15 April 2019
Stratolaunch completes maiden flight successfully
... the prize, the craft was immediately retired from active service. Stratolaunch follows a similar principle to Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, the world’s first passenger carrying spaceship to be built by a private company, in that it takes off and...
15 September 2021
SpaceX ready to launch private, all-civilian crew into Earth orbit
... into space than the International Space Station (ISS). This is significantly further than the spaceflights offered by Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin, which settle for the Kármán line; an imaginary border 100 kilometres (62 miles) above Earth...
15 July 2016
The Week in Space: Business Digest, July 8-15
... Ariane 6 rockets; Deimos Space UK, associated with Firefly Space Systems (USA); Lockheed Martin (USA); Orbital ATK (UK); Virgin Galactic. So far the British government' policy regarding the spaceport has been limited to helping with the legal...
17 April 2019
Wally Funk’s Race for Space
... early exploits to her current dreams. Now 80, Wally Funk still hopes to get into space aboard one of Virgin Galactic’s suborbital flights but, as Nelson points out, it’s “a race against time”. The book is written partly from the...
01 August 2019
Planetary Echoes: exploring the implications of human settlement in outer space
... their words. For example, Branson’s contribution (which is probably ghost-written anyway) comes across as an advert for Virgin Galactic, while Andy Weir’s piece is simply a one-page quote from his book ‘The Martian’ (the page...
01 April 2025
Who Owns Outer Space?
...and ultra-rich tourists. In a series of vignettes, the authors highlight a Florida couple with tickets for both Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin flights; the destruction of the Kosmos 1408 satellite by a “powerful military [demonstrating] a capability...
