March 2021
Eyes on the prize
... Ansari XPRIZE was awarded to Mojave Aerospace Ventures for SpaceShipOne. The team’s winning technology was licensed by Richard Branson to create Virgin Galactic. With huge changes in the global market the UK cannot focus on incremental gains...
January 2022
International cooperation - the key to survival on Earth and in space
... a government agency. We also have to consider how we define ‘space’: do we define the flights that Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson have made as sub-orbital flights and define this as entering space, or do we confine the definition to orbital flights...
March 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
...on Earth has been so favourably impressed. Writing in the UK’s Daily Mail tabloid newspaper, one commentator described Richard Branson’s and Jeff Bezos’ initial suborbital flights as “an utterly pointless exercise in inflating egos that already dwarf...
14 October 2019
First dedicated commercial smallsat mission to Mars unveiled
Sir Richard Branson’s small satellite launch company Virgin Orbit has teamed up with Poland-based satellite company SatRevolution and ...
10 January 2020
Virgin Galactic's second spaceship completes a major build milestone
... were reported as the reasons behind the swift progress of this second build. Meanwhile, Virgin Galactic boss Richard Branson took to Twitter to congratulate the team behind the build. “Congratulations to the team as the second spaceship...
15 April 2020
Successful test clears the way for Virgin Orbit's first-ever launch
... compound very similar to that which will be carried on operational flights - super cold liquid oxygen. Founded by Richard Branson, Virgin Orbit is a branch of the billionaire’s Virgin Group of companies, which also includes the Virgin Galactic space...
