Sunday, July 6, 2014
Up: the story behind Richard Branson's goal to make Virgin a galactic success (Wired Magazine Article)
Article about Virgin Galactic in Wired Magazine. Well worth reading!
Saturday, July 5, 2014
FastForward Project - Top 7 Issues Facing Spaceports to Enable Point-to-Point Operations
Top 7 issues facing spaceports to enable point-to-point operations according to the FastForward Project.
Thursday, July 3, 2014
"Spaceport Associates" Site - All about Commercial Space Transportation!
Kudos to Derek Webber for maintaining an excellent site ("Spaceport Associates"), which is loaded with lots of useful resources about commercial space transportation.
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
"Fast Forward Project" - Excellent Resource about Point-to-Point Suborbital Transportation
From the Fast Forward Project website:
"The FastForward Project is a diverse, ad-hoc industry study group focused on common issues related to future global, high-speed point-to-point transportation (including passenger travel and fast package delivery). The all-volunteer group is broadly supported across the aerospace industry, with key members from flight system providers (both entrepreneurial and traditional aerospace hardware companies), future operators, government agencies, commercial aerospaceports, academic organizations, and specialist consultants. Members have backgrounds ranging from traditional aviation to space applications.
The FastForward Study Project is focused on examining pre-competitive issues and questions key to understanding the technical and economic viability of future high-speed global transportation services based on either atmospheric or exo-atmospheric flight. These two emerging markets are related, and both share the goal of drastically reducing point-to-point travel times between distance points on the globe to a matter of hours."
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Integrating Spacecraft into the National Airspace System
Paper by Andrew Duncan, of Embry-Riddle, identifies challenges of integrating spacecraft into the National Airspace System.
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