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Cut-price small satellite launch system unveiled by Virgin Galactic
Suborbital space tourism company Virgin Galactic announced at the recent Farnborough International Air Show in the UK that work had started on the development of a small satellite launch rocket, designated LauncherOne, that will be dropped from...By: Keith Campbell
27 Jul 12
Space
Cut-price small satellite launch system unveiled by Virgin Galactic
Suborbital space tourism company Virgin Galactic announced on Wednesday that work had started on the development of a small satellite launch rocket, designated LauncherOne, that will be dropped from the company’s WhiteKnightTwo (WK2) carrier...By: Keith Campbell
11 Jul 12
Aerospace
Tourist spacecraft to make test flight into space before end of 2012
The first powered test flights of the prototype suborbital passenger spacecraft SpaceShipTwo (SS2) will take place next year, US journal Aviation Week has reported. The SS2 has been developed by US company Scaled Composites on behalf of Sir...By: Keith Campbell
07 Oct 11
Aerospace
Tourist spacecraft powered test flights will start next year
US journal Aviation Week is reporting that the first powered test flights of the prototype suborbital passenger spacecraft SpaceShipTwo (SS2) will take place next year. SS2 has been developed by US company Scaled Composites on behalf of Sir...By: Keith Campbell
22 Sep 11
Space
$1,6m deal seeks to ensure scientific spin-offs from space tourism
Independent US not-for-profit applied physical sciences and engineering research and development organisation Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has signed a $1,6-million contract with space tourism company Virgin Galactic to fly scientists and...By: Keith Campbell
11 Mar 11
Space
Commercial deals to put US scientists on to suborbital space flights
Independent US not-for-profit applied physical sciences and engineering research and development organisation Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has signed a $1,6-million contract with space tourism company Virgin Galactic to fly scientists and...By: Keith Campbell
02 Mar 11
space tourism
Technologies rapidly being developed to put space tourism within reach
For decades, if not longer, many science fiction stories simply assumed that, one day, tourists would enter and traverse space, with space tourism simply forming a background element in their plots. It was probably in 1967 that space conferences...
By: Keith Campbell
10 Dec 10
Space
Technologies rapidly being developed to put space tourism within reach
For decades, if not longer, many science fiction stories simply assumed that, one day, tourists would enter and traverse space, with space tourism simply forming a background element in their plots. It was probably in 1967 that space conferences...
By: Keith Campbell
10 Dec 10
Aerospace & Leisure
Space tourism plan emerging from ashes of scrapped freighter programme
WHILE Airbus has suspended its programme to develop the A380F, the freighter version of its superjumbo A380 airliner, a European research consortium has come up with a novel new role for the freighter aircraft � as a launch platform for...By: Keith Campbell
01 Jun 07
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