Sentences with phrase «in suborbital space»

His love of rockets spurred a $ 30 million gamble on SpaceShipOne, which won the X Prize as the first manned craft in suborbital space.

Not exact matches

The Federal Aviation Administration and Space Florida, the state agency tasked with promoting interstellar tourism, predict suborbital flights alone could generate up to $ 1.6 billion in revenue during their first 10 years of operation.

«In the next few years, suborbital spacecraft will transport scientific payloads and passengers into space.

Chakrabarti's suborbital rocket flights were made possible through NASA funding, as was the bulk of recent progress in high - performance coronagraphs for space telescopes.

But the measurements can be done in space — avoiding that glow — in just the short amount of time that a suborbital rocket flies above the atmosphere, before descending again back toward the planet.

XCOR reps said at a press conference Wednesday that its Lynx suborbital spaceship, still in the prototype phase, will be a two - seat (one pilot, one passenger) craft that takes off like an airplane and glides back to Earth like a space shuttle.

Blue Origin, an aerospace company based in Kent, Washington, and led by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, is working on a rocket - propelled vehicle called New Shepard to carry people and microgravity experiments on suborbital trips into space.

In 2004, the aircraft and rocket maker Scaled Composites of Mojave, California, won the Ansari X prize for SpaceShipOne, the first commercial spacecraft to reach suborbital space.

Maverick aircraft designer Burt Rutan captured the Ansari X Prize in 2004 by lofting his manned, reusable rocket plane SpaceShipOne into space, but that was a suborbital flight requiring about 2 percent of the energy needed to reach and maintain orbit.

Alan Stern is Associate Vice President of the Southwest Research Institute's Space Science and Engineering Division in Boulder, Colorado, and chair of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation's Suborbital Applications Researchers Group (SARG).

Those pathfinders astronauts will fly on flights donated to Teachers in Space by suborbital companies.

Previous efforts in space tourism have focused on the development of brief, suborbital flights in which passengers would experience a brief period of weightlessness and a view of the curvature of the Earth before returning to the surface.

So far they've done a good job in keeping costs down and they're bolstering the New Space industry (Mojave, Bigelow and all the suborbital ventures).

According to Discovery News, «Launched on ballistic flight paths that quickly re-enter the atmosphere, the water wouldn't add to the debris problem, unlike some other proposals to clean up space... The so - called Ballistic Orbital Removal System could be operated inexpensively by launching water on decommissioned missiles out of suborbital launch complexes, such as NASA's Wallops Island in Virginia, he added.»

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