Amir Ansari is co-founder of venture capital firm Prodea. Along with his sister-in-law Anousheh Ansari, he made a multi-million contribution to the X-Prize foundation on May 5, 2004, the 43rd anniversary of Alan Shepard's sub-orbital spaceflight. The X-Prize was officially renamed the Ansari X Prize in honour of their donation. Image File history File links Amir_Ansari. ... Image File history File links Amir_Ansari. ... Anousheh Ansari is co-founder and CEO of Telecom Technologies, Inc. ... The X prize logo shows a stylised letter X representing a spacecraft trajectory and containing a starfield. ... May 5 is the 125th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (126th in leap years). ... It has been designated the: International Year of Rice (by the United Nations) International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO) 2004 World Health Day topic was Road Safety (by World Health Organization) Year of the Monkey (by the Chinese calendar) See the world in...
Born in 1970 in Tehran, Iran, Ansari immigrated to the United States in 1979 at the onset of the Islamic Revolution. He received his bachelor's of science in electrical engineering and computer science at George Mason University. 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... Map of Iran and surrounding lands, showing location of Tehran The towering Alborz mountains rising above modern Elahiyeh district and its green neighborhoods. ...
Amir, along with his brother Hamid and sister-in-law Anousheh, founded telecom technologies inc.(TTI) in 1993, and served as the company's CTO. TTI was acquired by Sonus Networks in 2000. Chief Technical Officer or Chief Technology Officer, usually seen as CTO, is a business executive position whose holder is focused on technical issues in a company. ... The Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) is a department at Texas A&M University that does research on transportation to increase the safety and efficiency of vehicles (as well as roads and rails, in the case of ground transport). ...
Most recently, Prodea has announced the formation of a parntership with Space Adventures, Ltd. and the Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation (FSA)to create a fleet of suborbital spaceflight vehicles for global commercial use.
During a few minutes, from the point when the engines are shut off to the point where the craft begins to slow its descent for landing, the passengers will experience weightlessness.
Privately-held companies such as Rocketplane Limited and Blue Origin are taking an interest in sub-orbital spaceflight, due in part to ventures like the Ansari X Prize.
NASA and others are experimenting with scramjet based hypersonic aircraft which may well be used with flight profiles that qualify as sub-orbital spaceflight.
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