PD AeroSpace

Short description: Japanese space tourism company

PD Aerospace

New R&D center of PD Aerospace in Nagoya.

Native name

| PDエアロスペース株式会社

Romanized name

| Pī Dī Earosupēsu Kabushiki-gaisha
Type| KK
Industry| Space tourism
Founded| 30 May 2007; 18 years ago (2007-05-30) in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Founder| Shuji Ogawa
Headquarters|

Nagoya

Japan

Key people

| Shuji Ogawa (President)

Number of employees

| 5
Website| www.pdas.co.jp

PD Aerospace (Japanese: ＰＤエアロスペース株式会社, Hepburn: Pī Dī Earosupēsu Kabushiki-gaisha), often abbreviated PDAS, is a Japanese space tourism company based in Nagoya founded in 2007 by Shuji Ogawa.[1] The "PD" in the company's name stands for "pulse detonation".[2] PDAS is developing a suborbital spaceplane to carry two pilots and six passengers using a hybrid of jet and rocket power. Initial tickets are planned for ¥ 14,000,000 (about $125,000 USD as of April 2017) eventually lowering to ¥400,000 (about $3,600).[3][4]

PDAS plans to develop a hybrid engine that produces jet and rocket thrust, using pulse detonation jet and pulse combustion rocket modes.[5] To reduce the cost of development and keep the vehicle low-cost, PDAS plans to use commercially available hardware, instead of custom-designed parts.[1] H.I.S. and ANA own 10% and 7% of the company, respectively.[3][6]

## See also

* Blue Origin
* Interstellar Technologies, a Japanese rocket startup
* Virgin Galactic

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Entrepreneurs see hope in the heavens". Nikkei Asian Review. 5 December 2015. http://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Trends/Entrepreneurs-see-hope-in-the-heavens.
2. ↑ "Japan Looks Set to Dominate 'Newspace' in Asia; India, China in Play". Forbes. 27 April 2016. https://www.forbes.com/sites/saadiampekkanen/2016/04/27/japan-looks-to-set-dominate-newspace-in-asia-india-china-in-play/.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Boyle, Alan (2 December 2016). "Japanese heavy-hitters invest lightly in PD Aerospace's space tourism effort". GeekWire. http://www.geekwire.com/2016/japan-pd-aerospace-space-tourism/.
4. ↑ Chandran, Nyshka (13 April 2017). "SpaceX doesn't scare Asia's space players". CNBC. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/12/asias-space-tourism-players-arent-scared-of-spacex.html.
5. ↑ "Developing new Rocket Engine, Space Business". Protechnology Magazine. 27 October 2014. http://protechnology.jp/companies/development-and-production-of-prototype/pd-aerospace/.
6. ↑ Cooper, Chris (1 December 2016). "ANA Joins Efforts to Start Space Trips as Possible Virgin Rival". Bloomberg News. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-01/ana-joins-efforts-to-start-space-trips-as-possible-virgin-rival.

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Space tourism

Companies|

| Active|

* Bigelow Aerospace
* Blue Origin
* Airbus D&S
* Mojave Aerospace Ventures
* Orbital Technologies
* Orion Span
* PDAS
* Sierra Nevada Corporation
* Space Adventures
* The Spaceship Company
* SpaceX
* #dearMoon project
* Virgin Galactic

|

Defunct|

* Armadillo Aerospace
* Golden Spike Company
* RocketShip Tours
* Space Island Group (Space Island Project)
* XCOR Aerospace

Organizations|

* ARCA
* Association of Autonomous Astronauts
* Astronaute Club Européen
* Commercial Spaceflight Federation
* Copenhagen Suborbitals
* Space Frontier Foundation
* Space Tourism Society

Spacecraft|

* Current
* Soyuz
* Future
* Boeing CST-100 Starliner
* Dragon 2
* New Glenn
* New Shepard
* SpaceShipTwo
* Starship

Living in space|

* Commercialization of space
* Space colonization
* Space habitat
* Space medicine
* Space station
* Suborbital spaceplane

Space competitions|

* America's Space Prize
* Ansari X Prize
* Google Lunar X Prize
* Space elevator competitions

Space tourists|

* Dennis Tito
* Mark Shuttleworth
* Gregory Olsen
* Anousheh Ansari
* Charles Simonyi
* Richard Garriott
* Guy Laliberté
* Yusaku Maezawa (planned)

* Tourism on the Moon

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