http://www.newspacejournal.com/2009/03/26/what-does-astriums-decision-mean-for-suborbital-spaceflight/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://www.newspacejournal.com/2009/03/26/what-does-astriums-decision-mean-for-suborbital-spaceflight/comment-page-1/#comment-385560 Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:19:28 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/?p=826#comment-385560 There main customer is the government. (As it has been for all the US developers to date.) If Oklahoma and New Mexico want suborbital space flight, why not France? It’s a harder story to tell when groups with much less public funding are proceeding.

]]> http://www.newspacejournal.com/2009/03/26/what-does-astriums-decision-mean-for-suborbital-spaceflight/comment-page-1/#comment-384748 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:59:17 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/?p=826#comment-384748 Doubt they have had serious interest… I see it as them trying to scare the little fish out of their big water.

]]> http://www.newspacejournal.com/2009/03/26/what-does-astriums-decision-mean-for-suborbital-spaceflight/comment-page-1/#comment-384676 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:32:50 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/?p=826#comment-384676 […] tourism companies (with the exception of Astrium, as previously noted) have remained optimistic about their prospects despite the current economic crisis. Virgin […]

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