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...
by David Todd | May 26, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, COTS, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Spaceport, Suborbital, Technology
Hyperbola hears that the British Broadcasting Corporation has been in the USA filming for a new series of the science and technology programme Tomorrow’s World that was a feature of UK television from the 1960s to 2003Tomorrow’s World will apparently,...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 2, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, ESA, Space tourism, Spaceport, Suborbital
In June 2008 Flight reported that the European Space Agency had concluded, after some preliminary data, that suborbital passengers have a smaller carbon footprint than those that travel on airlinersAt the time Flight was told that the data would not be released...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 31, 2009 | ESA, Russia, Soyuz, Spaceport
The mobile gantry for the Samara Space Center Soyuz 2-1a (and eventually 2-1b) rocket’s CNES/European Space Agency spaceport in French Guiana is being constructed in Russia. Once check it is to be dismantled before its trip to South America The image is from the...
