The Traveller's Guide to Commercial Spaceflight
(Current Overview: Status CCDev2, March 2011_U1) 

The cancellation of the Vision of Space Exploration (VSE) Constellation program by President Obama on 1st February 2010 and the various new directions for NASA puts the focus on commercial spaceflight plans and the associated companies. 

The following table tries to compile the available information about  NASA's initatives on Commercial Transport Systems (COTS), Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) and Commercial  Reusable Suborbital Research (CRuSR) to identify the major players in this new and fast growing arena.

The author takes no responsibility for correctness and completenss, the compilation should give an overall impression of the dynamically changing commercial space activities resulting from the recent  decisions with focus on, but are not limited to CRuSR; CCDev2 and COTS assignments.

The second phase of the CCDev programm was initiated in February 2011 by NASA inviting eight companies to Johnson Space Flight Center (JSC) to discuss proposals for the second round of CCDev (CCDev2). The table below has been updated to reflect the recent changes. 

Readers are encouraged to provide corrections and/or update information to the Editor for SpaceOps News (joachimkehr@aol.com).

Glossary:
VTVL = Vertical Takeoff and Vertical Landing
HTHL = Horizontal Takeoff and Horizontal Landing

Alliant Techsystems (ATK) / HQ - Minneapolis  /  George Torres 

Image	Product	L/V	Passengers	SpacePort	Dates	Price	Remarks
	> Liberty Rocket				2013		> CCDev2 candidate > Coop with Astrium  Les Mureaux, France:  Ares-1 solid rocket  Ariane-5 cryogenic  main stage

Image	Product	L/V	Passengers	SpacePort	Dates	Price	Remarks
	> Rocket Race    Propulsion > Methan Mod    (Lunar Lander)	VTVL	single  person to  orbit	Oklahoma Spaceport	--	--	> Cooperation with    OTRAG founder      Lutz Kayser            (Germany) > Work on Lunar        Lander  (X-Price) > CRuSR      candidate

Bigelow Aerospace / Las Vegas, Nev / Robert Bigelow 

Image	Product	L/V	Passengers	SpacePort	Dates	Price	Remarks
	Genesis-I Genesis-II Sundancer BA-330	Dnjepr Altlas 5 Falcon 9	6	Yasni-Russia Cape Canaveral Cape Canaveral	2012	--	CCDev1/2 co-op with Boeing Space Exploration

Blue Origin / Kent, Wash / Robert Millman, Jeff Bezos 

Image	Product	L/V	Passengers	SpacePort	Dates	Price	Remarks
	> New Shephard > Escape system    "pusher" > Composite    pressure vessel  (CC)	Propulsion and Capsule System >VTVL	multiple:  up to 3	West Texas	2012-2015	2.5 Mio per system flight	>Suborbital to   120 km >CCDev1 award >Science Rep:   Dr. A. Stern >CRuSR candidate >CCDev2 candidate

Image	Product	L/V	Passengers	SpacePort	Dates	Price	Remarks
	CST-100 (Orion Lite)	Atlas 5 Falcon 9	7	Cape Canaveral	--	--	>Selcted by NASA        for CCDev1              (Feb.2010) >Co-op with Bigelow >CCDev2 candidate

Excalibur Almaz / Isle of Man/ Leroy Chiao

Image	Product	L/V	Passengers	SpacePort	Dates	Price	Remarks
	> Crewed system     based on     Soviet-era     space H/W	VTVL					> CCDev2 candidate

Masten Space Systems /  Mojave, Ca. / David Masten

Image	Product	L/V	Passengers	SpacePort	Dates	Price	Remarks
	XA-1.0	VTVL	--	--	--	--	>eXtreme Altitude    Vehicles (XA) for  vertical takeoff and  landing. >CRuSR candidate

Image	Product	L/V	Passengers	SpacePort	Dates	Price	Remarks
	> Taurus 2 > Cygnus    (Cargo capsule) > Lifting body S/C     for CCDev2      Lifting body S/C	Atlas 5	4	Wallops Is SpacePort America	2011 2015	--	>COTS contract >Crewed version of the   SpaceX cargo               transporter for CCDev1 (Dragon) >CCDev2 candidate    (lifting body S/C) >Coop with Virgin Galac.

Paragon Space Development / Tucson / Jane Poynter

Image	Product	L/V	Passengers	SpacePort	Dates	Price	Remarks
Air vitalization system testsing	Air  revitalization  system	--	--	--	--	--	>CCDev1 award:   Air revitalization        system.  Compatible with: > Dragon (SpaceX) > Cygnus (Orbital Sci)

Rocketplane /Oklohoma/ Chuck Lauer

Image	Product	L/V	Passengers	SpacePort	Dates	Price	Remarks
	>Model XP	--	5			250.000US$	Suborbital flight    45 km (?)

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) / Sparks Nev. / Mark Sirangelo

Image	Product	L/V	Passengers	SpacePort	Dates	Price	Remarks
	>Dream    Chaser (Lifting body )	Altlas-5	6	Cape Canaveral	--	--	>CCDev1 contract (20 Mio) to built a vehicle structure and propulsion system    >Dream Chaser based on NASA HL-20 >Coop with ULA for manrating Atlas-5 > CCDev2          candidate > Coop with Virgin Galactic

Image	Product	L/V	Passengers	SpacePort	Dates	Price	Remarks
	>Falcon-1 >Falcon-9 >Dragon for   -Cargo  or   -Crew transport	Falcon 9	7	Cape Canaveral	2011	--	> COTS contract from NASA > CCDev2 candidate: Development of a launch abort system for Dragon S/C

TALIS - Project Enterprise / Cochstedt (Germany) / Frank Marco Guenzel (DISCONTINUED IN 2010)

Image	Product	L/V	Passengers	SpacePort	Dates	Price	Remarks
	>Black Sky	HTHL	5...6	Cochstedt (Germany)	2013	150.000Euro	>Suborbital   to 100 km >Coop with   Xtreme Air and SPL

United Launch Alliance (ULA)  (Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture) / Denver / Mike Glass

Image	Product	L/V	Passengers	SpacePort	Dates	Price	Remarks
Delta IV             Atlas V	>Delta IV > Atlas V >L/V health detection system for various launch vehicles	--	--	Cape Canaveral	--	--	Health detection system compatible with: > Atlas-5 > Delta 4 >CCDev1 award >CCDev2 candidate

Vigin Galactic / Mojave / Bob Rutan (Scaled Composites), Paul Anderson (Mojave Aerospace Ventures), Sir R. Branson (V.G.)

Image	Product	L/V	Passengers	SpacePort	Dates	Price	Remarks
	SpaceShip 1+2 White Knight 1+2	HTHL	6	Mojave Spaceport Spaceport America Kiruna, Sweden Coop with Saudia Arabia	2010	200.000 $	> Suborbital to    max. 109 km > Partnership with    Abu Dhabi > CRuSR candidate

XCOR Aero / Mojave Ca / Jeff Greason

Image	Product	L/V	Passengers	SpacePort	Dates	Price	Remarks
	Lynx Mk1	HTHL	1 plus pilot	Mojave Air and Spaceport	2011 marketing ongoing	95.000 $	>Suborbital flights    to 60 km >Coop with    South Korea >CRuSR candidate