by Rob Coppinger | Sep 1, 2008 | exploration
Gaetano Marano at his Ghostnasa website has leaked, from a European Space Agency website, an EADS Astruim presentation that was part of a 8 July lunar architecture, industry daycredit: EADS AstriumSo it would appear that a European Moon mission would require four...
by Rob Coppinger | Aug 13, 2008 | Seradata News
credit: NASAThis image is from a video of a compressed air cylinders propelled prototype Modular Common Spacecraft Bus, tested by NASA Ames Research Center. The octagon-like common bus will be used for NASA’s 2011 launched Lunar Atmosphere and...
by Rob Coppinger | Jul 8, 2008 | Constellation
credit: NASA / Flight The big conundrum for NASA’s Constellation programme is how do you design transportation for an exploration strategy that envisages a permanently manned lunar outpost when all your major procurement decisions are based on reusing elements...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 25, 2008 | Constellation
Below are my expanded notes from my Thursday 20 March interview with Altair project office deputy manager, Clint Dorris. I haven’t included everything. There were a couple of facts that came up that warrant further investigation for stories on flightglobal.com credit:...
by Rob Coppinger | Nov 6, 2007 | China
MSNBC writes that China’s Moon orbiter Chang’e 1 has entered lunar orbit and here is a report that the country’s space programme is considering using its Long March 3 vehicle for sending a lander mission Yury Zaitsev, Russian Academy of Engineering...
