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 | Jan 28, 2014 | Commercial human spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital, Technology, Virgin Galactic
While the space tourism firm, Virgin Galactic, has conceded that US security regulations preclude it accepting bookings from high paying Chinese would-be space tourists, the firm does seem set on finally flying into space later this year. Nevertheless, many...
by David Todd | Dec 11, 2013 | exploration, Personal spaceflight, Satellites, Space tourism, Technology
The plan to start a colony on the planet Mars, funded by reality television, had a filip in December when the Mars One not-for-profit organisation involved announced that it had signed design contracts with two major space companies. A $250,000 mission concept study...
by David Todd | Nov 15, 2013 | ESA, History, Satellites, Science, Space tourism, Technology
While the UK Space Agency basks in the plaudits and adulation received recently both from the UK Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee and from other independent commentators, it hopes to maintain the momentum as it publishes its latest plan for future...
by David Todd | Oct 25, 2013 | Commercial human spaceflight, NASA, Space tourism
While we at the Flightglobal Hyperbola spaceflight blog do sometomes go “off piste” as we write about other subjects with only loose links to spaceflight, we do however like to draw a line to define exactlly where space (and space stories) start and...
by David Todd | Apr 30, 2013 | Commercial human spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital, Virgin Galactic, White Knight
Virgin Galactic has released some video of its SpaceShipTwo making its engine firing and then going supersonic. And it is apparent from the footage that the design still has a slight wing rocking issue as afflicted its predecessor SpaceShipOne which had a...
