October 2019
Skyrora – building on British space heritage
The private launch vehicle market is currently dominated by a few big names like SpaceX, Virgin Galactic and Rocket Lab but with more than 10,000 smallsats predicted to be launched worldwide over the next 10 ...
October 2021
Technology transfer and the ‘local’ space market
... and applications and their terrestrial counterparts. The endeavours of companies such as Blue Origin, SpaceX and Virgin Galactic symbolise the increasing growth of the commercial space sector, an industry segment that is opening its previously...
29 July 2015
SpaceShipTwo crash: dramatic testimony by Peter Siebold could offer new clues for space tourism safety
The tragedy at Virgin Galactic was just described in harrowing detail by the pilot who survived it. It can also offer us a valuable look at improving ...
March 2015
Supplanting the state: rewards and risks
... a governmental monopoly on space travel and exploration. Seeing that physical satellite size was shrinking, Branson founded Virgin Galactic in 2004 in anticipation of the need for much smaller, low-cost systems for launching these smaller satellites...
May 2017
Spaceplane rationale - a new way of thinking
... world non-stop. The present record, held by the Virgin Galactic Voyager, is just once. To fly one-and-a-half ... space experience flights. The activities of Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic in particular have been influential in shifting the mind ...
May 2019
A matter of perspective
... New Mexican desert. The futuristic building, designed by architect Lord Norman Foster, will be the hub for Virgin Galactic and other private space companies. Using local materials, Spaceport America is both sustainable and sensitive to its...
