by Rob Coppinger | Jan 21, 2009 | Seradata News
credit NASA / caption: Orbiter Atlantis and its SSMEs. Click on the image to see a larger versionNASA has told Hyperbola, “Some individuals at NASA believe that a limited number of established or start-up commercial space transportation organizations may...
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 19, 2008 | History, NASA, Space Shuttle
So this NASA RFI on sending Orbiter’s to museums has done the rounds on the internet but the reality is that the fleet won’t be retired in 2010. Why, you may ask?It is as simple as thisThe end of the Space Shuttle programme is going to see thousands lose...
by Rob Coppinger | Nov 18, 2008 | Seradata News
credit: NASA / caption: but when in ’09?The latest Space Shuttle programme manifest shows the Ares I-X launch put back to 11 July 2009, assuming a 12 May date next year for the lift-off of Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing mission four (SM4),...
by Rob Coppinger | Nov 11, 2008 | Seradata News
credit: NASA / caption: this image is from STS-61With the NASA Authorisation act 2008 setting the US space agency the challenge of sending the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) instrument to the International Space Station before September 2010, the...
