by Rob Coppinger | Jun 2, 2008 | Virgin Galactic
I think I have an idea about the propulsion system that SpaceShipTwo (SS2) will use and with so many things in life the information that took me down this particular route came my way sort of out of the blue Oddly, in a bizarre twist of fate, Clark Lindsey mentioned...
by Rob Coppinger | Jan 23, 2008 | Virgin Galactic
Trouble was it was slow going out on the apron yesterday but I never expected to encounter Virgin Galactic adverts on my Virgin Atlantic upper class entertainment system And what is it with New York hotels and dark corridors?
by Rob Coppinger | Dec 7, 2007 | Virgin Galactic
We are all going to have to wait till late January for the official unveiling of Virgin Galactic’s Scaled Composites’ designed and developed White Knight II (WK2), SpaceShipTwo (SS2) launch system but at the third Rutherford Appleton Laboratory space...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 2, 2007 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital, Virgin Galactic
Just as SpaceX is presently the clear leader in the development of new orbital transportation systems, Virgin Galactic is now the only obvious candidate for the nascent suborbital market in the next few years. Unless Jeff Bezos’ ultra secret Blue Origin team spring a...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 1, 2007 | Commercial human spaceflight, COTS, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Virgin Galactic
Low Earth orbit tourism and NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) demonstration programme are not obviously linked but the intentions of one of COTS participants, California based-Space Exploration Technologies, could see commercial human...
