TransOrbital
Encyclopedia
TransOrbital is a California
-based company which became the first private company granted U.S. government permission to explore, photograph, and land on the moon. The company has been covered in over 2,000 news articles worldwide, and announced a sponsorship agreement with Hewlett-Packard in 2003. The company has not yet launched the TrailBlazer lunar orbiter, which hopes to be the first private mission to the Moon.
TransOrbital launched a test spacecraft into orbit in 2002 aboard a Dnepr-1 launch vehicle. The satellite is a 420 kg test article that orbits the earth every 97 minutes.
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
-based company which became the first private company granted U.S. government permission to explore, photograph, and land on the moon. The company has been covered in over 2,000 news articles worldwide, and announced a sponsorship agreement with Hewlett-Packard in 2003. The company has not yet launched the TrailBlazer lunar orbiter, which hopes to be the first private mission to the Moon.
TransOrbital launched a test spacecraft into orbit in 2002 aboard a Dnepr-1 launch vehicle. The satellite is a 420 kg test article that orbits the earth every 97 minutes.