by Rob Coppinger | Jul 24, 2009 | Ares, Commercial human spaceflight, Constellation, COTS, exploration, Orion, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Spaceport, Virgin Galactic, White Knight
From 25 July to 14 August Hyperbola will be based in the US and working on the east coast and in Colorado and Utah, on Mountain time. From the public debut of Virgin Galactic’s WhiteKnight Two at the EAA AirVenture air show at Oshkosh to the latest on...
by Rob Coppinger | Jul 22, 2009 | Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital, Virgin Galactic, White Knight
Has Scaled Composites made further changes to the rudder of its WhiteKnight Two prototype Eve? In the company’s online log for its WK2 prototype’s flight test 13 it says: “Eval control surface mods, Eval pitot probe relocation, Intstrument approach...
by Rob Coppinger | Jul 16, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, COTS, exploration, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism
Will Futron, the company that predicted the space tourism market after SpaceShipOne get it right again? This press release was just sent outPlaya Vista, CA (July 16, 2009) – A study performed by the Futron Corporation, an aerospace consultancy based in Bethesda,...
by Rob Coppinger | Jul 1, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Spaceport, Suborbital, Technology
At the Royal Aeronautical Society’s 30 June 2009 space tourism conference Spaceport Scotland Support Group strategic development director Thomas McCallum and Swedish Space Corporation business development manager Mattias Abrahamsson answered the audiences...
by Rob Coppinger | Jul 1, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Spaceport, Suborbital, Technology, Virgin Galactic, White Knight
At the Royal Aeronautical Society’s 30 June 2009 space tourism conference EADS Astrium’s deputy chief technical officer Hugues Laporte-Weywada and Virgin Galactic president Will Whitehorn answered the audiences questions after each giving presentations Go...
by Rob Coppinger | Jun 30, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, COTS, exploration, NASA, Personal spaceflight, space station, Space tourism, Spaceport, Technology
The Commercial Spaceflight Federation, whichly recently re-branded from Personal Spaceflight Federation, has released the statement you’ll find in the extended portion of this blog post and placed this white paper on its website In an email to journalists...
