Reviewing this week in spaceflight and upcoming events, it’s been another busy period. China now claims to be on track to land humans on the Moon by 2030, North Korea’s recent orbital launch failed, and Starliner’s Crewed Flight Test has been delayed yet again.
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With Blue Origin passengers set, suborbital tourism arrives after decades of work
After years of development, suborbital space tourism looks ready to lift off after Virgin Galactic…
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Seventeen years after Sir Richard Branson watched SpaceShipOne win the Ansari X-Prize, the English entrepreneur…
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Virgin Galactic has successfully performed the first human spaceflight from Spaceport America, just south of…
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CommercialInternationalMars
Year in Review: Mars missions, Lunar Samples, Crew launched from the US, and Starlink
Despite a worldwide pandemic which affected agencies around the world, 2020 featured many significant achievements…
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CommercialSpaceX
Preparing for “Earth to Earth” space travel and a competition with supersonic airliners
Commercial spaceflight companies are preparing to enter a new market: suborbital flights from one place…
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VSS Unity aborts after engine start, safely lands with crew back at Spaceport America
Virgin Galactic was to perform their first human spaceflight of their VSS Unity SpaceShipTwo vehicle…
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Carried by her mothership VMS Eve, Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity has arrived at Spaceport America…
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In a major sign Virgin Galactic is close to flying paying customers on its SpaceShipTwo…
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The “Roc” – Stratolaunch Systems Corporation’s air-launch carrier plane – has conducted its first test flight…
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Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket conducted its tenth test flight on Wednesday – marking another…
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Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo has moved into powered flight testing. The test comes early in the…
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Last weekend, Stratolaunch Systems performed high-speed taxi tests of the world’s largest aircraft by wingspan.…
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While Virgin Galactic prepare to restart test operations with its SpaceShipTwo vehicle, the company has…
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Virgin Galactic’s Senior Vice President of Operations, Mike Moses, spoke of the goal of installing a…
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Virgin Galactic – part of the Virgin corporation headed by Sir Richard Branson – has…
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Due to customer demand, Virgin Galactic claims it has nearly doubled the amount of payload…
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Commercial
NTSB SpaceShipTwo findings will serve to strengthen our resolve – Branson
by Chris BerginThe National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has provided details into the probable cause of the…
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One pilot has died and another seriously injured during a test flight failure of Virgin…
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Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo (SS2), slated to become the world’s first commercial manned spacecraft, is undergoing…