by Rob Coppinger | Feb 2, 2010 | Ares, Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, Constellation, COTS, exploration, NASA, Orion
NASA’s first foray into private spaceflight, the commercial orbital transportation services programme, also known as COTS, has seen a 60% hike in the agency’s investment with the fiscal year 2011 budgetOriginally planned to cost $500 million which the...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 23, 2009 | exploration
Don’t forget you can follow Hyperbola on twitter @flighthyperbola and get sneak previews of flightglobal.com stories to come, breaking news facts and figures and see how events unfold through pictures from the very occasion Hyperbola is reporting from. How much...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 15, 2009 | Seradata News
credit: CMSE / caption: this is a three module station These Chinese space station concepts were presented by China Manned Space Engineering deputy general designer Wang Zhonggui at International Astronautical Congress in Daejeon, Korea on 15 October. The space...
by Rob Coppinger | Jan 26, 2009 | Seradata News
credit Energia / caption: First seen at Farnborough air show 2008, will this design change?A prime contractor is to be picked for Russia’s Advanced Crew Transportation System (ACTS) following a meeting of the Russian Federal Space Agency’s (Roscosmo)...
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...