by Rob Coppinger | Feb 1, 2010 | Ares, Commercial human spaceflight, Constellation, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Space Shuttle
Hyperbola is and will be working east coast time to cover the NASA budget publication and reactions to it
by Rob Coppinger | Jan 21, 2010 | Ares, Commercial human spaceflight, Constellation, COTS, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Orion
Is this going to see the big new vision annoucement? The State of the Agency:NASA Future Programs Presentation Sponsored by the NASA Alumni Leaguewith support from the AAS, AIAA and WIA Friday, February 12, 2010James E. Webb AuditoriumNASA Headquarters...
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 | Jan 8, 2010 | Ares, Constellation, ESA, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Orion
NASA’s Orion crew exploration vehicle (CEV) could be launched by the latest version of Europe’s EADS Astrium Ariane 5 rocket by 2019 according to a French government funded study. The Ariane 5 Mid-Life Evolution (ME) variant, planned to begin operations by...
by Rob Coppinger | Dec 17, 2009 | Ares, Commercial human spaceflight, Constellation, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Orion, Russia, Space Shuttle, Technology
Hyperbola has come to the conclusion that the leading exploration option from Norman Augustine’s report, much reported in the press, will sacrifice workforce, skills, infrastructure and technology for a gilded future that will never...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 27, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, COTS, NASA, Orion
Hyperbola is to address the Augustine panel final report in a series of posts in the coming weeks – as we’re not going to see any Obama spaceflight policy decision anytime soon – but to kick off this blogs analysis here are a few interesting words...