Newsgroups: sci.space
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: E'Prime Aerospace Corporation
Message-ID: <1989Mar15.170834.22194@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <8903080156.AA15653@crash.cts.com> <12477749495031@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 89 17:08:34 GMT

In article <12477749495031@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu> RYAN-S@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu (stephen) writes:
>  Does anybody have any opinions about which of the small launch companies
>(E'Prime, OSC/Hercules, Space Services, Amroc, etc.) have any chance of 
>commercial success? ...

OSC/Hercules seems to be going great guns; I'd bet on them.  E'Prime I
don't know about.  Space Services has a sounding-rocket launch coming up,
but they've been shopping for orbital-launch customers for a long time
without success; there doesn't seem to be anything *wrong* with them, but
nothing ever seems to happen.  Amroc is financially tight but making
progress; I question the need for their new rocket technology, but they
are making it work.
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