by Rob Coppinger | Oct 11, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, Constellation, COTS, ESA, exploration, International Space Station, JAXA, NASA, Orion, Russia, Satellites, Soyuz, Space Shuttle, Space tourism, Technology, Virgin Galactic
So Hyperbola has finally touched down in Daejeon in south Korea, after a scorching reentry from the Oort cloud, or was that just the effect of the Korean spicy Kimchi pickle and the even more spicy red pepper paste, Kochu Chang, they put on most of their food? Either...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 2, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, Constellation, COTS, ESA, exploration, History, International Space Station, JAXA, NASA, Personal spaceflight, Russia, Satellites, Soyuz, space station, Space tourism, Spaceport, Suborbital, Technology, Virgin Galactic
Hyperbola is launching to the Oort cloud for a week’s R&R from today and will be returning via Daejeon, Korea from the 12 October. In Daejeon Hyperbola will be blogging from the International Astronautical Congress, where the world’s space...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 2, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, History, NASA, Orion
Much of the media coverage (linked too here and here) about the Government Accountability Office report on NASA’s Constellation programme has focused on the funding angle and cost estimates but Hyperbola found buried on page nine the following:”We...
by Rob Coppinger | Aug 12, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Orion
The blogosphere is all abuzz with the outcome of yesterday’s final public meeting of the Review of US human space flight plans committeeHyperbola, despite being in Washington DC this week and the US for the past two and a bit weeks, has been somewhat hampered in...
by Rob Coppinger | Aug 3, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Orion, Russia, Space Shuttle
Hyperbola understands that the following will be options in the US Review of human spaceflight plans committee report that is to be about 100-pages long;A Space Shuttle extension with more flights beyond any “stretching out” of the current manifest The...
by Rob Coppinger | Aug 3, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, NASA, Orion
Hyperbola has learnt that in the course of the reviews for NASA’s return to the Moon Constellation programme, and its many avenues for meeting the new budget reality, the deletion of test flight Ares I-Y, an Ares I crew launch vehicle (CLV) with a...
