by Michael Belfiore | Jan 24, 2013 | Blog
When I heard that David Gump had left top Google Lunar X PRIZE contender Astrobotic, I was pretty sure he would pop up somewhere equally interesting. I wasn’t disappointed to learn that he had become the CEO of Deep Space Industries, or DSI. DSI is the second...
by Michael Belfiore | Jan 14, 2013 | Blog
Sure, it’s a marketing gimmick, but it’s also an exciting new endorsement for XCOR Aerospace and its Lynx suborbital spaceplane. Multinational personal care products company Unilever has bought 22 tickets (retail value about $2.1 million) for a contest...
by Michael Belfiore | Jan 9, 2013 | Blog
The Lynx, a two seat rocket-powered airplane under development by XCOR Aerospace, is on track to start flight testing this summer, company executives tell me. If all goes as planned, that will make two rocket planes blasting out of the Mojave Air and Space Port this...
by Michael Belfiore | Dec 31, 2012 | Blog
Pioneers are those brave enough to go where no one, or few, have gone before. Usually that involves taking a risk; if it were completely safe, the way would already be well-traveled. Reda Anderson was such a one. I had the pleasure of meeting her back in 2006, when...
by Michael Belfiore | Dec 24, 2012 | Blog
Grasshopper is SpaceX’s reusable rocket. In a test flight last week at the company’s McGregor, TX proving grounds, the 10-story machine reached the height of a 12-story building before settling back to the launch pad on a jet of flame. As science fiction...
