by David Todd | Jul 5, 2018 | History, NASA, Seradata News, Technology
Mark Sirangelo is giving up his role as head of Sierra Nevada Corp’s (SNC) Space Systems division. Sirangelo gained that position after serving as CEO of SpaceDev, which SNC acquired in 2008. Fatih Ozmen, overall owner of the firm with his partner Eren, takes over...
by David Todd | Oct 7, 2016 | commercial launch services, Seradata News
Sierra Nevada Corp (SNC) and United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) have formally converted their previous Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to a full order for a Dream Chaser mission to carry hosted payloads from member countries. SNC’s Dream Chaser...
by David Todd | Nov 27, 2014 | commercial launch services, NASA, Virgin Galactic
Sierra Nevada Corp (SNC) had decided to shut down its propellant office building hybrid rocket engines in California after Virgin Galactic decided to change its rocket engine from a plastic based propellant burning hybrid built by SNC to one burning a rubber compound...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 5, 2010 | China, space station, Technology
Res Communis has reported on a presentation on prospects for space tourism in China by a Ms. Xu Si from the Beijing Institute of Technology – very probably an institution heavily involved in the space programmeI wrote for Flightglobal back in 2007 that...
by Rob Coppinger | Dec 9, 2009 | commercial launch services, Satellites, Spaceport
credit Flight / caption: Arianespace’s Ariane 5 GS stands on its launch padThe launch of France’s Helios 2B reconnaissance satellite has been cancelled for today and is to be rescheduled in a few days timeThe cancellation news came just after 10am local...
