Posted by Scott Laird
Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:35:45 GMT
Spacetoday.net is reporting that the X Prize Foundation is holding a press conference on Tuesday, July 27th, and will probably announce at least one team’s scheduled launch attempts. Currently, Scaled Composites and da Vinci are rumored to be ready to launch.
Since the prize expires at the end of 2004, and the rules require 60 days notice before launch, there are only a couple months left for teams to announce launch attempts.
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Posted by Scott Laird
Mon, 21 Jun 2004 23:51:42 GMT
A few months back, MSN’s search engine decided that this blog was a great source of information on Paris Hilton videos, and decided to feed me tons of traffic.
Today was Google’s turn. One of my SpaceShip One entries is showing up on the first page of search results for “spaceship one” on at least a couple of Google’s servers. Surprisingly, this is only generating a couple dozen hits per hour this afternoon.
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Posted by Scott Laird
Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:03:26 GMT
CNN says they’re coming back down, and suggests that the rocket didn’t fire exactly right, and they may not have made the altitude. No real details yet. Dick Rutan thinks they made it, but he’s just guessing.
Update: CNN’s reporting that they made it to 100km.
Update: Newsweek says that they made it to 328,491 feet, which is 408 feet higher then they needed to go. They also have some hints about Rutan’s new “346” project. Hurry up, guys–we’re all waiting for SpaceShip Two. My big question is if they’ll go straight for orbit, or if they’ll take smaller steps. Today’s flight only took them half as high as Freedom 7.
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Posted by Scott Laird
Thu, 17 Jun 2004 19:15:10 GMT
SpaceShip One is scheduled for their first real launch at 6:30 AM on Monday, and the spectators are starting to line up already. There’s a surprising amount of interest in the launch; apparently people are expecting Mojave to be overrun by spectators.
BoingBoing is blogging the whole thing.
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