Space Perspective is a space tourism company that aims to provide accessible spaceflight experiences via high-altitude balloon flights. Their primary product, Spaceship Neptune, is a pressurized capsule propelled by a SpaceBalloon™ designed to offer a safe six-hour journey to the edge of space. Founded by spaceflight veterans Jane Poynter and Taber MacCallum, the company had intended to commence commercial flights in late 2024 or early 2025, but recent reports indicate financial turmoil and a potential shutdown in early 2025.
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Space Perspective is expected to create about 240 jobs with average salaries of $80,000 by the end of 2026.
Space Perspective plans to use a 300-foot-diameter balloon to lift people aboard a pressurized capsule up to 100,0 m before splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico.
Space Perspective performed its first uncrewed high-altitude balloon flight in June, taking a full-size but not full-weight capsule mockup to an altitude of 33 km.
On 2021-10-14, Space Perspective raised $40,000,000 in a Series A funding round led by Prime Movers Lab.
Space Perspective plans to start commercial operations in late 2024 from Florida.
Space Perspective plans 9 to 12 months of uncrewed test flights to perform corner-case testing of the vehicle and safety systems.
Space Perspective plans to begin crewed test flights in late 2023 or early 2024.
Jane Poynter and Taber MacCallum, two World View co-founders, announced the Space Perspective venture in June 2020 to offer passenger balloon flights.
Space Perspective conducted its first uncrewed test flight in 2021 and began selling tickets at $125,000 per person.
Space Perspective offered flights on its Spaceship Neptune capsule for $125,000 per person on 2021-06-23.
Space Perspective performed a test flight on 2021-06-18 from the Florida spaceport that carried a full-size, but not full-weight, mockup of the Neptune capsule to an altitude of 33 km.
Space Perspective plans a next funding round as soon as late 2021 to fund continued development of the Neptune vehicle and is reporting strong interest from potential investors.
Space Perspective raised $7,000,000 in a seed funding round in December 2020.
Space Perspective plans to start selling tickets in 2021 for commercial flights that the company expects to begin in late 2024.
Space Perspective expects to raise another funding round by early 2022 to continue development of its system.
Space Perspective is working with the Federal Aviation Administration to obtain a commercial launch license.
Space Perspective will use the seed funding to continue development of Spaceship Neptune, a stratospheric balloon system designed to carry people to an altitude of 30 km.
Space Perspective raised $7,000,000 in a seed funding round to test its technologies.
Space Perspective closed the seed funding round on 2020-12-02.
Space Perspective plans to develop a system to fly people and research payloads to an altitude of 30 km using a balloon system.