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 2, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, Constellation, COTS, ESA, exploration, History, International Space Station, JAXA, NASA, Personal spaceflight, Russia, Satellites, Soyuz, space station, Space tourism, Spaceport, Suborbital, Technology, Virgin Galactic
Hyperbola is launching to the Oort cloud for a week’s R&R from today and will be returning via Daejeon, Korea from the 12 October. In Daejeon Hyperbola will be blogging from the International Astronautical Congress, where the world’s space...
by Rob Coppinger | Aug 5, 2009 | Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital, Technology, Virgin Galactic
Hyperbola has heard that following the rocket motor tests that Virgin Galactic publicised with videos earlier this year (and its prime contractor Scaled Composites reported on its online test logs) work is focusing on the flight weight engineIn all rocket...
by Rob Coppinger | Jul 22, 2009 | Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital, Virgin Galactic, White Knight
Has Scaled Composites made further changes to the rudder of its WhiteKnight Two prototype Eve? In the company’s online log for its WK2 prototype’s flight test 13 it says: “Eval control surface mods, Eval pitot probe relocation, Intstrument approach...
by Rob Coppinger | Jul 1, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, Space tourism, Spaceport, Suborbital
At the Royal Aeronautical Society’s 30 June 2009 space tourism conference Xcor Aerospace chief operating officer Andrew Nelson and Space Adventures vice president sales and marketing Tom Shelley answered the audiences’ questions after each giving a...
