by Rob Coppinger | Mar 29, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, ESA, exploration, JAXA, NASA, Space tourism
This week Hyperbola is coming from the US of A and in particular two spaceflight conferences. They are, the Space Foundation’s National Space Symposium, usually at the beginning of which there are protesters outside so one wonders if that will happen again this...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 17, 2009 | ESA, Russia
According to ESA’s press release This afternoon, the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) was lofted into a near-sunsynchronous, low Earth orbit by a Rockot launcher lifting off...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 17, 2009 | ESA, Russia
Halted at 7s from blast off yesterday the European Space Agency and its Russian Rockot launch provider EUrockot, the EADS Astrium, Khrunichev Space Center joint venture, will try to send the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 16, 2009 | ESA, Russia, Satellites
The European Space Agency mission GOCE was held at 7s and will be delayed until tomorrow Review the countdown here at ESA’s twitter page and follow the space agency’s “photo stream” at Flickr
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 4, 2009 | ESA, exploration
The European Space Agency has released information about its lunar lander plans 15 months after Flight first reported on it in November 2007 and the agency’s exporation director Bernard Hufenbach provided Hyperbola with more lander detail in the following April...
by Rob Coppinger | Feb 19, 2009 | ESA, International Space Station
The European Space Agency has announced that the second of its five planned Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) resuppy spacecraft for the International Space Station (ISS) will be named Johannes Kepler This was a bit of a surprise as I had been told that after ATV-1,...
