The Russians are part of this COTS proposal from Space Systems Loral and Constellation Services International (CSI). I was told by CSI that it was offering its LEO Express Space Cargo intellectual proprty to others, now we know who
Read MSNBC’s take on the situation here
This CSI based proposal would require the US Congress to continue its relief for NASA from the Iran-Syria non-proliferation act, from 2011 when it currently runs out
Here is some non-COTS collaboration for NASA and apparently Wikipedia’s COTS page has been updated
Space Exploration Technologies has also updated its website with a lot of information about first-stage hot firing tests of its Falcon 9 rocket and developments for its Dragon capsule. Watch movies of the hot fire test and a simulation of its Dragon capsule docking with ISS, here and here
“New Space” company Xcor has announced successful rocket tests and NASAWatch.com has linked to an Aviation Week article about the most recent Space Investment Summit
“New Space” follower Clark Lindsey has got the investigative bit between his teeth when it comes to the accident at Scaled Composites in July with two postings, here and here
While here Rand Simbrg questions a fellow bloggers ideas about that holy grail, lowering access to space costs
