by Rob Coppinger | Feb 3, 2009 | Seradata News
credit S P Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation / caption: Progress M66 is processedI found a couple of Russian and Chinese items today. Energia has been posting photo reports of the progress, as it were, of the Progress M66 cargo resupply vehicle and at the...
by Rob Coppinger | Jan 30, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, Personal spaceflight
credit SpaceX / The FAA assessment examined the potential impact from 120 launches over five yearsThe US Federal Aviation Administration has posted to the US government’s federal register today its Environmental Assessment (EA) that found no significant...
by Rob Coppinger | Jan 19, 2009 | Seradata News
credit Space Exploration TechnologiesFor those of you who didn’t spot it in my colleague John Croft’s NASA commercial resupply services (CRS) analysis Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has apparently started a study for NASA on how to send to...
by Rob Coppinger | Dec 2, 2008 | Seradata News
credit: SpaceXThis Dragon spacecraft qualification unit is going through leak and structural integrity testing. For the leak tests the capsule is pressurised to ensure there are “no leaks in the structure itself, or through the hatches, and...
by Rob Coppinger | Sep 10, 2008 | Seradata News
This is the first-stage of the Falcon I flight model five and in the distance is its upper stageHere is part of the Dragon qualification article. It is the lower portion of the pressurised sectionStanding next to it is SpaceX Falcon 9 programme integrator John...
