24 August 2018
First flight for EXOS's reusable suborbital rocket due tomorrow
... to MDA as “hard to acquire” targets as they near the end of their economically viable life. Not content with suborbital flights however, the company also has plans to follow-up with an orbital vehicle that will use NASA’s Morpheus...
January 2021
Taking out the trash in space
... system, power supply and trash feed system were customised and designed only for operation on a short suborbital flight, so some systems are currently at a low TRL and need to be redesigned for any long duration...
June 2015
Training space tourists to fly to the ISS at the Gagarin Centre
..., 100 kilometres in altitude. But the duration is so short that no serious work or tasks can be performed. This makes suborbital flight much cheaper, and will certainly affect the market by attracting clients with less money to spend. In 2001...
02 June 2016
XCOR lays off significant part of workforce
... is best known for its attempts to build a reusable suborbital spaceplane. Randy Baker, XCOR chief operating officer, has said... supposed to take off from a runway and go into suborbital flight before coming back for a runway landing, has been behind...
July 2019
Science and sensation in microgravity
... a non-governmental association for sustainable and economic development. Parabolic flights are the first step in the democratisation of access to the experience of spaceflight. Suborbital flights coming this year will allow one to experience five...
February 2016
The Benefits of a British Spaceport
... Lynx is a two-seat, piloted space transport vehicle that will take people and payloads on a half-hour suborbital flight to 100 km and then return to a landing at the takeoff runway. Currently it is the only fully reusable...
