by Rob Coppinger | Apr 12, 2010 | Seradata News
Hyperbola is hearing that astronaut corp rumours are circulating about STS-134, previously the penultimate Space Shuttle fleet flight, saying that it is now to take place in December at the earliest and maybe even January or February 2011One of the...
by Rob Coppinger | Dec 9, 2009 | commercial launch services, Satellites, Spaceport
credit Flight / caption: Arianespace’s Ariane 5 GS stands on its launch padThe launch of France’s Helios 2B reconnaissance satellite has been cancelled for today and is to be rescheduled in a few days timeThe cancellation news came just after 10am local...
by Rob Coppinger | Dec 19, 2008 | History, NASA, Space Shuttle
So this NASA RFI on sending Orbiter’s to museums has done the rounds on the internet but the reality is that the fleet won’t be retired in 2010. Why, you may ask?It is as simple as thisThe end of the Space Shuttle programme is going to see thousands lose...
by Rob Coppinger | Jun 23, 2008 | Seradata News
Space Daily has a brief report about comments by NASA administrator Michael Griffin to ABC news regarding the plan for a rescue mission for the crew of Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission STS-125/HST SM-4 The Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) report...