SpaceDev

SpaceDev is a company founded by Jim Benson publicly traded companies and the space industry is assigned. It is well known for his work in the field of space flight and micro- satellites.

The company's headquarters is located near San Diego in Poway. The company's goal is to enable routine commercial space flights and to open space so the whole of humanity.

In October 2008, SpaceDev announced that an agreement to sell the company to the Sierra Nevada Corporation has been signed.

Drive technologies

For the built by the company Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne, a hybrid rocket engine was designed and constructed. In addition to design micro -and nano- satellites and its own launcher called, Streaker, but not yet built. In collaboration with NASA, the Dream Chaser is developed, a manned spacecraft for both the suborbital and orbital flight the.

Satellite technologies

SpaceDev has specialized in the production of micro- satellites. So far, the research satellite CHIPSat was built for NASA successfully launched into space. Furthermore, also the satellite TrailBlazer was produced which was destroyed in the third test flight of the Falcon 1 rocket.