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Friday, April 8, 2011

What are the NewSpace capabilities in R&D currently?

This deals with the first research question:

Does anyone has a list of what NewSpace capabilities are in R&D now that may succeed by 2030?  Let's not judge their potential for success now, let's just list them.

EXAMPLES:  Bigelow's orbiting inflatable habitats is one.  Virgin Galactic's suborbital flights are another.  SpaceX with their lifters and Dragon Capsule are others.

Lists including websites would be great!

Coyote

5 comments:

  1. Blue Origin: http://www.blueorigin.com/index.html

    Armadillo Aerospace: http://www.armadilloaerospace.com

    Masten Space Systems: http://masten-space.com/

    Blue Origin is at least suborbital, if not orbital.

    Armadillo & Masten both have competed in Lunar Lander tech.

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  2. Dax,

    Thanks. Anyone else?

    Coyote

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  3. LEAP SPACEPLANE: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=110821682303324

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  4. XCOR Aerospace: http://www.xcor.com/

    Saw what I can only assume were company employees at a Yuri's Night event.

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  5. I am thinking that we should use all of this info collected to create reasons/uses for NewSpace spacecraft and launchers to provide for greater capabliities sooner for MilSpace operations (manned and unmanned). Ie: Perhaps we could think about an Air Force version of Dragon kind of like how they tried for Blue Gemini in the 1960s...perhaps call it Blue Dragon? :)

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