26 March 2018
Traveler program gets a boost with NanoRacks
... six passengers up to 20 kilometres above Earth – about twice the height that a commercial airline flies at – in an area known as near space. It should take around an half an hour to reach its maximum altitude and at that height, along with some...
December 2014
Flying saucers return
Spectacular catch – NASA’s Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator is retrieved from the Pacific after a near-space test flight. The LDSD project is evaluating landing technologies for future Mars missions
October 2017
Managing air and space traffic from orbit
... collisions. Technological, scientific and business developments are making great changes in our use of the airspace and near space environments and time is now pressing for the UNOOSA International Committee on GNSS and ICAO to come together...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
... and its reusable launch vehicle made headlines for carrying both the oldest and youngest persons to go to space (Mercury 13’s Wally Funk, aged 82, and Oliver Daemen, 18, respectively). The sophisticated publicity machines of these large companies...
31 March 2015
Media Spun Up on NASA Cutting-edge Mars Landing Technology
... flying a rocket-powered, saucer-shaped test vehicle into near-space from the Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii.../ldsd/ The LDSD mission is part of NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate, which is innovating, developing, testing...
17 December 2021
First commercial lunar distance communications network validated in space
... of Control Centers for IM. “This sends a powerful message that GES and IM together will be a major provider of near space network communications.” About Intuitive Machines Intuitive Machines' complete Lunar Payload Delivery Services (LPDS) program...
