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 | Sep 30, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, COTS, NASA, Technology
If starting and then stopping, within a week, a procurement process for human rating commercial crew transport vehicles seems strange then the sum of money that came attached might seem even strangerNASA has told Hyperbola: “We received a total of $1...
by Rob Coppinger | Aug 5, 2009 | Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital, Technology, Virgin Galactic
Hyperbola has heard that following the rocket motor tests that Virgin Galactic publicised with videos earlier this year (and its prime contractor Scaled Composites reported on its online test logs) work is focusing on the flight weight engineIn all rocket...
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 17, 2009 | Apollo, Technology
Last week Paul Coffman and Bob Biggs, former Rocketdyne engineers and members of the development teams for the J-2 and F-1 engines, respectively,spoke to Flightglobal through a teleconference organised by Pratt & Whitney RocketdyneBoth are now consultants on...
by Rob Coppinger | Jul 17, 2009 | ESA, Technology
The European Space Agency has just this minute released this information with an invite to media to attend the Thales Alenia Space Italy contract signing event – it is on MondaySet for launch in 2010, the data collected by the European Experimental...
