An all-too-brief article in BizCommunity.com ( “South Africa’s leading daily advertising, marketing and media news resource for the industry!”) reports that a South African advertising firm is contemplating advertising to SpaceShipTwo passengers—in flight. Details are sketchy, but apparently Net#work BBDO (yes, the “#” character is part of their name), which is Virgin’s ad agency in […]
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Flight International reports that Prodea Systems, the company founded by the Ansari family, has yet to make a decision on investing in the development of the Explorer suborbital vehicle proposed by Russia’s Myasishchev Design Bureau. The article notes that “Anousheh Ansari says the company is only funding a feasibility study that will continue for several […] New Scientist is on the scene at the ISPS in Las Cruces and reports that The da Vinci Project (or, more accurately, “The GoldenPalace.com Space Program – Powered by the da Vinci Project”) has unveiled designs for a new series of suborbital passenger vehicles. The XF1 is a single-person design that would initially be launched […] David Bowie, it seems, has no desire to be a real-life Major Tom. According to a report from the entertainment news service bangshowbiz.biz, Bowie has said rumors that he has signed up to fly on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo are “total tosh”. (We’re not completely sure what “total tosh” means, but it doesn’t sound too favorable.) […] An article today in the Decatur (Ala.) Daily about the FTC’s approval of the United Launch Alliance includes this passage: “Decatur might want to rename itself Space Port America,” said Loren Thompson, Ph.D., a military and aerospace analyst at the Lexington Institute in Arlington, Va., and a Lockheed consultant. Since Thompson immerses himself in military […] For this week’s issue of The Space Review, I wrote a more detailed report on Thursday’s SpaceShipTwo event in New York. In addition to the details about the SS2 cabin itself, there’s some discussion about how Virgin Galactic is putting SS2 in a larger context, seeing it as a step towards low-cost orbital spaceflight, and […] One picture from this morning’s event: Richard Branson gives two thumbs up sitting in one of the chairs in the SS2 cabin mockup. Note the “view” outside the porthole. The Wall Street Journal reported in this morning’s issue that Jim Benson, founder of SpaceDev, is creating a new space tourism-oriented startup, Benson Space Company (BSC). (The Journal requires a subscription, but you may be able to read the article for free here). Benson is stepping down as chairman and CTO of SpaceDev to start […] A couple of former X Prize teams plan on appearing, albeit not competing, at the X Prize Cup next month. Via the Lunar Lander Challenge blog is a press release from the da Vinci Project announcing that they plan to participate in the Cup and “show casing a new design”, and well as planning some […] |
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X Prize 2nd anniversary
Today marks the second anniversary of SpaceShipOne’s capture of the $10-million Ansari X Prize with its second suborbital spaceflight in under a week. (Of course, they didn’t officially get the check until a ceremony in St. Louis the following month; details, details.) MSNBC’s Alan Boyle reflects on the anniversary and asks, in essence: dude, where’s […]