The city of Aurora, Colorado could become home to a new American spaceport, if state officials manage to set a new project in motion. They suggest that the Front Range Airport can be converted to support suborbital launches with moderate investments.
The FRA occupies a total of 4,000 acres (1,619 hectares) of land,... |
23 May 2012
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Officials with Virgin Galactic, the company developing the SpaceShipTwo suborbital aircraft, say that the vehicle's first powered flight could occur by the end of this year. If the test is successful, then commercial rides to the edge of space could begin as early as 2013 or 2014.
The suborbital aircraft can r... |
29 February 2012
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Virgin Galactic is a space tourist firm that has been trying for quite some time now to make the dream of suborbital space flights possible for the wealthy. It plans on doing so by using a craft known as SpaceShipTwo, which is able to achieve impressive heights for a few minutes, before plunging back into the atmosph... |
1 June 2009
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has signed a collaboration agreement with space craft developer Virgin Galactic (VG) to facilitate its studies of the climate changes on our planet. NOAA monitoring equipment will be placed on board of all VG aircrafts that will be performing orbital flights ... |
3 October 2008
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One of the most expected events of the year regarding suborbital space tourism took place yesterday at Scaled Composites in Mojave with the unveiling of Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo, a jet powered carrier aircraft that will act as a launch pad for the SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane. The event signals the... |
29 July 2008
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The direct descendant of the X Prize winner of 2004 SpaceShipOne has been revealed yesterday at New York, and it seems that the design phase took some unexpected twists. Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo rocket plane will be carried and dropped at altitudes of about 15 kilometers into the Earth's atmosphere wi... |
24 January 2008
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