by Rob Coppinger | Feb 12, 2010 | Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Technology
Meet Alpha the new suborbital vehicle under study for the European Union, or perhaps I should add the forerunner to Alpha that was called Phoenix, built by EADS Astrium (then known as Space) and tested in 2004 for the German Aerospace Centre DLR Phoenix was a subscale...
by Rob Coppinger | Feb 5, 2010 | Ares, Commercial human spaceflight, Constellation, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Orion, Personal spaceflight
Tweeted yesterday by Hyperbola, below is the full text of Scaled Composites founder Burt Rutan’s response to Associated Press science writer Alicia Chang:That is not a “NASA plan”; it is the proposed budget from the White House. It will likely...
by Rob Coppinger | Jan 21, 2010 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, NASA, Personal spaceflight, Technology
Following Space Exploration Technologies’ Elon Musk’s salvo the Commercial Spaceflight Federation has also responded to the NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel comments on commercial launch providers:Since the ASAP correctly points out that NASA has not...
by Rob Coppinger | Dec 7, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Spaceport, Virgin Galactic, White Knight
all images credited to Virgin Galactic – click on any to see a larger version in the same browser window
by Rob Coppinger | Nov 19, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, ESA, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital
So the blogosphere is getting all worked up about an article run by Space News and authored by two former senior European Space Agency launcher officials that attacks sub-orbital tourism and hopes for commercial orbital transportHyperbola stresses the word former...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 15, 2009 | Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Virgin Galactic
Inflatable domes, laser lights, a sunset and documentary film makers could all be features of Virgin Galactic’s Monday 7 December roll-out of its SpaceShipTwo at Scaled Composites’ Mojave air and spaceport hangars in California – above SS2 is filmed...
