April 2019
Building the UK’s first spaceport
... demanding requirements posed by both horizontal launch and suborbital space tourism, which may feature in longer term... be at some distance from the ground facility. Supporting suborbital flights, which can operate for several hours in the vicinity ...
19 June 2017
"The most efficient rocket engine in the world" to be launched by ARCA
... budget constraints, the design was not implemented. ARCA is also considering using the Demonstrator 3 to begin commercial suborbital flight services as the simple and low cost rocket can carry a payload of 30 kilograms up to 100 kilometres altitude...
March 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
.... Writing in the UK’s Daily Mail tabloid newspaper, one commentator described Richard Branson’s and Jeff Bezos’ initial suborbital flights as “an utterly pointless exercise in inflating egos that already dwarf the size of the average planet… proof...
01 October 2021
FAA investigating Blue Origin safety procedures after open letter from ex-employees
... with whistleblowers. The essay goes on to say that safety concerns about Blue Origin’s New Shepard crewed suborbital flight, which took place on 20 July, were dismissed in an atmosphere that discourages dissent and free discussion. “This suppression...
31 December 2021
Space missions to watch out for in 2022
...sampling asteroid material and moon dust, the first crewed suborbital flights for Blue Origin and the first all-civilian crew... at reaching the space station after its first, Orbital Test Flight-1 (OFT-1), failed to reach the ISS after succumbing to ...
10 December 2020
SpaceX's Starship test flight explodes during vertical landing manoeuvre
...carry people to Mars in as little as six years. "This suborbital flight is designed to test a number of objectives, from how the ... of the Starship rocket carried out short 500-foot test flights, but Wednesday's test was intended to reach 41,000 feet...
