by David Todd | Jan 3, 2013 | International Space Station, Russia, Seradata News, Space tourism
Having been launched on a Soyuz FG rocket at 1212 GMT from the Baikonur launch site, near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan on 19 December 2012, the Soyuz TMA-07M/ISS-33S spacecraft docked with the Rassvet module of the International Space Station at 1409 GMT on 21...
by David Todd | Jul 12, 2012 | commercial launch services, Personal spaceflight, Seradata News, Space tourism
Farnborough 2012 was characterised by shower clouds, air displays (the A380 is flying) and Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo. Courtesy: Flightglobal/David Todd Despite displays by and order annoucements for Airbus and Boeing aircraft, the Farnborough International...
by David Todd | May 18, 2012 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, Personal spaceflight, Seradata News, Space tourism, Spaceport
The United Kingdom’s Institude of Directors (IoD) has commissioned a report into Britain’s Space Industry. The report called Space: Britain’s New Space Infrastructure notes how well the space business is doing in the United...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 28, 2010 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital, Technology
French aerospace company Dassault Aviation’s In the Air newsletter issue 14 has provided an update on its spaceflight related activities and teased us with the prospect of an imminent report outlining a possible future for the European suborbital vehicle VSH, or...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 22, 2010 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Spaceport, Suborbital, Technology, Virgin Galactic, White Knight
Watch this 22s video of Virgin Galactic’s first SpaceShipTwo (SS2) captive carry flight on 22 March 2010 as the WhiteKnight Twi, SS2 vehicles pass over Mojave
by Rob Coppinger | Feb 12, 2010 | Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Technology
Meet Alpha the new suborbital vehicle under study for the European Union, or perhaps I should add the forerunner to Alpha that was called Phoenix, built by EADS Astrium (then known as Space) and tested in 2004 for the German Aerospace Centre DLR Phoenix was a subscale...
