by Rob Coppinger | Dec 7, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Spaceport, Virgin Galactic, White Knight
all images credited to Virgin Galactic – click on any to see a larger version in the same browser window
by Rob Coppinger | Nov 5, 2009 | commercial launch services, Satellites, Virgin Galactic
This design for Virgin Galactic’s mini satellite launching rocket LauncherOne was shown by the company’s small satellite launch general manager Adam Baker at the 60th International Astronautical Congress in Daejeon, Korea in October. For a more colourful...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 15, 2009 | Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Virgin Galactic
Inflatable domes, laser lights, a sunset and documentary film makers could all be features of Virgin Galactic’s Monday 7 December roll-out of its SpaceShipTwo at Scaled Composites’ Mojave air and spaceport hangars in California – above SS2 is filmed...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 11, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, Constellation, COTS, ESA, exploration, International Space Station, JAXA, NASA, Orion, Russia, Satellites, Soyuz, Space Shuttle, Space tourism, Technology, Virgin Galactic
So Hyperbola has finally touched down in Daejeon in south Korea, after a scorching reentry from the Oort cloud, or was that just the effect of the Korean spicy Kimchi pickle and the even more spicy red pepper paste, Kochu Chang, they put on most of their food? Either...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 2, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, Constellation, COTS, ESA, exploration, History, International Space Station, JAXA, NASA, Personal spaceflight, Russia, Satellites, Soyuz, space station, Space tourism, Spaceport, Suborbital, Technology, Virgin Galactic
Hyperbola is launching to the Oort cloud for a week’s R&R from today and will be returning via Daejeon, Korea from the 12 October. In Daejeon Hyperbola will be blogging from the International Astronautical Congress, where the world’s space...
by Rob Coppinger | Aug 5, 2009 | Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital, Technology, Virgin Galactic
Hyperbola has heard that following the rocket motor tests that Virgin Galactic publicised with videos earlier this year (and its prime contractor Scaled Composites reported on its online test logs) work is focusing on the flight weight engineIn all rocket...
