Virgin Galactic unveils LauncherOne satellite vehicle. Virgin Galactic Reveals Privately Funded Satellite Launcher and Confirms SpaceShipTwo Poised for Powered Flight New vehicle "LauncherOne" to transform small satellite market, as space tourism business powers into final leg of test flights 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 already raised from Virgin Galactic's partner aabar Investments PJS, and with commercial flights of this new orbital launch vehicle expected to begin by 2016, Virgin Galactic aims to offer frequent and dedicated launches at the world's lowest prices. "Virgin Galactic's goal is to revolutionize the way we get to space," Branson said. "I'm immensely proud of what we have already achieved as we draw near to regular suborbital flights on SpaceShipTwo. Abu Dhabi partners with Virgin Galactic spaceship firm. The Mideast investment fund that recently bet big on Mercedes-Benz said Tuesday that it will pay about $280 million to buy nearly a third of commercial space travel start-up Virgin Galactic. Aabar Investments' buy-in gives British billionaire Sir Richard Branson's space tourism venture a big financial kickstart at a time when many funding sources have dried up because of the global recession.
It also gives the wealthy Persian Gulf sheikdom of Abu Dhabi a chance to build its own space flight industry as it broadens its economy beyond the oil sector. Aabar will buy a 32% stake in Virgin Galactic's holding company. In exchange, the state-controlled fund will acquire "exclusive regional rights" to launch Virgin Galactic tourism and scientific research space flights from the United Arab Emirates capital. Aabar says it plans to pay an extra $100 million plus transaction costs to fund a program to launch small satellites into orbit, and will build a spaceport in Abu Dhabi. Space - SOFIA: Astronomical observations from the stratosphere.
Die fliegende Sternwarte SOFIA (Stratosphären-Observatorium für Infrarot-Astronomie) ist ein Gemeinschaftsprojekt des DLR und der US-Weltraumbehörde NASA. Das deutsche 2,7 Meter-Spiegel-Teleskop ist Herzstück des Observatoriums und eine Meisterleistung deutscher Ingenieure: Als Plattform dient ein ehemaliges Verkehrsflugzeug vom Typ Boeing 747 SP, in dessen Rumpf eine Luke eingebaut wurde, die sich im Flug öffnen und schließen lässt - weltweit einmalig.
Speziell für SOFIA entwickelte Instrumente ermöglichen astronomische Beobachtungen im Infraroten und Submillimeter-Bereich. Dieser Teil des elektromagnetischen Spektrums ist vom Erdboden aus weitgehend unzugänglich. 2011 fanden die ersten wissenschaftlichen Flüge statt, bei denen zwei Wasserstoffverbindungen (OD und SH) im Weltall gefunden wurden. Mit SOFIA wollen Astronomen in den nächsten 20 Jahren die Entstehung von Planetensystemen und weit entfernten Galaxien untersuchen. List of private spaceflight companies. This page is a list of non-governmental entities that currently offer – or are planning to offer – equipment and services geared towards spaceflight, both robotic and human spaceflight. Manufacturers of space vehicles[edit] Crew and cargo transport vehicles[edit] Space stations[edit] Launch vehicles[edit] Landers, rovers and probes[edit] Research craft and tech demonstrators[edit] Space mining[edit] Space manufacturing[edit] Space Colonisation[edit] Propulsion manufacturers[edit] Satellite launchers[edit] Spaceliner companies[edit] Spacecraft component developers and manufacturers[edit] See also[edit] References[edit]
Space Exploration Technologies Corporation - Video Gallery. Bigelow Aerospace. Blue Origin - About Blue. Blue Origin, LLC is developing technologies to enable human access to space at dramatically lower cost and increased reliability. This is a long-term effort, which we’re pursuing incrementally, step by step. We’re currently focused on developing reusable launch vehicles utilizing rocket-powered Vertical Take-off and Vertical Landing (VTVL) technology. Suborbital Our New Shepard system will take astronauts to space on suborbital journeys. The New Shepard vehicle includes a Crew Capsule carrying three or more astronauts atop a separate rocket-powered Propulsion Module, launched from our West Texas Launch Site.
Following liftoff, the combined vehicles accelerate for approximately two and a half minutes. The Crew Capsule will go on to coast to the edge of space, providing astronauts with a view to the curvature of the Earth and the beauty of our planet. In addition, the New Shepard vehicle will provide opportunities for researchers to fly experiments into space and a microgravity environment.