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Concept art for Virgin's LauncherOne (updated) (2009-11-06)
ParobolicArc posts a couple of concept drawings for Virgin Galactic's recently announced foray into the world of small satellite launching. The first has a cruise missile look to it and the ... [Read More]
First free glide of the VSS Enterprise (the first SpaceShipTwo) (2010-10-11)[Read More]
Astronaut Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger? (2009-02-24)Reportedly, Richard Branson has offered Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger a job at twice the salary of other Virgin pilots. This job offer comes with another option - becoming an astronaut ... [Read More]
new spaced-out magazine launching soon - UniGalactic (2009-03-01)Via a post on Rocketry Planet : UniGalactic is an online Space Travel Magazine with one simple mission - research and deliver (in either electronic or paper format) Space Travel relevant content ... [Read More]
Big day in the RLV and Space Transport News (2009-06-23)More missile-aneous stuff from Clark . Haven't read them...yet... Asabooster CD004 (pdf) - "a conceptual design for a [VTHL] reusable rocket vehicle able to lift 152 lbs with a total delta ... [Read More]
Orbital + Virgin = CCDev 2 (2010-12-13)Space News reports that Orbital Sciences Corp. is teaming with Virgin Galactic to bid on the the second phase of NASA's CCDev commercial crew transport effort. Orbital is expected to propose ... [Read More]
YAHP (yet another hodgepodge post) (2011-08-09)A reader provided links to photo essays about the Russian museum of the "NPP Zvezda" aerospace corporation. http://maksimzaitsev.livejournal.com/37521.html ( translated ) http://ru ... [Read More]
Feed reader stars - TGIF edition (2012-01-20)PWR [Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne] ad zaps SpaceX - RLV and Space Transport News (PWR has a good track record but that alone won't fend off the Falcon 9.) "Britain's Got Talent" could win ... [Read More]
Links roundup (2012-04-12)NASA Preps Atomic Clock for Deep Space GPS - Space.com - Accurate and stable clocks are central to position (orbit, attitude) control and communications and this will help immensely on both ... [Read More]
Links roundup (2012-07-12)Boris Katan's HellBoy, set up to fly on 19 E9's NASA Johnson Space Center’s Shuttle II (1988) , Wired Science (7/12, Portree) A Bugatti spaceship from Elysium has crashed into the San ... [Read More]
SpaceShip2's first powered flight (2013-04-29)SS2 hit mach 1.2 on its successful first powered flight! Photos below via SpaceFlightNow . Credit: MARS Scientific/Clay Center Observatory/Virgin Galactic ... [Read More]
Close up of SS2 during successful rocket-powered flight (2013-04-29)Close up of SS2 during successful rocket-powered flight , a photo by Virgin Galactic on Flickr. [Read More]
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