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 has a Space Act agreement with Kennedy Space Center providing atmospheric condition data and access to test facilities to assist in trajectory analysis.
Space Perspective will begin operations in Florida and has a lease with Space Florida to use a building at the former Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center, now called the Launch and Landing Facility.
Space Perspective has raised an initial round of funding led by Base Ventures, with the size of the round undisclosed.
Space Perspective selected Florida because shifting stratospheric winds make a peninsula launch site that allows for splashdowns optimal, and the company identified Kennedy Space Center as an obvious primary launch location within the continental United States.