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Private spaceflight refers to spaceflight developments that are not conducted by a government agency, such as NASA or ESA.. During the early decades of the Space Age, the government space agencies of the Soviet Union and United States pioneered space technology in collaboration with affiliated design bureaus in the USSR and private companies in the US.
Private spaceflight companies include non-governmental or privately-owned entities focused on developing and/or offering equipment and services geared towards spaceflight, both robotic and human. This list includes both inactive and active entities.
May–July 2014 – A private initiative known as the ISEE-3 Reboot Project successfully contacts and takes control of NASA's defunct ISEE-3 space probe with support from NASA and the Arecibo Observatory, making them the first private group to command a spacecraft in deep space, though their plans to change the probe's orbit are abandoned weeks ...
Perhaps the biggest effect of the trip, however, is to help promote private space travel. A range of companies including Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin have been promoting trips to space as a kind of ...
Mid-2021, however, signaled a great leap forward. In the span of just three months, the three highest-profile billionaire players in the private space travel world had made come-fly-with-me history.
Why the world’s first civilian spacewalk may finally make private space travel useful. SpaceX on track for record-breaking year. Wednesday 11 September 2024 20:55, Anthony Cuthbertson.
Previous private space flights have so far proved divisive: praised by some for heralding a new era of space access, while being ridiculed by others as the latest folly of self-indulgent billionaires.
World View Enterprises, Inc., doing business as World View, is a private American near space exploration and technology company headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, founded with the goal of increasing access to and the utilization of the stratosphere for scientific, commercial, economic, and military [1] purposes.