Space Perspective
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| Founded 📆 | February 2019 |
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| Headquarters 🏙️ | Titusville, Florida, U.S. |
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Space Perspective is a private American space tourism company using high-altitude balloon technology founded in 2019 by Taber MacCallum and Jane Poynter and headquartered at Florida’s Space Coast Spaceport in Titusville.[1] The campus includes the capsule and balloon manufacturing facility, laboratories, and operations infrastructure from launch to mission control. Space Perspective’s launch operations are onsite at NASA Kennedy Space Center's Launch and Landing Facility.[2]
Commercial Space Flight[edit]
Space Perspective is licensed and regulated by the FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation as a commercial spaceflight.
Spaceship Neptune[edit]
Spaceship Neptune is comprised of the patented high-altitude balloon (SpaceBalloon™), Reserve Descent System, and Neptune Capsule.[3][4][5] Spaceship Neptune stands over 700 feet (213 meters) tall when ready to launch and includes a Space Lounge interior.[6]
High-Altitude Balloon[edit]
The patented high-altitude balloon, comparable to those utilized by NASA and other government agencies, is made from polyethylene with high tensile strength material throughout, which is recycled after each flight.[7] Every other component of Spaceship Neptune is designed to be reflown. [8] When fully expanded the high-altitude balloon is 18,000,000 cubic feet in volume and is inflated with 1,000 cubic feet of compressed hydrogen.
Reserve Descent System[edit]
The Reserve Descent System remains secured to the high-altitude balloon the entire flight from liftoff to splashdown.
Neptune Capsule[edit]
The Neptune Capsule is a spherical, climate-controlled, pressurized capsule,16 feet (4.9 meters) in diameter. It includes: sixteen patented 360-degree panoramic windows that are 1.8 feet (0.56 meters) wide by 5.05 feet (1.54 meters) high; a patent-pending splash cone to attenuate splashdown and improves hydrodynamics; satellite imagery and 360-degree on-board cameras.[9][10] Inside the capsule is a customizable Space Lounge including a restroom.[11]
Formation and History[edit]
Space Perspective was founded by husband-and-wife team Jane Poynter, Founder, Co-CEO & Chief Experience Officer, and Taber MacCallum, Founder, Co-CEO and Chief Technology Officer.[8] MacCallum is the former Chairman and a current board member of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation.[12] Poynter holds a patent for the world’s first self-sustaining habitat used in multiple space programs. Former Astronaut Hall of Fame inductee Jeff Hoffman serves as Senior Technical Advisor, where his five Space Shuttle flights inform Space Perspective’s heritage in space travel.
Biosphere 2[edit]
Poynter and MacCallum met as founding members of the first closed mission of Biosphere 2,[13] an American Earth system science research facility in Oracle, Arizona. They spent two years and 20 minutes in an artificial, enclosed ecosystem designed to replicate the earth’s biosphere to test the viability of maintaining human life in outer space. Jane Poynter was part of the design team and integral to imagining and realizing the Biosphere 2 project. She led the design and operation of the project's record-breaking intensive plant growth systems that supplied the eight-person crew with food, water, and oxygen for the two-year mission. Taber MacCallum was also part of the design team and created the analytical laboratory that monitored the air, water, and soil of Biosphere 2. Designed to help realize future human interplanetary colonization, Biosphere 2 would reveal that understanding how to live on another planet rapidly translates into how to live on our own planet.
Paragon Space Development Company[edit]
Jane Poynter and Taber MacCallum served as co-founders, Chairwoman, President, CEO and CTO, respectively, of Paragon Space Development Corporation, a human life support systems company that perfected technologies seen on most American human spacecraft today, including the International Space Station.
StratEx World Record-Breaking Flight[edit]
While at Paragon, Poynter and MacCallum were part of the team that directed the world record-breaking free fall of Google executive Alan Eustace via the StratEx project.[14] This project gave rise to the invention of a self-contained spacesuit[15] and recovery program that allows human exploration of space at 100,000 feet (30 km). Three world records were broken during the free fall which include: the highest human flight under a SpaceBalloon (135,890 feet / 41.4 km); free fall distance with drogue or stabilization device; and vertical speed with drogue. The maximum descent velocity of 822 mph (1323 km/h) – faster than the speed of sound – allowed Alan to become the second person in history to intentionally break the sound barrier outside an aircraft. The spacesuit the StratEx team developed, and in which Alan flew, is on permanent exhibit at the Smithsonian while the backup spacesuit is permanently on display at Space Perspective Mission Control in Titusville Florida.
Human Spaceflight Experience[edit]
Following StratEx Jane Poynter and Taber MacCallum shifted their focus on suborbital flights and the human spaceflight experience and founded Space Perspective.[16] The decision to use Hydrogen was based on the data demonstrating it to be a safe gas for use in balloons, and its use in human-crewed balloons since the 1700s without a single recorded incident attributed to hydrogen.
