by David Todd | May 8, 2019 | Launches, Seradata News, Suborbital
At 1135 GMT the Blue Origin conducted another unmanned suborbital launch of its New Shepard launch vehicle/carrier spacecraft (Mark II) with an unofficial altitude achieved of 105.6 km above the Van Horn launch site in Texas. The launch is counted by Seradata as a...
by David Todd | Feb 26, 2019 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Suborbital, Virgin Galactic
At 1607 GMT on 15 February a Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Unity rocketplaine was air-dropped from its carrier aircraft Over the Mojave air strip in California, at. Aboard was David Mackay – the main test pilot and his co-pilot Mike “Sooch” Masucci (Co-Pilot). ...
by David Todd | Jan 25, 2019 | Blue Origin, Space tourism, Suborbital
While Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos might have his expensive divorce on his mind, at least his rocket ambitions are showing progress. His Blue Origin firm made the 10th test flight of its suborbital New Shepard rocket at 1505 GMT on 23 January 2019 from the Van Horn...
by David Todd | Dec 12, 2018 | Launches, Suborbital
Space News reports that Astra Space Inc – a successor company to Ventions, the California pump-fed rocket engine developer – is reported to have had a failure of its second test rocket on 29 November 2018 flying on a south-southwesterly track out of the...
by Philip Hylands | Oct 3, 2018 | commercial launch services, Seradata News, Suborbital, Technology
The German Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM) and Spanish, new-space, launch provider, PLD Space signed an agreement on 2 October, during the 69th IAC in Bremen, Germany, for the first test flight of the Arion 1 sub-orbital launch vehicle. The...
by David Todd | Aug 7, 2018 | Commercial human spaceflight, Seradata News, Suborbital, Virgin Galactic
The Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo rocket plane, VSS Unity, has made its third test flight, and the seventh in total for the SpaceShipTwo rocketplane design. The first four were flown by VSS Enterprise but it was destroyed in an accident involving premature feathering...
