by Rob Coppinger | Jan 8, 2010 | Ares, Constellation, ESA, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Orion
NASA’s Orion crew exploration vehicle (CEV) could be launched by the latest version of Europe’s EADS Astrium Ariane 5 rocket by 2019 according to a French government funded study. The Ariane 5 Mid-Life Evolution (ME) variant, planned to begin operations by...
by Rob Coppinger | Dec 17, 2009 | Ares, Commercial human spaceflight, Constellation, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Orion, Russia, Space Shuttle, Technology
Hyperbola has come to the conclusion that the leading exploration option from Norman Augustine’s report, much reported in the press, will sacrifice workforce, skills, infrastructure and technology for a gilded future that will never...
by Rob Coppinger | Dec 16, 2009 | Constellation, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Orion
Well that’s a generous interpretation because based on this presidential meeting schedule provided by US newspaper Florida Today that 3.05pm to 5.15pm slot is probably more like 90min – that consumer safety commission meeting is bound to...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 27, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, COTS, NASA, Orion
Hyperbola is to address the Augustine panel final report in a series of posts in the coming weeks – as we’re not going to see any Obama spaceflight policy decision anytime soon – but to kick off this blogs analysis here are a few interesting words...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 16, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, NASA
On Monday 12 October Flightglobal reported that NASA administrator Charles Bolden said that a heavy lift vehicle was necessary for exploration and that a vehicle was being costedTalking to sources within the Ares V project and close to the Space Shuttle programme...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 12, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Orion
NASA had told Hyperbola its administrator Charles Bolden was not going to be available here in Daejeon, Korea but a bit of persistence goes a long way and over a few minutes after the heads of agency plenary session Bolden gave away some interesting...
