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A design that proposes an aircraft which can reach suborbital altitudes after taking off form a standard airport runway is currently being considered by experts at the European Space Agency (ESA). The organization is very interested in affordable access to these intermediary altitudes.
Conducting microgravity resea... |
2 May 2012
10:33 GMT |
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Commercial suborbital spacecraft are about to begin conducting flights over the next couple of years, but analysts cannot help but wonder whether or not this emerging industry will be successful. They say that thousands of successful flights may be required in order to assess that.
What experts are referring to is f... |
14 March 2012
08:33 GMT |
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Though heavily subsidized by NASA, the private space industry is still in its earliest days, and could easily go under if it doesn't manage to garner more interest from the general public. To avoid this, an astronomer is proposing that pop icon Justin Bieber be launched in space. The scientist says that such a... |
1 March 2012
08:41 GMT |
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The CEO and president of private suborbital spaceflight company Virgin Galactic, George Whitesides, announced on January 20 that the WhiteKnightTwo / SpaceShipTwo combo is nearly ready to enter commercial use. The two aircraft will take paying passengers on suborbital joyrides.
The company has taken an innovative ap... |
4 February 2012
05:40 GMT |
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The American space agency has just included 7 more companies in its Flight Opportunities Program, which funds near-space flight services on commercial platforms. In other words, these companies integrate and fly scientific or technological payload to the edge of space and back.This is a very important thing for resea... |
10 August 2011
03:45 GMT |
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Virgin Galactic appears to have indeed built one of the most impressive, private spacecraft ever. Their SpaceShipTwo, and its carrier WhiteKnightTwo, are now completing one successful test flight after another, validating systems and performances ahead of entering active use.
The aircraft duo is designed to take ... |
25 June 2011
03:55 GMT |
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One of the main space-related demands that US President Barack Obama made for the next fiscal year was the augmentation of the Office of Commercial Space Transportation's budget by $26.6 million. But the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) disproves of this measure. In a recent hearing held by members of t... |
11 May 2011
09:58 GMT |
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Officials with Virgin Galactic announced recently that the company has just signed an agreement with the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) of Colorado, for several seats on the upcoming suborbital flights that the corporation is scheduled to being flying. At this point, Virgin is constructing and testing its own fl... |
28 February 2011
10:48 GMT |
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Officials with the European Space Agency (ESA) say that the suborbital flight is the new frontier in space, providing a low-cost, shorter-duration alternative to fully-fledged orbital sorties. As such, the agency is currently accepting proposals about how suborbital flights could be best exploited.
When a spacecr... |
8 December 2010
05:42 GMT |
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Engineering teams at private space company Virgin Galactic are currently working very hard on getting their suborbital spacecraft ready to fly commercially, with paying passengers. Though that has not yet materialized, the corporation is already eying orbital flights, but keeps mum about it. The SpaceShipTwo – ... |
30 November 2010
03:11 GMT |
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Under an agreement signed recently by representatives from Mojave, California-based company Masten Space Systems and Space Florida, the private space business will be allowed to conduct demonstration launches from a launch pad in Cape Canaveral. The company is currently developing a reusable suborbital spacecraft con... |
29 November 2010
10:40 GMT |
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Officials at Virgin Galactic announced that their SpaceShipTwo suborbital space plane managed to carry out its first successful solo test flight yesterday, October 10.The flight, which saw the aircraft being released by its WhiteKnightTwo carrier, took place above the California-based Mojave Air and Space Port.Though... |
11 October 2010
04:22 GMT |
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Officials at NASA announce that the American space agency has just awarded two new grants for space vehicles that can potentially go to the edge of space. The agency is seeking to promote interest in this field from private corporations that have an interest in space exploration. The new grants are worth a total of $... |
31 August 2010
04:28 GMT |
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A group of scientists and space industry representatives said at a meeting on July 23 that the world could benefit from small prices on suborbital flights by 2014. According to speakers at the Space Frontier Foundation's annual conference, which was held in Sunnyvale, California, a ticket on such a joy ride coul... |
26 July 2010
02:45 GMT |
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The private company Virgin Galactic, which has recently taken huge strides towards becoming the first entity to provide affordable access to suborbital altitudes, has another reason to be proud. Yesterday, March 22, it conducted the first of a series of test flights, aimed at assessing the performances of the SpaceSh... |
23 March 2010
04:12 GMT |
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Representatives of companies that are currently actively involved in achieving manned, commercial suborbital flight capabilities salute a new set of laws that could make their jobs a lot easier. The officials say that the new piece of legislation that New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson signed into effect on February... |
10 March 2010
02:40 GMT |
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While only a stuff of fantasy some years ago, Spaceport America is currently becoming a hard reality. In the remote deserts of New Mexico, bulldozers and similar machines are constructing the world's first purpose-built spaceport, a facility designed to accommodate the needs of horizontal landings and take-offs... |
28 January 2010
09:39 GMT |
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Just last week, the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) allowed Cecil Filed, a former naval air base, to become the seventh spaceport in the United States. The documents the airfield received ensure that, in the very near future, it will be used as a starting point for horizontal take-offs to suborbital flights. One goo... |
19 January 2010
01:35 GMT |
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Billionaire Jeff Bezos, of Amazon.com fame, is currently involved in constructing a new spacecraft, which is designed to be capable of routinely flying numerous astronauts to suborbital flights, at very low prices. The Bezos Blue Origin business plan is currently undergoing testings at a private launch site in Texas,... |
24 November 2009
03:36 GMT |
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A Tampa Bay, Florida-based enterprise, freshly opened for business on May 1, is offering would-be space tourists all the training they need for suborbital flights, in what the owners have termed a “space camp on steroids.” Aurora Aerospace offers customers a complete training regimen at its facility in th... |
2 June 2009
05:12 GMT |
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