How can a suborbital rocket company make money?
Commercial applications include: • Remote sensing & Reconnaissance – • At 100km a vehicle can see a ground area of nearly 2550 km (1600 mile) diameter. • Low earth orbit observation satellites typically pass over a particular area only once or twice per day. The suborbital vehicle can fly at any time. • Suborbitals can see a much bigger area than what is seen by airplanes or by high altitude balloons. • Space tourism: • Riding a rocket to 100km will be the thrill of a lifetime. • Passengers will experience microgravity, marvel at a spectacular canopy of stars, and observe the clear curvature of the earth. • They will fly past the commonly held boundary to space and can legitimately call themselves space travelers. • Scientific & Technical Applications: • Astronomical & space science observation experiments • Magnetosphere experiments • Atmospheric experiments • Microgravity • Earth sensing experiments. • Testing & calibration of equipment intended for satellites and deep space probes.
