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 21, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, NASA, Technology
Alliant Techsystems released on 20 July this image of the first five segment demonstration motor for NASA’s Ares I crew launch vehicle first stage. Called Demonstration Motor One or DM-1 it is set for ignition on 25 August The test had been set for 2 April and...
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 | Jul 7, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Orion, Space Shuttle, Technology
So now we see that some parts of the media are getting all excited about the Shuttle derived Heavy Lift Vehicle. This presentation is, Hyperbola thinks, from the NASA technical team that is reviewing the original work carried out by the Space Shuttle Programme (SSP)...
by Rob Coppinger | Jul 7, 2009 | ESA, exploration, History, International Space Station
At the Paris air show Hyperbola got to interview three of the European Space Agency’s new astronauts, Tim Peake, Andy Mogensen and Samantha Cristoforetti. Go here to listen to the astronaut podcast Peake is the UK’s first ESA astronaut, Mogensen is the...
by Rob Coppinger | Jul 7, 2009 | exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Russia
My pals in the Kremlin (joke!) pointed me to this 6 July 2009 President of Russia statement (above) about the US Russia bilateral Presidential commission that includes a space cooperation working group. The working group is to be led by the head of Roscosmos Anatoly...
