Author Topic: RPK emerges from bankruptcy (Read 2311 times)

docmordrid · « **on:** 01/25/2013 02:31 am »

Someone please shoot this zombie....

http://newsok.com/rocketplane-emerges-from-bankruptcy-keeps-reaching-for-moon/article/3745490

sdsds · « **Reply #1 on:** 01/25/2013 04:33 am »

Apparently they are not well loved: "Rep. David Dank, R-Oklahoma City, [...] says Oklahoma wouldn't welcome the company back. [...] `We've had that bucket of manure once. We don't need it again.'"

Ouch.

RocketmanUS · « **Reply #2 on:** 01/25/2013 04:45 am »

Time to let it go.
They had their chances.

Archibald · « **Reply #3 on:** 01/25/2013 06:29 am »

the only thing of interest in that mess is the location of the 75% complete K-1 vehicle. Was it scrapped ?

Prober · « **Reply #4 on:** 01/25/2013 12:51 pm »

Quote from: Archibald on 01/25/2013 06:29 am

the only thing of interest in that mess is the location of the 75% complete K-1 vehicle. Was it scrapped ?

it was never assembled, just parts all over the country. Only the people working in the company know where the Cad files and research etc are located.

Jim · « **Reply #5 on:** 01/25/2013 01:30 pm »

Quote from: Archibald on 01/25/2013 06:29 am

the only thing of interest in that mess is the location of the 75% complete K-1 vehicle. Was it scrapped ?

All the hardware was auctioned off.

simonbp · « **Reply #6 on:** 01/25/2013 01:49 pm »

And the engines are firmly at Aerojet, and I doubt you could easily get hold of them again.

Lurker Steve · « **Reply #7 on:** 01/25/2013 01:53 pm »

Are any of their patents worth the 25K he paid for them ?

Archibald · « **Reply #8 on:** 01/26/2013 01:38 pm »

Thank you all for your informative answers. Looks like the K-1 joined the crashed DC-X and the stripped X-33 hull in RLV valhalla...

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Someone please shoot this zombie

You can't, it is too cleaver. Damn, George French had a friend that just bought his bankrupted company assets for nothing, then he just had to phone that friend and say "hello, I want a post in your new company..."

Errare humanum est, perseverare diabolicum