{"id":19652,"date":"2015-04-13T18:54:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T10:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/paul-allen-launches-vulcan-aerospace-to-make-commercial-space-travel-cheaper-accessible\/"},"modified":"2015-04-13T18:54:47","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T10:54:47","slug":"paul-allen-launches-vulcan-aerospace-to-make-commercial-space-travel-cheaper-accessible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/paul-allen-launches-vulcan-aerospace-to-make-commercial-space-travel-cheaper-accessible\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Allen launches Vulcan Aerospace to make commercial space travel cheaper, accessible"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Stratolaunch carrier vehicle under construction in the hangar at the Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, Calif. Photo via Vulcan Aerospace.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Paul Allen wants to make commercial space travel more convenient and less expensive, and today he launched Vulcan Aerospace to help achieve those goals.<\/p>\n

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Paul Allen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Vulcan Aerospace is a new company from Allen\u2019s investment arm headed up by Chuck Beames, the executive director of Stratolaunch Systems, a commercial space venture backed by Allen that launched in 2011.<\/p>\n

Beames announced the initiative today, and in a blog post he said Vulcan Aerospace is \u201can innovative approach to the commercial space industry,\u201d one that is \u201cfocused on improving the convenience and reducing the cost of space access for the entrepreneur.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beames noted that the focus is on a collaborative ecosystem called \u201cNextSpace,\u201d which began with the creation of Stratolaunch Systems.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccess to space is also expensive and inconvenient, with significant constraints in launch range and operation infrastructure,\u201d he wrote. \u201cVulcan Aerospace wants to support a collaborative ecosystem.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vulcan Aerospace builds on what Allen has already pushed forward with Stratolaunch, a company which is developing the world\u2019s largest plane \u2014 with six 747 engines and a wingspan greater than the length of a football field \u2014 that will launch rockets into space from 30,000 feet in the air by 2016. Instead of the traditional orbital launch model, Stratolaunch uses a carrier aircraft that acts a mobile launch range.<\/p>\n

\u201cStratolaunch\u2019s ability to launch from variable locations will enable satellites and humans to be efficiently inserted into their most optimal orbit at a time of the customer\u2019s choosing,\u201d Beames noted. \u201cLaunching far away from populated areas also significantly improves safety. Flexibility will be even greater when the Stratolaunch system is adapted to launch various types of launch vehicles.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beames, Allen, and the Vulcan Aerospace team clearly have big ambitions to make space travel more accessible.<\/p>\n

\u201cMuch like the migration of the integrated circuit chip from its use in warehouse-sized mainframe computers to hand-held mobile devices has altered the course of modern life, Vulcan Aerospace believes versatile, low-cost access to space will do the same for the expansion of the physical boundaries of humankind,\u201d Beames wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Stratolaunch carrier vehicle under construction in the hangar at the Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, Calif. Photo via Vulcan Aerospace. Paul Allen wants to make commercial space travel more convenient and less expensive, and today he launched Vulcan Aerospace to help achieve those goals. Paul Allen. Vulcan Aerospace is a new company from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2672,2489,4949],"class_list":["post-19652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-paul-allen","tag-stratolaunch","tag-vulcan-aerospace"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}