Posted on October 15, 2009, at 8:52 am .
Artists conception of WhiteKnightTwo and the SpaceShipTwo space tourism vehicle. (Credit: Virgin Galactic)
The War is Boring blog provides an interesting post about how the military is attempting to capitalize on work that Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic are doing in space tourism:
SUSTAIN would be two vehicles. The jet-powered mother-ship, based in the U.S. or at a secure, overseas facility, would loft a smaller, rocket-powered “lander†to high altitude — say, 50,000 feet — before launching it. The rocket would quickly boost the lander to an altitude of around 400,000 feet, just shy of the orbital threshold. On completing its mission, the lander would deploy air brakes and spiral down to a landing.
Continue reading ‘WhiteKnightTwo as the Basis for a Military Reconnaissance Vehicle’
Posted on July 18, 2009, at 5:36 pm .
X-51 Waverider
PANELISTS:
Charles Lauer - Vice President of Business Development, Rocketplane, Inc.
Paul Damphousse - Chief of Advanced Concepts, National Security Space Office
Kelvin Coleman – Special Assistant for Programs and Planning, FAA
A.C. Charania - President, SpaceWorks Commercial
Randall Clague – Government Liaison, XCOR Aerospace
Continue reading ‘NewSpace 09: Suborbital Point-to-Point Panel’
Posted on May 30, 2009, at 10:51 am .
Paul Damphousse, Chief of Advanced Concepts for the National Security Space Office, gave a presentation on Friday at ISDC about SUSTAIN – an advanced vehicle that would allow the Pentagon to deplay a force of 12-13 Marines anywhere in the world within a few hours.
Continue reading ‘SUSTAIN: Getting Forces Anywhere in the World w/in Hours, Not Days’
Posted on March 20, 2009, at 9:27 am .
Aerospace primes show suborbital military transport interest
Rob Coppinger
Flight International
Potential military applications for suborbital spaceflight are being studied by some of the biggest players in the US defence industry. Northrop Grumman, Pratt & Whitney and Alliant Techsystems (ATK) have all made suborbital transport proposals in closed sessions to the US government’s National Space Security Office (NSSO), Flight International can reveal.
Continue reading ‘Aerospace Giants Involved in Point-to-Point Work’
Posted on February 23, 2009, at 11:39 am .
Flight Global has more information on this week’s National Security Space Office (NSSO) conference on suborbital vehicles. Invited guests to the Texas confab include a who’s who of private companies trying to develop space tourism, including Armadillo Aerospace, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic and XCOR.
Continue reading ‘Military Courts Space Tourism Companies for Troop Deployment Project’
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