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production at the company’s facilities near its operations centre at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Space Perspective is pursuing an alternative path of proprietary space travel innovation by exploiting technology to achieve a carbon neutral route to the edge of the cosmos. This pursuit has seen thousands of virtual flight tests, simulations and analysis runs with cutting-edge technology from Siemens Digital Industries and AWS resulting in a pioneering capsule and splash cone design. The elegant spherical exterior of the capsule maximises the 360-degree panoramic views via the largest-ever, patented windows to be taken to the edge of space and a roomier Space Lounge interior, offering plenty of headroom as Explorers move around the capsule. The proprietary splash cone ensures Spaceship Neptune’s ocean landing is gentle and safe. This approach is a very long way from previous rocket- fuelled space endeavours due to a completely new method of propulsion. Expected to be available for commercial use by the end of 2024, future space tourists to take flight aboard Spaceship Neptune will safely ascend to the edge of space in the climate-controlled, pressurised capsule propelled by a patented space balloon, observing the phenomenal beauty of Earth from space. The six-hour round trip enables anybody who can board an aeroplane to soak in the beautiful views of
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pace travel is about to get safer, more comfortable, and even more thrilling, according to Space Perspective, a luxury space travel company which has recently unveiled its patent-pending Spaceship Neptune capsule design. The capsule is undergoing
the thin blue line circling earth below and the dark vastness of space above.
CAPSULE FEATURES Space Perspective’s state-of-the-art composite capsule manufacturing facility, in conjunction with a detailed series of parallel processed analyses and design iterations, led to Spaceship Neptune features including an elegantly smooth, spherical pressure vessel designed for the ultimate space lounge experience and comfort. The iconic spherical shape of the exterior offers a roomier interior with more headroom, as well as the added safety benefit of optimal pressure resistance. It also has an enhanced patent-pending splash cone, refined from hundreds of digital iterations, to attenuate splashdown for a gentle, safe landing that improves customer experience and hydrodynamics. With water landings considered by NASA as the low risk way of returning a capsule from space, following the gradual two-hour descent to Earth and a gentle splash down in the ocean, a Space Perspective crew will retrieve passengers, the capsule, and the space balloon by ship. The reflective coated windows and centre section of the capsule is similar to that of an astronaut’s helmet and is designed to limit solar gain and keep the interior space lounge comfortable and cool. In addition, a patent-pending thermal control system is in place to maintain safe and comfortable temperature levels. The exterior of the capsule travels through a wide range of thermally dynamic environments and the system will keep the interior and its passengers at a consistently comfortable temperature.
Spaceship Neptune could provide a safer, more comfortable and sustainable way for ordinary people to travel to the edge of space
Space 12 /// Testing & Test Houses /// October 2022
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