August 2016
The promise of space tourism
... passenger spacecraft built by Virgin Airlines founder Richard Branson and Burt Rutan, the designer of history-making SpaceShipOne. Virgin Galactic’s passenger spacecraft can carry six people to the edge of space where they float weightless...
June 2017
Spaceplane rationale - a new way of thinking
...the mind set around space tourism from dream to a realistic prospect. However, its spaceplane - an enlarged development of SpaceShipOne - and others under construction, provide just a few minutes of zero gravity on top of a very steep flight. As such...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... and deploying PSSTT. In the past few years ‘new space’ companies and initiatives like the XPrize, SpaceShipOne, SpaceX, Skybox, O3b, ViaSat, Blue Origin, Stratolaunch/Viking, Virgin Galactic, etc. have embraced disruptive new...
August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
... of the mission - and the lives of all crew members Recent setbacks, such as the loss of Virgin Galactic SpaceShipOne, have been offset by the progress made in other areas with both Virgin Galactic and Xcor both...
July 2020
The four horsemen of space finance
... capital markets. Test pilot Brian Binnie, Paul Allen (Microsoft co-founder) and Burt Rutan standing beside SpaceShipOne. Allen is best remembered for being the sole financial backer of the Rutan-designed experimental private spacecraft...
March 2021
Eyes on the prize
... is at risk as the space sector changes. In 2004, the 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...
