April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
...be drawn from the past experience of private US launch vehicle businesses: Development of suborbital manned and unmanned launchers (Virgin Galactic & Blue Origin) has so far taken about 15-19 years and required $500 million+ of investment Development...
October 2015
Houston, we have a Spaceport
... Office of the Commercial Space Transportation (FAA/AST). To picture the type of launch that would be feasible, think of Virgin Galactic’s White Knight Two aircraft carrying the SpaceShipTwo vehicle. The operator’s license makes the Houston Spaceport...
February 2017
Opening up the infinite frontier
... things that are aligned with and can enable space settlement. Entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic. Some young Earth orbiting constellations fit this description, as they were started by people who intend to participate...
April 2021
Space industry trends in the pandemic
... with more than 100 transactions raising over $40 billion. Virgin Galactic became the first ‘pure play’ space IPO, via ...its own GPS constellation in low Earth orbit. Design for Virgin Galactic’s Mach 3 aircraft, unveiled in October 2020. The company...
20 July 2020
Hope launch heralds ambitious future space plans
... representing the United Arab Emirates’ space program were already looking ahead to future spacefaring plans: a spaceport Virgin Galactic is eyeing, in-space agriculture with Nanoracks, a Mars sample-return mission no one’s ever heard of — if one UAE...
07 June 2021
Bezos to join auction winner on first crewed New Shepard flight
... passengers to the edge of space, as its main rival, Virgin Galactic, does not expect to fly private customers until 2022. “When... and a former engineer at Blue Origin, SpaceX and Virgin Galactic, in an interview with the Financial Times. “If Jeff...
