by David Todd | Oct 16, 2014 | Commercial human spaceflight, NASA, Seradata News, Technology
The industry magazine and web news channel, Aviation Week and Space Technology, has disclosed that the Sierra Nevada Corp (SNC) bid to obtain NASA Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CctCap) funding lost out to Boeing and SpaceX because of concerns over...
by David Todd | Sep 15, 2014 | Commercial human spaceflight, Seradata News, Space tourism
In the long running saga of Virgin Galactic’s planned commercial suborbital launch service, Sir Richard Branson has publically admitted on the David Letterman television show that the first commercial flight of his Virgin Galactic’s suborbital launch...
by David Todd | Sep 10, 2014 | Commercial human spaceflight, NASA, SpaceX
Executives at Boeing, Sierra Nevada and SpaceX will be biting their nails in anticipation on which one or two teams NASA will award actual crew transportation contracts (worth a total of US$3 billion) to. This already-delayed announcement is expected imminently. ...
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 | Mar 31, 2014 | Add category, Commercial human spaceflight, NASA, Satellites, Science
NASA has announced that its Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) will be launched by an air-launched Orbital Sciences Corp’ Pegasus XL launch vehicle in October 2016 from near Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Designed in conjunction...
by David Todd | Jan 28, 2014 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, Personal spaceflight
The Sierra Nevada Corporation has officially booked a flight (announced 23 January 2014) on an Atlas V launch vehicle for its reusable Dream Chaser manned transportation vehicle’s first orbital test flight. The spacecraft is set to be launched in November 2016...
