by David Todd | Nov 24, 2014 | Commercial human spaceflight, Space tourism, Virgin Galactic
Following the fatal test flight accident to Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Seradata was approached by a world famous newswire service to provide some data on the relative risk of flying on a rocket powered space tourism flight. We did not have this exact data...
by David Todd | Oct 31, 2014 | Commercial human spaceflight, Seradata News, Virgin Galactic
In a tragic accident, would-be suborbital space tourism operator, Virgin Galactic, has suffered a total failure of its SpaceShipTwo passenger carrying vehicle during a test flight. The air-dropped spaceplane broke apart shortly after ignition of its hybrid rocket...
by David Todd | Jun 12, 2014 | commercial launch services, ESA, SpaceX, Suborbital, Virgin Galactic, White Knight
At the UK Launch Symposium held at the Roehampton Vale Campus of Kingston University which met in May, which had most of the UK’s space launch engineers and rocket scientists in attendance, there was a real feeling that the nation needs a launch vehicle –...
by David Todd | May 27, 2014 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Seradata News, Space tourism, Technology, Virgin Galactic
While it still has notional plans to make its first full suborbital spaceflight launch before the end of 2014, there remains doubts amongst Virgin Galactic’s critics whether this is still possible – not least because it has been revealed that the firm...
by David Todd | Jan 28, 2014 | Commercial human spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital, Technology, Virgin Galactic
While the space tourism firm, Virgin Galactic, has conceded that US security regulations preclude it accepting bookings from high paying Chinese would-be space tourists, the firm does seem set on finally flying into space later this year. Nevertheless, many...
by David Todd | Apr 30, 2013 | Commercial human spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital, Virgin Galactic, White Knight
Virgin Galactic has released some video of its SpaceShipTwo making its engine firing and then going supersonic. And it is apparent from the footage that the design still has a slight wing rocking issue as afflicted its predecessor SpaceShipOne which had a...
