UK-based Starchaser Industries has submitted a study to the European Space Agency in which it lays out plans for suborbital and orbital space tourism flights.
The company is working on its Starchaser 5 rocket, which would launch a reuseable Thunderstar capsules on suborbital flights exceeding 100 kilometers. The flights would would carry one pilot and four passengers. Occupants would experience about three minutes of weightlessness.
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Starchaser Press Release
Manchester based high technology company Starchaser Industries has been awarded an £130,730 [$210,317] Grant for Research and Development (GRAND) from the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) to develop a unique eco-friendly rocket engine for eventual use as a safety system aboard commercial space rockets.
Specialising in the development, operation and commercialisation of space related products, Starchaser Industries have identified a unique way to develop an environmentally friendly hybrid rocket engine that will utilize “green” propellants, producing virtually no harmful emissions.
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Starchaser Industries of Britain has unveiled a new rocket that it plans to use to fly tourists into suborbital space in 2013. The Nova 2 rocket, fueled partly by used tires, will launch as three-person capsule from Spaceport America in New Mexico, company founder Steve Bennett says. The company plans to test booster next year. Tickets will cost about $200,000.
Steve Bennett to run space flights by 2013
The Telegraph
Passenger rocket fuled by old tyres
The Mirror
“I’ll take tourists into space”
Manchester Evening News
