by David Todd | Jan 8, 2013 | Commercial human spaceflight, exploration, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism
Northrop Grumman, the manufacturer in its Grumman-guise of the world’s only proven manned lunar lander, the Apollo programme’s lunar excursion module (LEM), has been awarded a contract to provide design studies for another lunar lander – this time...
by David Todd | Jun 26, 2012 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, Seradata News, SpaceX
On the successful firing of its Merlin 1D engine, Space Exploration Technologies, with more than a note of self congratulation, states that the “enhanced design makes the Merlin 1D the most efficient booster engine ever built” further noting that...
by David Todd | May 30, 2012 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, NASA, Satellites, Seradata News
Flushed with success after its Falcon 9/Dragon launch to the International Space Station, the Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) firm which was set up by former internet entrepreneur Elon Musk, has announced that it now has a commercial launch contract with...
by David Todd | May 18, 2012 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, Personal spaceflight, Seradata News, Space tourism, Spaceport
The United Kingdom’s Institude of Directors (IoD) has commissioned a report into Britain’s Space Industry. The report called Space: Britain’s New Space Infrastructure notes how well the space business is doing in the United...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 28, 2010 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital, Technology
French aerospace company Dassault Aviation’s In the Air newsletter issue 14 has provided an update on its spaceflight related activities and teased us with the prospect of an imminent report outlining a possible future for the European suborbital vehicle VSH, or...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 22, 2010 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Spaceport, Suborbital, Technology, Virgin Galactic, White Knight
Watch this 22s video of Virgin Galactic’s first SpaceShipTwo (SS2) captive carry flight on 22 March 2010 as the WhiteKnight Twi, SS2 vehicles pass over Mojave
