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Earlier this month, Jules Klar, founder of Phoenix, AZ-based RocketShip Tours, announced that his company will immediately begin selling rides to the edge of space for $95,000 per flight. Participants will fly aboard the Lynx, a two-seat suborbital vehicle being built by California-based XCOR Aerospace.
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Read MoreDraganfly Innovations has launched their Draganflyer X6 helicopter, a miniature aircraft for commercial/industrial aerial video and photography. The Draganflyer X6 helicopter is easy to fly, capable of operating autonomously, and has an appearance that is unlike a conventional helicopter, using six main horizontal rotor blades that allows the craft to hover efficiently and maneuver rapidly using differential thrust.
Read MoreSanswire Corp. develops lighter than air unmanned aerial vehicles has confirmed the Company's previously announced corporate name change from GlobeTel Communications Corp. (PINKSHEETS: GTEM) to Sanswire Corp. is now effective.
Read MoreClyde Space has opened a website and online shop with all sorts of new features such as newsletters, blogs, case studies of previous missions, and more. However, what sets this website apart from other space company websites is that the site allows the visitor to buy spacecraft online with a credit card. There is currently a mini revolution taking place in the space industry; the revolution is called CubeSats and it has set in motion an unstoppable demand for standardized, low-cost spacecraft and spacecraft subsystems on demand.
Read MoreOn August 2nd, Falcon 1 executed a picture perfect first stage flight, ultimately reaching an altitude of 217 km, but encountered a problem just after stage separation that prevented the second stage from reaching orbit. At this point, we are certain as to the origin of the problem. Four methods of analysis — vehicle inertial measurement, chamber pressure, onboard video and a simple physics free body calculation — all give the same answer.
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Read MoreThe Norwegian software company Mobiletech has won the Telenor Digital Winner Prize.
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