by Rob Coppinger | Jul 6, 2009 | China, ESA, exploration, International Space Station
During a short conversation with European Space Agency director general Jean-Jacques Dordain this morning here in Paris, at the 3rd European Conference for Aerospace Sciences, Hyperbola asked him about India, South Korea and China During the first public meeting of...
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...
by Rob Coppinger | Jun 25, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, NASA, Personal spaceflight, Russia
The study did not address the other US Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) – a heavy-lift version of the Atlas V – because of “no clear advantages and several disadvantages,” including the difficulty in obtaining human-rating data...
by Rob Coppinger | Jun 24, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, NASA, Space Shuttle, Technology
Speaking to NASA Space Shuttle programme office manager and shuttle derived heavy lift vehicle proponent John Shannon today he expressed views on the outcome of the Norman Augustine led review that could cheer some but perhaps concern a lot more”There is...
by Rob Coppinger | Jun 13, 2009 | ESA, exploration, History, Russia, Soyuz, Technology
Go here to find out more about how you can follow all the tweet action from the Flightglobal team working this week at the Le Bourget Paris Salon de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace (that’s aeronautics and space to the anglais only readers out there) as...
by Rob Coppinger | Jun 13, 2009 | ESA, exploration, History, Russia, Satellites, Soyuz
It is a bright and sunny Saturday (13 June) morning here in le Bourget, France where preparations continue for the 100th Paris air show that will see a whole of lot of aeronautics stuff and plenty of European spaceflight industry and agency activity to fill the...
