by David Todd | Nov 24, 2014 | Commercial human spaceflight, Space tourism, Virgin Galactic
Following the fatal test flight accident to Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Seradata was approached by a world famous newswire service to provide some data on the relative risk of flying on a rocket powered space tourism flight. We did not have this exact data...
by David Todd | Oct 31, 2014 | Commercial human spaceflight, Seradata News, Virgin Galactic
In a tragic accident, would-be suborbital space tourism operator, Virgin Galactic, has suffered a total failure of its SpaceShipTwo passenger carrying vehicle during a test flight. The air-dropped spaceplane broke apart shortly after ignition of its hybrid rocket...
by David Todd | Oct 21, 2014 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, Satellites, Science, Spaceport, Technology
Too much to see, and too little time to see it is the usual complaint about IAC, especially with respect to the various parallel strands of technical sessions. Trying to get the timing right to switch between sessions for individual lectures was virtually impossible...
by David Todd | Oct 21, 2014 | Commercial human spaceflight, ESA, JAXA, NASA
Commercial manned spaceflight was especially emphasised at IAC 2014, and it even got its own plenary session. Alexander Derechin, of RSC Energia, noted in his paper IAC 2014 B3.2.1 that as prices are set to fall, the human commercial spaceflight market would...
by David Todd | Oct 16, 2014 | Commercial human spaceflight, NASA, Seradata News, Technology
The industry magazine and web news channel, Aviation Week and Space Technology, has disclosed that the Sierra Nevada Corp (SNC) bid to obtain NASA Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CctCap) funding lost out to Boeing and SpaceX because of concerns over...
by David Todd | Sep 15, 2014 | Commercial human spaceflight, Seradata News, Space tourism
In the long running saga of Virgin Galactic’s planned commercial suborbital launch service, Sir Richard Branson has publically admitted on the David Letterman television show that the first commercial flight of his Virgin Galactic’s suborbital launch...
