by David Todd | Oct 10, 2012 | ESA, exploration, NASA, SLS, Technology
The 63rd International Astronautical Congress (IAC) took place in Naples, at its Congress centre and exhibition venue at Mostra d’Oltremare during the first week of October. The IAC Congress broke records with its attendance with 4,000 excecutives, scientists,...
by Rob Coppinger | Nov 5, 2009 | Seradata News
credit Flight / caption: Are we looking at the future shape of China’s unmanned cargo resupply spacecraft? This 1:10 scale model of China’s manned space engineering programme’s Tiangong spacelab docked to a Shenzhou spacecraft was exhibited at...
by Rob Coppinger | Nov 5, 2009 | commercial launch services, Satellites, Virgin Galactic
credit: Virgin Galactic / caption: why the straigth wing and v-tail?This design for Virgin Galactic’s mini satellite launching rocket LauncherOne was shown by the company’s small satellite launch general manager Adam Baker at the 60th International...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 27, 2009 | Seradata News
Watch this video of the Internatonal Astronautical Congress in Daejeon, Korea where Virgin Galactic president Will Whitehorn, Sierra Nevada vice president Mark Sirangelo, the FAA’s head of commercial space transportation George Nield and New Mexico space...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 15, 2009 | Seradata News
Senior China space programme officials spoke at the 60th International Astronautical Congress’ “Late breaking news” session on the morning of 15 October, giving an insight into the country’s planning for long term space missions and...