by Rob Coppinger | Jan 30, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, Personal spaceflight
The US Federal Aviation Administration has posted to the US government’s federal register today its Environmental Assessment (EA) that found no significant impact in the operation of the Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) Falcon 1 and 9 rockets and Dragon...
by Rob Coppinger | Jan 6, 2009 | Ares, Commercial human spaceflight, Constellation, ESA, exploration, International Space Station, JAXA, NASA, Orion, Personal spaceflight, Russia, Satellites, Space Shuttle, Space tourism, Technology, Virgin Galactic
While the blogosphere has been twirling to the rumour mill of Obama inspired military NASA reports (alternate universe stuff as far as Hyperbola is concened) and alleged campaigns in favour of the US space agency administrator Mike Griffin I have written a 2009...
by Rob Coppinger | Dec 2, 2008 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital
At 1000h local time in California (1800h GMT) Xcor Aerospace has its press conference about its first customer, now known to be Danish citizen Per Wimmer, its first travel agent and technical advances for its proposed suborbital Lynx vehicle I have been provided with...
by Rob Coppinger | Dec 2, 2008 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital
Yes, as a P. W. Mothman has commented (on this earlier post) the Xcor customer is Danish born, UK resident Per Wimmer. Xcor cheekily, and perhaps at some risk, published the above photo but without caption so unless you knew Per you would not have known that he was...
by Rob Coppinger | Nov 28, 2008 | Apollo, Constellation, ESA, exploration, History, International Space Station, JAXA, NASA, Personal spaceflight, Technology
Hyperbola has now got its own Youtube channel and that can be found here on Youtube During the coming weeks many videos previously only found on www.flightglobal.com and previously unseen video will find their way onto Hyperbola’s FlightHyperbola Youtube...
by Rob Coppinger | Nov 27, 2008 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital
Hyperbola has learnt the identity of the first customer for Xcor Aerospace’s Lynx suborbital vehicle and this blog can say now thatthe individual is a northern European (no it’s not Richard Branson), is male, is from a country near to Germany, has worked...
