{"id":21944,"date":"2014-08-22T23:01:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T15:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/?p=21944"},"modified":"2023-04-06T19:21:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T11:21:41","slug":"non-governmental-spaceflight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/non-governmental-spaceflight\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Private Spaceflight Companies Reaching for the Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Space is big. Really big. And until recently, <strong>space exploration was a domain that only involved world governments,<\/strong> as they are the ones that had the capabilities and resources to undertake such a task. Even then,<strong> only a select few can go launch to space<\/strong>, again, due to the time and money it takes to train them.<\/p>\n<p>Today, however, we are seeing several <strong>non-governmental agencies and companies that aim to bring space travel down to the civilian level<\/strong>, using the advantages that private industry has to offer, such as less bureaucracy and a profit motive. In this post, we will show you <strong>8 non-governmental spaceflight companies that aim to do just that and get you into space<\/strong> and among the stars.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ref-block ref-block--post\" id=\"ref-post-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/60-absolutely-stunning-space-and-planets-wallpapers\/\" class=\"ref-block__link\" title=\"Read More: Space & Planets Desktop Wallpapers\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Space & Planets Desktop Wallpapers<\/span><\/a>\n<div class=\"ref-block__thumbnail img-thumb img-thumb--jumbo\" data-img='{ \"src\" : \"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/thumbs\/250x160\/60-absolutely-stunning-space-and-planets-wallpapers.jpg\" }'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<noscript>\n<style>.no-js #ref-block-post-1741 .ref-block__thumbnail { background-image: url(\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/thumbs\/250x160\/60-absolutely-stunning-space-and-planets-wallpapers.jpg\"); }<\/style>\n<\/noscript>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"ref-block__summary\">\n<h4 class=\"ref-title\">Space & Planets Desktop Wallpapers<\/h4>\n<p class=\"ref-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSpace is vast, both in terms of area and as a great source of inspiration. There are space...\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Read more<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>1. Scaled Composites<\/h2>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/non-governmental-spaceflight\/spaceshipone.jpg\" alt=\"SpaceFlightOne\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\"><\/figure>\n<p>Founded by <strong>Burt Rutan<\/strong>, an aerospace engineer with a reputation for designing strong, lightweight aircraft with unusual designs, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scaled.com\/\">Scaled Composites<\/a> aim is <strong>to create experimental and concept aircrafts and provide fabrication<\/strong> for other vehicles. Its claim to fame is <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/403-spaceshipone-wins-10-million-ansari-prize-historic-2nd-trip-space.html\">winning the Ansari X Prize<\/a>, which offers $10,000,00 for the the first non-governmental organization to launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space, with their spaceplane, <strong>SpaceShipOne<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The spacecraft was <strong>funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen<\/strong> and he would later partner with Rutan to start a new spaceflight company. Scaled Composites was <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/4104-northrop-grumman-buys-builder-spaceshipone.html\">acquired<\/a> in 2007 by Northrop Grumman, an aerospace and defence company, with Rutan leaving in 2011. It is now working with several others to develop new spacecrafts to progress civilian spaceflight.<\/p>\n<h2>2. Virgin Galactic<\/h2>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/non-governmental-spaceflight\/spaceshiptwo.jpg\" alt=\"SpaceShipTwo\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\"><\/figure>\n<p>What pie doesn\u2019t the Virgin Group have their fingers in? Starting of with music and then wildly going to nearly <em>every<\/em> type of venture imaginable, it\u2019s no surprise that <strong>Sir Richard Branson<\/strong> would finally set his sights towards the stars. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virgingalactic.com\/\">Virgin Galactic<\/a> is a spaceflight company with aims to <strong>provide spaceflights for tourist, science missions and launching small satellites<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>They are <strong>currently in their testing phase<\/strong>, with their current space plane called <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/2014\/04\/23\/virgin-galactic-spaceshiptwo-flight\/\">SpaceShipTwo<\/a>, built in conjunction with Scaled Composites. The space planes are launched from a very large plane, as this will give it a higher initial speed and altitude when compared to launching from the ground. George Whiteside, Virgin Galactic CEO, <strong>hopes to have commercial services up and running by 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>3. SpaceX<\/h2>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/non-governmental-spaceflight\/falcon-1.jpg\" alt=\"Falcon 1\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"><\/figure>\n<p>Founded by Tesla Motors CEO and serial entrepreneur <strong>Elon Musk<\/strong>, the goal of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/\">SpaceX<\/a> is to reduce space transportation cost, which will help with their their main objective to help humanity colonize Mars. The idea came about with Musk\u2019s idea to <strong>build a cheap, reusable spacecraft, similar to the aeroplane<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX has already accomplished a lot, such as being <strong>the first privately funded company to launch and recover a spacecraft<\/strong> and the first company to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/26\/science\/space\/space-x-capsule-docks-at-space-station.html\">send a spacecraft <\/a>to the International Space Station. The company today has <strong>contracts with several governmental and private entities<\/strong>, NASA being one of them. Ultimately, the end goal of Musk, and by extension, SpaceX, is to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zn7obiurdxg\">colonize Mars<\/a>, with him quoted as saying that he \"would like to die on Mars, just not on impact\".