Canadian Arrow">Canadian Arrow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golden_Spike_Company" title="Golden Spike Company">Golden Spike Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MirCorp" class="mw-redirect" title="MirCorp">MirCorp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orion_Span" class="mw-redirect" title="Orion Span">Orion Span</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PlanetSpace" title="PlanetSpace">PlanetSpace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RocketShip_Tours" title="RocketShip Tours">RocketShip Tours</a></li> <li>Space Island Group (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Space_Island_Project&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Space Island Project (page does not exist)">Space Island Project</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/XCOR_Aerospace" title="XCOR 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Shuttleworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gregory_Olsen" title="Gregory Olsen">Gregory Olsen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anousheh_Ansari" title="Anousheh Ansari">Anousheh Ansari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Simonyi" title="Charles Simonyi">Charles Simonyi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Garriott" title="Richard Garriott">Richard Garriott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guy_Lalibert%C3%A9" title="Guy Laliberté">Guy Laliberté</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Daemen" title="Oliver Daemen">Oliver Daemen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jared_Isaacman" title="Jared Isaacman">Jared Isaacman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sian_Proctor" title="Sian Proctor">Sian Proctor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hayley_Arceneaux" title="Hayley Arceneaux">Hayley Arceneaux</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Sembroski" title="Christopher Sembroski">Christopher Sembroski</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yusaku_Maezawa" title="Yusaku Maezawa">Yusaku Maezawa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yozo_Hirano" title="Yozo 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