Talk:Rocketplane Limited, Inc.

May 2007 Status
The Rocketplane XP project has experienced financial difficulties, and has RIF'ed all but 4 employees, too few to be effective.

Sad, as the old saying goes "A great idea poorly executed will forever be remembered as a bad idea."

July 2008 Status
Addendum: Of the "key people" listed in this wiki, only one remains. Urie and Herrington have both left. French, the CEO, has hired a few replacements. Some French claims to have hired have connections to Lockheed-Martin's F-22 projects. The company is trying to get new funding. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.160.122.119 (talk) 16:05, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

April 2009 Status
Rocketplane still exists as a corporate entity, and has plans for developing their suborbital rocket technology. They do not have all of the funding necessary to put their plans on any kind of a firm schedule. There is a very informative Jeff Foust interview of Chuck Lauer of Rocketplane Global / Rocketplane Kistler that was filmed in April 2009 at the Space Access '09 conference. Here is the link:. At 5:00 minutes into the interview he gives an update on "Rocketplane Kistler, the orbital side" of the Rocketplane xyz business. "Rocketplane Global" is focusing on the suborbital part of the business, the 6-passenger rocketplane design that they solidified in 2007; RG is still working the financing to pursue building the spacecraft (covered earlier in the interview). And here is another link to recent RK info. I'll leave it to other enterprising editors to update the article, which is, as of now, badly dated.N2e (talk) 20:27, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

April 2010 status
This reference in NewSpace Journal on April 11th indicates Rocketplane Global (redlinked non-existent WP article as of 2010-04-13) may be making a Florida play, or at least, has made some public announcements to that effect. 1) While probably not very relevant to the Rocketplane Limited, Inc. article, nor maybe the Rocketplane Kistler article, it does point out that Wikipedia probably has no article about RG that it should, while both the RL and RK articles are terribly dated. 2) This is two years in a row now where Lauer has been making announcments about the R_Global-named entity. N2e (talk) 02:30, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

December 2010: media source for the article
Media article published in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin Journal-Sentinel newspaper: Financial meltdown scuttles dreams of Green Bay's rocket man, 2010-12-11, accessed 2010-12-13. It is a major in-depth piece, focused on the founder, and will no doubt prove useful as a source for the article. N2e (talk) 19:46, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Proposed Merge
I propose merging this article into the Rocketplane Global Inc. article, and making this article redirect there. The two articles cover substantially the same content. Skepticalgiraffe (talk) 17:20, 3 June 2020 (UTC)