by Rob Coppinger | Oct 2, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, Constellation, COTS, ESA, exploration, History, International Space Station, JAXA, NASA, Personal spaceflight, Russia, Satellites, Soyuz, space station, Space tourism, Spaceport, Suborbital, Technology, Virgin Galactic
Hyperbola is launching to the Oort cloud for a week’s R&R from today and will be returning via Daejeon, Korea from the 12 October. In Daejeon Hyperbola will be blogging from the International Astronautical Congress, where the world’s space...
by Rob Coppinger | Jul 8, 2009 | History, Russia, Soyuz, space station
First Briton in space Helen Sharman spoke to Hyperbola after being awarded the first silver astronaut pin by the British Interplanetary Society (BIS) on 3 July 2009. Sharman flew to the Mir space station in May 1991. Called Project Juno the mission had...
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 | 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 | Commercial human spaceflight, International Space Station, Russia, Soyuz, space station, Space tourism
*** NEWS TELE-CONFERENCE *** SPACE ADVENTURES’ CEO ERIC ANDERSON FRIDAY, APRIL 3 – 1:00 p.m. (EDT) SPACE ADVENTURES’ CEO ERIC ANDERSON TO DISCUSS FUTURE OF SPACE TOURISM, AVAILABLE SEATS FOR UPCOMING ORBITAL FLIGHTS WHAT:...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 1, 2009 | China, exploration, space station, Technology
In a 23min 44s one-on-one interview with Flight the head of China’s manned space programme, Dr Zhou Jianping, talked about the future of the Shenzhou spacecraft, the country’s space laboratory plans, how the docking missions will be organised, what...
