by Rob Coppinger | Jan 9, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Orion
Did Michael Griffin make his last public speech as NASA administrator on 8 January at the Space Transportation Association’s breakfast meeting? Many think so and all will be revealed soon enough. Hyperbola has managed to obtain an audio recording of...
by Rob Coppinger | Jan 6, 2009 | Ares, Commercial human spaceflight, Constellation, ESA, exploration, International Space Station, JAXA, NASA, Orion, Personal spaceflight, Russia, Satellites, Space Shuttle, Space tourism, Technology, Virgin Galactic
While the blogosphere has been twirling to the rumour mill of Obama inspired military NASA reports (alternate universe stuff as far as Hyperbola is concened) and alleged campaigns in favour of the US space agency administrator Mike Griffin I have written a 2009...
by Rob Coppinger | Dec 3, 2008 | Ares, Constellation, NASA, Technology
NASA’s troubled Ares I crew launch vehicle (CLV) faces more change as the agency’s Glenn Research Center (GRC) investigates a different oxidiser, ammonium dinitramide (ADN), that will eliminate the perchlorate from the CLV’s first-stage solId rocket...
by Rob Coppinger | Nov 25, 2008 | Ares, Constellation, NASA
The essentials of the above solid rocket booster (SRB) design are well known as the basis for both the Ares I crew launch vehicle’s and Ares V cargo launch vehicle’s first stages (Yes NASA is now calling the Ares V SRBs its first-stage) However, the space...
by Rob Coppinger | Nov 3, 2008 | Ares, Constellation, NASA
Back in September I reported about how NASA was considering an electromechanical actuator and provided the schematic above of a system considered in 1993 and now people are wondering about what design Ares will use as the agency identified it as the solution to the...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 16, 2008 | Ares, Constellation, NASA
See the Ares I crew launch vehicle’s instrument unit being assembled and fitted to the rocket’s upper stage in this Boeing produced animation of how construction of the new booster could look at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in the next decade...