Funding[edit]
In November 2021, Space Perspective announced a significant Series A financing round.[17] The new injection of capital marked the first time a human high-altitude balloon company raised this level of investment. New funding was announced in April 2022 and advanced Space Perspective to the phase of fulfilling commercial high-altitude balloon flights from late 2024.
Design[edit]
Space Perspective started working with Dan Window, Experience Design Lead and Isabella Trani, Experience Designer of OMI on current iterations of their capsule design and interior.
Sustainability[edit]
Space Perspective has partnered with Cool Effect to offset the carbon footprint of its logistics operations, including Spaceship Neptune flights.
First Test Flight[edit]
Space Perspective held their first test flight in June 2021 with a primary focus on safety and sustainability.[18] An un-crewed full-scale capsule simulator was flown through the full flight profile to 108,000 feet (32.9 km), splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico as planned.[19] The flight carried an ozone sensor instrument developed by Dr. Nirmal Patel and his student team in the physics department at the University of Northern Florida.
Milestones[edit]
2019[edit]
- August: Space Perspective is incorporated.
2021[edit]
- June 18: First test flight is successfully completed.[19]
- June: Launched the largest art installation to space
- June: Sent scientific experiments and artistic creations as a payload through a collaboration with Higher Orbits[20] and Beyond Earth.[21]
- June: First public launch of ticket sales.[22]
- October: Announces the largest venture funding round in history for a human high-altitude balloon company at that time.
2022[edit]
- February 16: Becomes the first company in commercial space flight industry to provide the ability to book and pay online via crypto.
- April: Announces Cool Effect partnership.
- April: David Grutman joins Space Perspective as Experience Curator.[23]
- April 12: Announces interior capsule design elements.[6]
- May: Space Perspective announces the raising of more than $65 million in total capital to date.
- July: Releases exterior design of Spaceship Neptune.[5]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Space Perspective - Headquarters Locations, Products, Competitors, Financials, Employees". www.cbinsights.com. Retrieved 2022-10-12.
- ↑ Mordowanec, Nick (April 13, 2022). "Out of This World: 'Space Lounge' Offers Fun 20 Miles Above Earth's Surface". Newsweek.
- ↑ Tatham, Serina (June 16, 2022). "Jane Poynter on Bringing Sustainable Space Tourism to Life". Elite Traveler. pp. 116–117.
- ↑ Soderstrom, Alex (July 27, 2022). "Florida startup Space Perspective begins production of its space balloon capsules. See inside". American City Business Journals.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Dvorsky, George (July 27, 2022). "Space Perspective Reveals Capsule Designed to Take Passengers to the Edge of Space". Gizmodo.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Dvorsky, George (April 12, 2022). "Take a Look Inside a Luxury Balloon That Serves Martinis at the Edge of Space". Gizmodo.
- ↑ O'Hare, Maureen (July 27, 2022). "Take a look at the 'world's only carbon-neutral spaceship'". CNN.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Brinkmann, Paul (May 1, 2022). "Space balloon entrepreneurs". Aerospace America.
- ↑ Verdon, Michael (July 27, 2022). "This Luxury Space Balloon Now Has a Stylish New Interior". Robb Report.
- ↑ Wagh, Manasee (April 18, 2022). "Peek Inside the Space Balloon Lifting Passengers 100,000 Feet Above Earth's Surface". Popular Mechanics.
- ↑ Kooser, Amanda (April 12, 2022). "Space Balloon Company's Luxurious 'Space Lounge' Has Bar, Mood Lighting". CNET.
- ↑ "About - Commercial Spaceflight Federation". Commercial Spaceflight Federation.
- ↑ Nowogrodzki, Anna (August 11, 2016). "How Living Inside Biosphere 2 Changed These Scientists Lives | Mental Floss". Mental Floss.
- ↑ Betancourt, Mark (January 2017). "The Highest Jump". Air & Space/Smithsonian.
- ↑ United States Patent 2009/0172935 A1 Paragon Dive System
- ↑ Berger, Eric (June 26, 2020). "Rocket Report: Used Falcon 9s to launch humans, Scottish spaceport advances". Ars Technica.
- ↑ Berger, Eric (December 2, 2022). "Space balloon company raises funds, will conduct first test flight next year". Ars Technica.
- ↑ Wright, Lisa (September 8, 2022). "Will Space Perspective's Balloon Capsule Revolutionize Space Travel?". Yahoo! News.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Foust, Jeff (June 24, 2021). "Space Perspective performs first balloon test flight, begins ticket sales". SpaceNews. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Edge of Space Contest Winners for Artwork and Student-Led Research Take Flight". Higher Orbits. July 2, 2021.
- ↑ "Projects - Living Light - BEYOND EARTH". Beyond Earth. June 23, 2021.
- ↑ Thomas, Geoffrey (March 21, 2022). "Space Perspective Moves Towards First Commercial Flight In 2024". Airline Ratings.
- ↑ Noone, Brian (Autumn 2022). "Dinning with the stars". Departures. p. 34.
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