by Rob Coppinger | Apr 9, 2010 | ESA, History, NASA, Seradata News
Today Hyperbola is calling on the UK space industry, advocacy groups and political parties to back the idea of television programming from the European Space Agency and NASA to be broadcast in the UK via all means available. Outreach was highlighted as an area of...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 23, 2010 | ESA, Seradata News, Soyuz
Speaking to Hyperbola at the launch of the UK Space Agency today European Space Agency director-general Jean-Jacques Dordain said that a decision would be made in April about when the first Samara Space Center Soyuz 2-1a rocket flight from Sinnamary in French...
by Rob Coppinger | Feb 10, 2010 | commercial launch services, ESA, Space tourism, Suborbital, Technology
Not yet available at either the British National Space Centre or Space Innovation and Growth Team (IGT) websites but found here at its own website, here are some choice qoutes from the latest review of the UK’s spaceflight industry, the Space IGT’s...
by Rob Coppinger | Jan 28, 2010 | ESA, exploration
The European Space Agency is to fund parallel industrial studies to examine how ESA can contribute to international human space exploration over the next 20 years with particular focus on risks, life cycle costs, enabling technologies and “strategic...
by Rob Coppinger | Jan 25, 2010 | commercial launch services, ESA, Russia, Soyuz
Media coverage of a new European rocket increasingly referred to as Ariane 6 is slowly building momentum. Much of this slow burn excitement is due to the belief that the new launcher will replace the continent’s workhorse, Ariane 5. But it is likely it...
by Rob Coppinger | Jan 13, 2010 | ESA, International Space Station
EADS Astrium has announced that ATV-2 Johannes Kepler is undergoing flightworthiness and functionality tests. Its press release says:”Johannes Kepler”, the second unmanned European cargo spacecraft for the International Space Station (ISS), is currently...
