by Rob Coppinger | Apr 26, 2010 | Seradata News
Following a meeting between the Space Shuttle and International Space Station programmes and the space operations mission directorate’s senior management NASA has concluded that STS-133/Discovery now becomes the Launch-On-Need (LON) vehicle for the...
by Rob Coppinger | Jan 15, 2010 | Seradata News
credit: EADS Astrium / caption: The European Space Agency’s Automated Transfer Vehicle 2 undergoing asembly at an EADS Astrium facilitycredit: EADS Astrium / caption: A section of ESA’s Automated Transfer Vehicle undergoing asembly at an EADS Astrium...
by Rob Coppinger | Jan 13, 2010 | ESA, International Space Station
EADS Astrium has announced that ATV-2 Johannes Kepler is undergoing flightworthiness and functionality tests. Its press release says: “Johannes Kepler”, the second unmanned European cargo spacecraft for the International Space Station (ISS), is currently...
by David Todd | Apr 27, 2009 | Seradata News
Since 2006 there have been a series of news articles reporting Chinese customers for space tourism, from MSNBC, the state owned China Daily, South Africa’s iol.ca.za, Pakistan’s Daily Times, and the technology website EE Times. Reports range from one...
by Rob Coppinger | Feb 19, 2009 | ESA, International Space Station
credit NASA / caption: this picture is of ATV-1 leaving ISS, Kepler will fly in mid-2010 The European Space Agency has announced that the second of its five planned Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) resuppy spacecraft for the International Space Station (ISS) will be...
