by David Todd | Sep 10, 2014 | Commercial human spaceflight, NASA, SpaceX
Executives at Boeing, Sierra Nevada and SpaceX will be biting their nails in anticipation on which one or two teams NASA will award actual crew transportation contracts (worth a total of US$3 billion) to. This already-delayed announcement is expected imminently. ...
by David Todd | May 27, 2014 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Seradata News, Space tourism, Technology, Virgin Galactic
While it still has notional plans to make its first full suborbital spaceflight launch before the end of 2014, there remains doubts amongst Virgin Galactic’s critics whether this is still possible – not least because it has been revealed that the firm...
by David Todd | Mar 31, 2014 | Add category, Commercial human spaceflight, NASA, Satellites, Science
NASA has announced that its Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) will be launched by an air-launched Orbital Sciences Corp’ Pegasus XL launch vehicle in October 2016 from near Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Designed in conjunction...
by David Todd | Jan 28, 2014 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, Personal spaceflight
The Sierra Nevada Corporation has officially booked a flight (announced 23 January 2014) on an Atlas V launch vehicle for its reusable Dream Chaser manned transportation vehicle’s first orbital test flight. The spacecraft is set to be launched in November 2016...
by David Todd | Jan 28, 2014 | China, Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, History, On a Lighter Note, Satellites, SpaceX
As the Chinese New Year arrives, we note that China has traditionally been very superstitious about encouraging good luck. As part of the Feng Shui superstition, individuals and organisations can encourage good luck energy to enter their realms by simple measures...
by David Todd | Jan 28, 2014 | Commercial human spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital, Technology, Virgin Galactic
While the space tourism firm, Virgin Galactic, has conceded that US security regulations preclude it accepting bookings from high paying Chinese would-be space tourists, the firm does seem set on finally flying into space later this year. Nevertheless, many...
