by Rob Coppinger | Apr 8, 2009 | ESA, exploration
The European Space Agency’s Herschel and Planck space telescopes are now to be launched by Arianespace EADS Astrium Ariane 5 on Wednesday 6 MayThe European launch provider made the announcement today. The launch had been delayed a number of times...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 8, 2009 | exploration, NASA, Space Shuttle
Hyperbola has decided to throw a name into the ring for NASA administrator and that person is Walter Cantrell For those of you saying “who!?” Cantrell was appointed as NASA’s deputy chief engineer for the agency’s Independent Technical...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 8, 2009 | Constellation, exploration, NASA
Thankfully, the silliness can end and one more name can be struck off the growing list of never wozzas for the post of NASA administrator. Jeff Foust has reported that Nick Lampson has told the Houston Chronicle that he will not be a candidate for NASA...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 5, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, exploration, JAXA, Personal spaceflight, Technology
A former employee of the Japan Exploration Aerospace Agency Misuzu Onuki, now an aerospace business consultant, spoke to the Space Access Society conference about space activities in Japan and Japanese space tourism Click here to listen to part one Click here to...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 2, 2009 | China, exploration, space station
The chief designer of China’s manned space programme, Zhou Jiaping, speaking now at the National Space Symposium’s international space agency session, has just said that after Shenzhou-9 docks with the target vehicle Tiangong-1 the...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 2, 2009 | ESA, exploration
The European Space Agency is to shortly announce a delay to the launch of its Herschel and Planck space telescopesAlready delayed to the 14 April and then to the 16th ESA says that this latest delay is “a new short delay but not a fixed date”The delay...
