| 词条 | Mojave Aerospace Ventures |
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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. In 2004, it signed a deal[1] with Virgin Galactic to develop the Virgin SpaceShip, a suborbital spacecraft, for space tourism. Virgin Group and Scaled Composites have subsequently formed a joint venture, The Spaceship Company, to manufacture the spacecraft. CompanyThe structure of Mojave Aerospace Ventures appears to be the basis of the deal between Allen and Rutan for the funding of Tier One. The company owns all the intellectual property of the Tier One project, such as patents, and so controls commercial exploitation. Allen, the sole source of funding for Tier One, is the majority owner. Rutan, having developed the technology, owns a minority stake.{{Citation needed|date=March 2010}} This stands in contrast to the company more usually associated with Tier One, Scaled Composites, which, as of 2007, is owned by Northrop Grumman.[2] MAV serves to separate{{Clarify|date=March 2010}} Tier One spinoffs from Scaled.{{Citation needed|date=March 2010}} Mojave Aerospace Ventures is part of Allen's Vulcan Aerospace.[3] Tier One derivative applicationsVirgin GalacticOn September 25, 2004 MAV agreed on a joint venture with Richard Branson's newly formed company Virgin Galactic, to develop a suborbital spacecraft for the space tourism market. The initial plan is to build five Virgin SpaceShips, based on scaling up the SpaceShipOne design.{{Citation needed|date=March 2010}} The spacecraft would be manufactured by The Spaceship Company.{{Citation needed|date=March 2010}} The designs for the Tier 1b customer suborbital spaceflight vehicles are referred to as SpaceShipTwo and its carrier aircraft is White Knight Two. Stratolaunch SystemsA further application of the Tier One technology is for Allen's Stratolaunch Systems with its Stratolaunch carrier aircraft Roc.[3] References{{More footnotes|date=April 2009}}1. ^http://www.virgingalactic.com/pressftp/content/Virgin%20Galactic%20Press%20Releases/Galactic%20-%20Launch%20Release.doc{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} 2. ^Northrop Grumman Buys Builder of SpaceShipOne, Brian Berger and Lon Rains, SPACE.com, 2007-07-20, accessed 2010-03-08. 3. ^1 {{cite news |url= http://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/space-wa2/ |title= Tech billionaires aim for cheaper spaceflight |date= 31 May 2015 |publisher= Seattle Times |author= Dominic Gates }} External links{{commonscat|Mojave Aerospace Ventures}}
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