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 12, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, NASA, Technology
Progress for the test flight vehicle Ares I-X has been the subject of a NASA release this week and in the above Ares I-X team 90-day timetable it looks like August will see stacking of the experimental booster, planned for high bay three of the vehicle assembly...
by Rob Coppinger | Jun 9, 2009 | ESA, exploration, Technology
A lunar landing technology demonstrator could be flown in 2012 if a €1 million ($1.39 million) German Aerospace Center (DLR) feasibility study awarded to EADS Astrium is successful The €1 million study starts this month and lasts for nine months, ending with a...
by David Todd | May 26, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, COTS, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Spaceport, Suborbital, Technology
Hyperbola hears that the British Broadcasting Corporation has been in the USA filming for a new series of the science and technology programme Tomorrow’s World that was a feature of UK television from the 1960s to 2003Tomorrow’s World will apparently,...
by David Todd | May 21, 2009 | commercial launch services, Satellites, Technology
Arianespace says: Inmarsat has chosen Arianespace to launch its new Alphasat I-XL communications satellite. The contract follows a partnership agreement between Inmarsat and the European Space Agency for commercialisation of the first mission to use the new European...
by David Todd | May 21, 2009 | Space tourism, Technology, Virgin Galactic, White Knight
Yesterday on 20 May Scaled Composite’s WhiteKnight Two prototype Virgin Mothership Eve flew for the fifth time Virgin Galactic president Will Whitehorn has told Hyperbola that the test lasted 3h and that: “Flight 5 has been a great success as it tested the...
