Virgin Galactic gets one flight closer to spaceflight success
Looking more like a bizarre Siamese twin (or beer-goggle double) than a real plane, the WhiteKnightTwo launch “mothership” took its maiden flight yesterday, and moved the world a little closer to a future in which the wealthy can soar far, far away from our little… Continue Reading
Is there an economic downturn in space?
[Editor's Note: Yesterday, we heard from William Pomerantz, who runs Google's Lunar X Prize, on how private enterprise may give NASA and America's space program a much-needed infusion. One question he didn't touch on is how the current economic downturn may affect these space privateers... Continue Reading
Roundup of action: Opus Select, Boobik, Branson’s space warming & more
1. Yandex, Russian search engine, grows quickly
2. Opus launches hedge fund in New York
3. Matrix goes to China
4. Dogster takes $400,000 in financing
5. Semantic search engine Powerset raises $2M
6. Pubmatic, draw ads from all networks
7. Boobik, the Twitter clone, but for sex
8. Branson taking global… Continue Reading