<\/p>\n<h2>4. Blue Origin<\/h2>\n<figure> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/non-governmental-spaceflight\/blue-origin-charon.jpg\" alt=\"blue origin charon\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\"><\/figure>\n<p><small><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.museumofflight.org\/aircraft\/charon-test-vehicle\">(Image Source)<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blueorigin.com\/\">Blue Origin<\/a> is the brainchild of <strong>Jeff Bezos<\/strong>, the founder of Amazon.com. Similar to SpaceX, its aim is to <strong>develop technologies that will enable people to get into space cheaply and reliably<\/strong>. The idea for Blue Origin stems from Bezos dream to colonize space and preserve Earth, a dream he\u2019s had ever since he was a teen.<\/p>\n<p>The company relies on the idea of incremental improvement and builds on prior advances. It\u2019s even the company motto, <strong>Gradatim Ferociter<\/strong>, Latin for \"Step-by-step, Ferociously\". The company is known to be tight lipped, but they have performed test flights with two vehicles, <strong>Charon<\/strong> and <strong>Goddard<\/strong>. They are currently working on the <strong>New Shephard, a reusable vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing manned rocket.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>5. Stratolaunch Systems<\/h2>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/non-governmental-spaceflight\/stratolaunch-carrier-aircraft.jpg\" alt=\"Stratolaunch Carrier Aircraft\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\"><\/figure>\n<p>Founded by Microsoft cofounder <strong>Paul Allen<\/strong> and Scaled Composites founder <strong>Burt Rutan<\/strong>, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stratolaunch.com\/\">Stratolaunch Systems<\/a> is a aerospace company that <strong>specializes in air launch to orbit,<\/strong> which basically means launching stuff to space from an aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>They have not yet made a test flight as they are currently developing their air launch system, the <strong>Stratolaunch carrier aircraft<\/strong>. Once completed, it is projected to have a wingspan of 385ft (117m), which would make it the largest airplane to fly, by wingspan. As a comparison, the current holder of the title is the Hughes H-4 Hercules, a.k.a. the Spruce Goose, with a wingspan of 320ft (97.5m).<\/p>\n<h2>6. Space Adventures<\/h2>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/non-governmental-spaceflight\/mark-shuttleworth-space-adventure.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Shuttleworth Space Adventure\" width=\"500\" height=\"406\"><\/figure>\n<p>Cofounded by <strong>Eric Anderson<\/strong> and several other entrepreneurs, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/spaceadventures.com\/\">Space Adventures<\/a> <strong>provides space-based tourism to civilians<\/strong>, offering activities such as orbital spaceflights, atmospheric space flights, cosmonaut training and other related activities.<\/p>\n<p>So far, only 7 clients have participated in the orbital spaceflight, famous among them including, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth, Richard \u2018Lord British\u2019 Garriott and Cirque de Soleil cofounder Guy Lalibert\u00e9. The company hopes to <strong>soon offer a lunar spaceflight<\/strong>, which will involve circumnavigating the moon.<\/p>\n<h2>7. Planetary Resources<\/h2>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/non-governmental-spaceflight\/planetary-resources-satelite.jpg\" alt=\"Planetary Resources Satelite\" width=\"500\" height=\"314\"><\/figure>\n<p>Cofounded by <strong>Eric Anderson<\/strong> and fellow Space Adventure cofounder <strong>Peter Diamandis<\/strong>, the long term goal of <strong>Planetary Resources<\/strong> is to \"<strong>expand Earth\u2019s natural resource base<\/strong>\" by developing technologies that will enable <strong>asteroid mining<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The company already has a list of big and well know investors including Google\u2019s Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, filmmaker James Cameron and Perot Systems chairman Ross Perot Jr. Currently, the company is <strong>developing low cost space telescopes<\/strong> which will be a first step as it can be used to survey near-Earth asteroids.<\/p>\n<h2>8. Bigelow Aerospace<\/h2>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/non-governmental-spaceflight\/bigelow-space-station-alpha.jpg\" alt=\"Bigelow Space Station Alpha\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><\/figure>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bigelowaerospace.com\/\">Bigelow Aerospace<\/a> was founded by <strong>Robert Bigelow<\/strong>, a real estate entrepreneur and owner of Budget Suites of America hotel chain. He actually c<strong>reated his real estate empire specifically to fund his aerospace ambitions<\/strong>, as at the age of 12, he viewed the mushroom clouds from the atomic tests near his home town. He then vowed to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2013-05-02\/robert-bigelow-plans-a-real-estate-empire-in-space\">create a future<\/a> for man in space and will choose a career that will help him fund such an endeavour.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the company is <strong>developing inflatable space habitats<\/strong>, already launching and testing two modules, Genesis I and II, as well as a private orbital space complex, the <strong>Bigelow Commercial Space Station.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space is big. Really big. And until recently, space exploration was a domain that only involved world governments, as they are the ones that had the capabilities and resources to undertake such a task. 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