This story is compiled from Cision PR Newswire releases
Nagoya-based PD Aerospace signed a cooperation agreement to conduct zero-gravity parabolic flights from the Shimojishima Islands with Washington D.C.-based 0-G Launch. 0-G Launch said it will fly its Space Jet™ to Japan on a yearly basis to offer high-precision microgravity parabolic flights from PD Aerospace’s Shimojishima airport facility, where the Nagoya company’s research and development team is located. PD Aerospace will manage and organize the media outreach and logistics to ensure that the flights are accessible to the Japanese and Asian space industry for research, astronaut training and consumer zero-gravity flights.
“I am very excited to announce our first operational footprint in Asia, through our partnership with PD Aerospace in Japan, so that both the regional space industry and consumers can benefit from our latest developments in microgravity flight technology offered from our Shimojishima Island location,” said Robert Feierbach, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of 0-G Launch.
Toshihisa Kumazawa, Regional Representative, Asia for 0-G Launch said: “I am very proud to have brokered this important agreement with PD Aerospace in Japan, as it establishes the first Asian location for 0-G Launch to offer and demonstrate the great advances in microgravity technology that our Space Jet™ will bring to the market, starting in 2024.”
Founded in 2007, PD Aerospace is a Japanese venture company that develops next-generation spaceplanes under a private-sector initiative. The company is building a space transportation business using its own specially-designed spaceplane that can take off and land horizontally, utilizing existing airports to reach outer space and return back to Earth. Its headquarters and research and development center are based in Nagoya City. PD Aerospace is developing its business with Shimojishima Spaceport as its base, in order to provide its own space travel services from 2029.
Editor’s Note: 0-G Launch’s Space Jet™ has no relationship to the now defunct Mitsubishi Heavy Industries “Spacejet.”