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Sub-orbital Markets

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Abstract

The dream of sub-orbital flights started to become a reality in 2004 when Burt Rutan won the Ansari X prize with SpaceShipOne that was dropped by the White Knight motherplane (built by Scaled Composites). Just before winning the prize, Richard Branson announced the creation of a partnership between Virgin, Scaled Composites and Mojave Aerospace Ventures called Virgin Galactic that aimed at creating a sub-orbital space tourism business. He initiated the emergence of a completely new spaceflight industry, marked by the creation of new sub-orbital reusable vehicles for crew and cargo transportation.

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Notes

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    Swedish spaceport, the Dutch Caribbean spaceport.

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    Certain authors recommend the use of Game theory and value net approach for analysing the evolution of the different roles of the players in the human spaceflight training industry (Henwood 2014).

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    The first flight on November 23, 2015, reached 100.5 km; January 22, 2016, reached 101.7 km; and April 02 reached 103.8 km.

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    The bookings include information only of the following companies: Armadillo, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic and XCOR.

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    Stella Tkatchova

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Tkatchova, S. (2018). Sub-orbital Markets. In: Emerging Space Markets. Space Technology Library, vol 35. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55669-6_7

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