by Rob Coppinger | Oct 2, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, Constellation, COTS, ESA, exploration, History, International Space Station, JAXA, NASA, Personal spaceflight, Russia, Satellites, Soyuz, space station, Space tourism, Spaceport, Suborbital, Technology, Virgin Galactic
Hyperbola is launching to the Oort cloud for a week’s R&R from today and will be returning via Daejeon, Korea from the 12 October. In Daejeon Hyperbola will be blogging from the International Astronautical Congress, where the world’s space...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 1, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, COTS, NASA, Personal spaceflight
Congressional support for NASA’s return to the Moon Constellation programme can now be seen to have made a material impact on efforts to get commercial ventures underway, in this story on flightglobal.com Back in April Hyperbola reported how the $150 million for...
by Rob Coppinger | Sep 30, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, COTS, NASA, Technology
If starting and then stopping, within a week, a procurement process for human rating commercial crew transport vehicles seems strange then the sum of money that came attached might seem even strangerNASA has told Hyperbola: “We received a total of $1...
by Rob Coppinger | Jul 24, 2009 | Ares, Commercial human spaceflight, Constellation, COTS, exploration, Orion, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Spaceport, Virgin Galactic, White Knight
From 25 July to 14 August Hyperbola will be based in the US and working on the east coast and in Colorado and Utah, on Mountain time. From the public debut of Virgin Galactic’s WhiteKnight Two at the EAA AirVenture air show at Oshkosh to the latest on...
by Rob Coppinger | Jul 16, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, COTS, exploration, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism
Will Futron, the company that predicted the space tourism market after SpaceShipOne get it right again? This press release was just sent outPlaya Vista, CA (July 16, 2009) – A study performed by the Futron Corporation, an aerospace consultancy based in Bethesda,...
by Rob Coppinger | Jun 30, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, COTS, exploration, NASA, Personal spaceflight, space station, Space tourism, Spaceport, Technology
The Commercial Spaceflight Federation, whichly recently re-branded from Personal Spaceflight Federation, has released the statement you’ll find in the extended portion of this blog post and placed this white paper on its website In an email to journalists...
