[AR] Re: Introduction to Aphelion Aerospace and a new RGHP system

  • From: Rand Simberg <simberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 21:03:32 -0700

Beal made a lot of bad business decisions, in market choice, in design choice, and in launch-site choice. He could have at least had Anguilla if he had known what he was doing.

On 10/1/21 20:33, Henry Spencer wrote:

On Sat, 2 Oct 2021, Anthony Cesaroni wrote:
Beal’s side of the story.
https://www.beal-aerospace.com/

John Carmack, who met Beal and talked to him at some length afterward, said that in hindsight, Beal regretted his decision to give up, and agreed that his fears of government-subsidized low-cost reusable competition had been exaggerated (he wasn't worried about the EELVs).

Henry

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