05 June 2017
The world's largest airplane gets its debut
... is also the company that built SpaceShipOne and White Knight Two – an aircraft that has been acquired by Virgin Galactic to add to their fleet of suborbital spaceplanes. The aircraft has now been moved out of its hangar for...
26 March 2018
Traveler program gets a boost with NanoRacks
... hopes to complete a trial with humans on board by 2019. With big companies such as Blue Origin, SpaceX and Virgin Galactic to compete against, KuangChi Science Limited are hoping to elbow their way into the space tourism industry...
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...
