03 October 2021
Test Gods - Tragedy and Triumph in the New Space Race
...develop a space tourism company. It tells the story of Virgin Galactic’s 17-year struggle to bring a spaceship into service and render... to the book’s blurb, the author “knows Virgin Galactic intimately [having] spent nearly four years embedded with...
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’...
October 2024
Space industry trajectory under the spotlight of cultural anthropology
...invention of Concorde and the exploration of Antarctica, as a way of understanding technological ventures such as Virgin Hyperloop and Virgin Galactic. I have also endeavoured to shine a spotlight on congressional discourse, annual budgets, fictional...
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...
