by Rob Coppinger | Jan 26, 2009 | ESA, exploration, International Space Station
Sources close to the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)/Advanced Reentry Vehicle (ARV) team are telling Hyperbola that the November 2008 ESA ministerial meeting outcome was seen as catastrophic for the agency’s hopes for ARV...
by Rob Coppinger | Jan 9, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Orion
Did Michael Griffin make his last public speech as NASA administrator on 8 January at the Space Transportation Association’s breakfast meeting? Many think so and all will be revealed soon enough. Hyperbola has managed to obtain an audio recording of...
by Rob Coppinger | Jan 6, 2009 | Ares, Commercial human spaceflight, Constellation, ESA, exploration, International Space Station, JAXA, NASA, Orion, Personal spaceflight, Russia, Satellites, Space Shuttle, Space tourism, Technology, Virgin Galactic
While the blogosphere has been twirling to the rumour mill of Obama inspired military NASA reports (alternate universe stuff as far as Hyperbola is concened) and alleged campaigns in favour of the US space agency administrator Mike Griffin I have written a 2009...
by Rob Coppinger | Dec 15, 2008 | exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Technology
As revealed by Flight back in August NASA will help its former astronaut Franklin Chang-Díaz “flight” test his engine, the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMIR), on the International Space Station following a...
by Rob Coppinger | Dec 8, 2008 | ESA, exploration, International Space Station, Russia
Hyperbola has come into possesion of the figures for the European Space Agency’s transportation and human exploration budget for the next three years A couple of related figures were kindly provided last week by ESA human spaceflight and microgravity directorate...
by Rob Coppinger | Dec 5, 2008 | Apollo, Constellation, exploration, History, International Space Station
Following on from the comments made about the last post concerning Hyperbola’s lunar architecture I thought it a good idea to set out a few more parameters and set the scene in a bit more detail before going forward (aka do some flaming mitigation). And I need a...
