Courtesy of the Las Cruces Bulletin, by Todd G. Dickson The scaling back of government support for the traditional space program could be reversed if the new private space entrepreneurs are successful, said a keynote speaker on the first day of the two-day International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS). Robert Dickman, executive director [...]
Read MoreNew vehicle “LauncherOne” to transform small satellite market, as space tourism business powers into final leg of test flights Courtesy of Virgin Galactic Today during the Farnborough International Air Show 2012, Virgin Galactic, the world’s first commercial spaceline, announced “LauncherOne”, a new air-launched rocket specifically designed to deliver small satellites into orbit. With substantial funding [...]
Read MoreCourtesy of the Las Cruces Sun-News, by Brook Stockberger LAS CRUCES – Virgin Galactic has landed in Las Cruces. Well, the company already has been working in town for a couple of years and opened an office here in February, but it held an open house event on Thursday for its Las Cruces facility, located [...]
Read MoreArticle Courtesy of the Las Cruces Bulletin By Todd G. Dickson When Richard Branson dropped over the edge of the glass-walled balcony of the terminal hangar at Spaceport America Monday, Oct. 17, the danger was more for show to the 800 gathered there for a ceremonial dedication of the 110,152-square-foot facility. But after the champagne [...]
Read MoreArticle Courtesy of the Las Cruces Sun-News By Diana M. Alba UPHAM, N.M. – Bottle of champagne in hand, British billionaire and Virgin Group founder Richard Branson on Monday christened Spaceport America’s diamond feature – a $32.5 million terminal-hangar that one day will house the vehicles belonging to his fledgling spaceline – by rappelling off [...]
Read MoreArticle courtesy of the Las Cruces Sun-News By Diana M. Alba LAS CRUCES – NASA‘s recently announced plan to buy flights from two companies that will launch from Spaceport America gives the $209 million project a shot in the arm, as the facility preps for a ceremonial dedication of its largest building on Monday and [...]
Read MoreArticle courtesy of the Las Cruces Bulletin By Todd G. Dickson Part of the state’s spaceport deal with Virgin Galactic is that the company set up its headquarters in New Mexico, and Las Cruces appears to be that place. Carolyn Wincer, Virgin Galactic’s head of travel and tourism, told the City Council Monday, Oct. 3, [...]
Read MoreArticle courtesy of the Las Cruces Sun-News By Diana M. Alba LAS CRUCES – Squeezing in a stop here while en route to London, Virgin Galactic’s president and CEO told spaceport officials Tuesday that the company remains committed to basing its suborbital flight operations in New Mexico. George Whitesides addressed the new board of directors [...]
Read MoreArticle courtesy of Las Cruces Sun-News By Diana M. Alba LAS CRUCES – Spaceport America’s anchor tenant company, Virgin Galactic, announced recently it’s partnering with two other companies that have their sights set on orbital spaceflight. The other companies, Nevada-based Sierra Nevada Corp. and the Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corp., have submitted competing bids to NASA [...]
Read MoreArticle courtesy of the Las Cruces Bulletin By Todd G. Dickson A flyover by Virgin Galactic’s spaceliner and the presence of aerospace’s more ambitious space entrepreneurs are just a couple of the highlights of this year’s International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight next month. More than 400 aerospace leaders – company executives, government officials [...]
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