03 October 2021
Test Gods - Tragedy and Triumph in the New Space Race
... tourism company. It tells the story of Virgin Galactic’s 17-year struggle to bring a spaceship into service and render Richard Branson’s dreams of space tourism a reality. According to the book’s blurb, the author “knows Virgin Galactic intimately...
March 2015
Sizing down and reaching higher with CubeSats
... growth in the utilisation and exploration of the frontier of space. Nothing speaks to this more than the announcements by Richard Branson at Virgin and Elon Musk of SpaceX that they are funding hundreds of satellites, to extend the Internet backbone...
March 2015
Supplanting the state: rewards and risks
... the risk (and cost) of any singular satellite failure. Small sats still need launchers Serial entrepreneur Richard Branson’s venture Virgin Galactic is another example of a commercial foray into what was previously a governmental monopoly on space...
01 August 2019
Planetary Echoes: exploring the implications of human settlement in outer space
...pages, we hear from such luminaries as Buzz Aldrin, Richard Branson and Norman Foster, which if nothing else provides a ... is little to learn from their words. For example, Branson’s contribution (which is probably ghost-written anyway) comes across...
December 2014
Skolkovo and a new breed of Russian space startups
.... Within a few years, a new generation of commercial companies appeared: enterprises currently classified as ‘Space 2.0’. Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic, began openly speaking about his plans of turning a profit on suborbital tourism...
October 2015
Russian business: a long road to the stars for private space initiative
... but not least, there’s Yaliny, which aims to be a satellite internet service provider competing head-to-head with Richard Branson’s OneWeb, as well as Google, Fidelity and SpaceX. Yaliny will deliver low-cost internet using 135 microsatellites...
