by Rob Coppinger | Oct 12, 2007 | Commercial human spaceflight
Space.com has a report about the Personal Spaceflight symposium taking place in New Mexico on 24-25 October. I was there last year for the symposium, and my blog on that is here Hobbyspace has a link to an update on the Lunar Lander Challenge taking place at the 26-28...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 11, 2007 | Commercial human spaceflight
Sir Richard Branson talks about Virgin Galactic via this link and some comment on the likely in-service date for the suborbital service plus a report that Branson has renamed the first White Knight II (WK2), “The spirit of Steve Fossett”, can be found here...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 8, 2007 | Commercial human spaceflight, Satellites
More stuff as always from hobbyspace.com The head of India’s space agency worries about the fact that Google Earth has the capability to get images that show things governments would rather people could not see. Well personally I would be very happy to have an...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 5, 2007 | Commercial human spaceflight, NASA, Personal spaceflight, Satellites
NASASpaceflight.com apparently has some detail about NASA’s Lunar Lander progress. Flight reported on the Lander’s project office’s plans back in July with an expected first design analysis cycle to be completed by August. Russia is to provide...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 2, 2007 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital, Virgin Galactic
Just as SpaceX is presently the clear leader in the development of new orbital transportation systems, Virgin Galactic is now the only obvious candidate for the nascent suborbital market in the next few years. Unless Jeff Bezos’ ultra secret Blue Origin team spring a...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 1, 2007 | Commercial human spaceflight, COTS, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Virgin Galactic
Low Earth orbit tourism and NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) demonstration programme are not obviously linked but the intentions of one of COTS participants, California based-Space Exploration Technologies, could see commercial human...
