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Suborbital Spotlight: Blue Origin’s New Shepard Platform
NASA’s Office of Chief Technologist has published detailed information about suborbital vehicles that will be available beginning in 2011 for researchers to conduct microgravity experiments. The...
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NASA Seeks Proposals for Suborbital Flights
NASA ANNOUNCEMENT NASA is seeking proposals from researchers interested in testing new technologies during suborbital flights. The agency also is requesting information from commercial suborbital...
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Suborbital Spotlight: Masten’s Xaero and Xogdor Vehicles
The Xaero vehicle during assembly November 2010. (Credit: Masten Space Systems) NASA’s Office of Chief Technologist has published detailed information about suborbital vehicles that will be available...
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Scaled Composites Reports Excellent Progress on SpaceShipTwo Testing
SpaceShipTwo glides downward on its first test flight. (Photo: Mark Greenberg) Aviation Week reports that SpaceShipTwo testing is going ahead smoothly, with Scaled Composites officials predicting an...
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Suborbital Spotlight: Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo
Gear down on SpaceShipTwo. (Photo: Mark Greenberg) NASA’s Office of Chief Technologist has published detailed information about suborbital vehicles that will be available beginning in 2011 for...
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Suborbital Spotlight: XCOR’s Lynx Space Plane
XCOR's Lynx suborbital vehicle NASA’s Office of Chief Technologist has published detailed information about suborbital vehicles that will be available beginning in 2011 for researchers to conduct...
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EADS Astrium to Develop Suborbital Spaceplane With Singapore
EADS Astrium To Develop Spaceplane Aviation Week EADS Astrium has disclosed that Singapore will be a partner in its suborbital spaceplane program. At the Global Space & Technology Convention in...
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SwRI Purchases Six XCOR Lynx Flights
XCOR's Lynx suborbital vehicle XCOR/MOJAVE, Calif. – In a first for the reusable suborbital launch vehicle industry, XCOR Aerospace announced today that the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a...
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NASA’s CRuSR Program Threatened by House Budget
Another penny wise, pound foolish move by politicians supposedly concerned about America’s leadership in space. CRuSR is a small investment (a rounding error in NASA’s human spaceflight effort) that...
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Awesome Pic: XCOR’s Lynx With PSI’s Atsa Telescope
An XCOR rendering showing its Lynx suborbital space plane carrying aloft the Planetary Science Institute’s Atsa observatory.
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XCOR Wins NASA Contract for Suborbital Flight Services
August 12, 2011, Mojave, CA (XCOR PR): NASA has selected XCOR Aerospace to provide suborbital flight and payload integration services for research and scientific missions in a program that will offer...
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Goddard to Host Commercial Suborbital Vehicle Workshop Next Wednesday
GREENBELT, Md. — The Innovative Partnership Program at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. is hosting a an Emerging Commercial Suborbital Capabilities Vehicles Workshop at Goddard on...
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XCOR Signs Eight-Figure Deal With Space Expedition Curacao
XCOR PR — September 19, 2011, Mojave CA, USA and Curaçao: Space Expedition Curaçao (SXC) and XCOR Aerospace, Inc. jointly announced today the completion of a multi-million dollar transaction that...
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UP Aerospace Awarded NASA, DOD Contracts for Spaceport America Launches
UP AEROSPACE PR – NASA’s Office of Chief Technologist Launch Opportunities Program has awarded UP Aerospace a contract to integrate technology payloads and launch them into space on up to 8 flights...
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Blue Origin: Secrecy and Control Freakery
A couple of updates on the ever mysterious Blue Origin: At Popular Mechanics, Dave Mosher looks at what is known and unknown about Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ secretive suborbital and orbital projects....
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