by Olivia Beresford | Jun 30, 2023 | Adventure Travel, Editorial Comment, Flight, Space
At 8:30am MT, the Galactic 01 spaceflight took off from Spaceport America in New Mexico, reaching an altitude of around 53 miles. The spaceflight evaluated and measured hypergravity to microgravity transition effects on the human body, including both biological and...
by Olivia Beresford | Jun 30, 2023 | Adventure Travel, Editorial Comment, Flight, Space
This mission represents a new era in government-funded commercial human-tended research missions. The crew will board VSS Unity for a 90-minute flight to conduct a series of suborbital science experiments. The mission’s two objectives are to conduct 13 human-tended...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | May 3, 2023 | Editorial Comment, Space, Technology
Airbus Perlan Mission II, the world’s first initiative to pilot an engineless aircraft to the edge of space, has successfully completed a flight test campaign in the US, clearing the way for an attempt later this year to set a new aviation world altitude record for...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Apr 25, 2023 | Space
SpinLaunch, a space launch technology company committed to enabling the rapid, cost-effective deployment of small satellite constellations into Low Earth Orbit (LEO), has appointed Dómhnal Slattery as a strategic advisor to the company. Slattery joins the SpinLaunch...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Apr 5, 2023 | Flight, Space
Space launch provider, Virgin Orbit Holdings its US subsidiaries has filed a voluntary proceeding under Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court in the District of Delaware in order to effectuate a sale of the business. With the...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Feb 6, 2023 | Space
Virgin Orbit and Poland-based satellite manufacturer SatRev have announced a follow-on launch services agreement for the latter’s satellites. The deal gives SatRev “the flexibility to launch 500 kg over multiple launches to a variety of different orbital...
