by Rob Coppinger | Apr 26, 2010 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, NASA, Orion, Seradata News
credit: NASA / caption: plenty has been done and there is plenty more for Constellation When this blogger saw the headline of this 30 March article by Aviation Week’s senior space editor Frank Morring it seemed that the “program of record” that dare...
by Rob Coppinger | Jan 18, 2010 | Ares, Commercial human spaceflight, Constellation, COTS, exploration, NASA, Orion, Russia, Soyuz
As the first week of February edges closer it would seem that the fiscal year 2011 NASA budget request, which all and sundry expected to reveal the new US human spaceflight vision, will do no such thing This re-tweeted tweet care of the well informed Jeff Foust and...
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 28, 2009 | Seradata News
Watch this video from the International Astronautical Congress in Daejeon, Korea where the future of the International Space Station was discussed by the ISS partners Go here for more IAC2009 videos