December 2013
Zero-G Flight of The Canaries The Canary News can now confirm what seemed at first like a story straight out of science fiction. The face of tourism, as well as that of high-level technologies of global importance in Spain is about to change beyond anyone’s wildest imaginings.
they will rely on a worldwide network of internationally renowned partners and advisors, who all support S3 and trust their extraordinary vision. While Swiss Space Systems - S3 is a new company, they benefit from decades of research, design, testing and implementation with partners and advisors who will provide them with a know-how second-to-none and the best available technologies already developed and certified.
Swiss specialist aerospace company, S3, has officially inaugurated a daughter company, S3 Spain, and in the presence of the Minister of Industry, Energy and Tourism M. Jose Manuel Soria Lopez, along with representatives of the local and The new Spanish company, to be based in Gran Canaria, will play a key role in national authorities as well as international guests, are to present an audacious the engineering and development of sub-orbital flight systems, as well as in the plan to bring ‘low-cost’ commercial space flights to The Canary Islands by 2018 manufacturing of the upper‐stage payload delivery systems. The Canary Island S3’s objective is to develop, manufacture, certify and operate unmanned subregion will be the first European operations centre from which S3 will launch orbital “spaceplanes” for small satellite deployment. There are a range of satel- satellites starting in 2018. Before that however it is to become the very first lites and other payloads they will be able to launch, weighing up to 250 kg. European location from which S3 will operate Zero-G flights for tourists and for scientific research, as they move towards the development of low-cost delivery The start of the test flights is planned for 2017. In order to achieve this goal, systems to outer space.