Hyperbola returns to the Oort cloud for the festive season

Reading about president Barack Obama's decision to resurrect the Orion crew exploration vehicle as an escape capsule we are told Read more

Hyperbola is off to the Oort cloud again this week for some R&R but will return with a fiery re-entry Read more

Has the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency given the game away with this diagram from an International Astronautical Congress 2009 JAXA Read more

In an extraordinary exchange between NASA acting adminisrator Christoper Scolese and the US House of Representatives' committee on appropriations' subcommittee Read more

NASA is considering launching Moon rock samples into low lunar orbit using refuelled Altair lunar lander descent stages to overcome Read more

Hyperbola is a technology orientated spaceflght blog written by Flight technical editor Rob Coppinger

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Back in February NASA's head of its Altair lunar lander project office Kathy Laurini spoke to Flight about the agency's Read more