March 2015
Sizing down and reaching higher with CubeSats
... development. But the future suggests even more opportunity for small satellite launches. Companies ranging from Virgin Galactic to XCOR to new entrants such as Rocket Lab in New Zealand are pouring hundreds of millions of into developing standalone...
August 2016
The promise of space tourism
... can finally live the dream onboard 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...
April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
...to human suborbital space flight, both Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic continued with their testing regimes, inching ever closer to ... due to enter the market shortly (Firefly, Orbex, Vector, Virgin Orbit, etc). Top: Ariane 5 has reached its ‘nirvana’...
July 2014
The hypersonic grail: advances at DARPA, AFRL and beyond
... space tourism (in contrast to the imminent suborbital space tourism that will be provided by companies such as Virgin Galactic); private re-supply of the International Space Station; lower-cost satellite delivery and possibly salvage or repair...
December 2014
Skolkovo and a new breed of Russian space startups
... new generation of commercial companies appeared: enterprises currently classified as ‘Space 2.0’. Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic, began openly speaking about his plans of turning a profit on suborbital tourism. Space startups mushroomed...
June 2015
Re-usable rockets: a new breakthrough for suborbital research
... expensive Cold War technologies. Today, thanks to dedicated efforts by next generation reusable suborbital rocket firms like Virgin Galactic, XCOR Aerospace, and Blue Origin, the field is on the verge of a revolution in how we access space. It will...
