- Alt.space
The term alt.space refers to a community of relatively new aerospace companies working to develop low cost access to space or spaceflight technologies, and low cost spaceflight technical and policy advocates. Some people are instead using the term New Space.
The
Ansari X-Prize won byBurt Rutan 'sSpaceship One vehicle is considered by manyWho|date=July 2007 to be an alt.space category event.ome alt.space companies
The following are companies and organizations generally regarded as both alt.space and successfully active (or previously successfully active).
Active
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Armadillo Aerospace
*Bigelow Aerospace
*Blue Origin
*Masten Space Systems
*Rocketplane Kistler
*Scaled Composites
*SpaceDev
*SpaceX
*T/Space
*Virgin Galactic
*XCOR Aerospace Organizations
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Space Access Society
*Space Frontier Foundation Events
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Ansari X-Prize
*X Prize Cup competition Defunct
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Rotary Rocket Regulation
Much of the alt.space activity is now involved in government licensing activities and regulation development for proposed spaceflights, managed by the
Federal Aviation Administration External links
* [http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ast/ Office of the Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation] .
* [http://www.sei.aero/nextmarketspace/index.php Future Space Markets] .
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