by Rob Coppinger | Jan 2, 2009 | Constellation, exploration, NASA
According to sources at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) this week saw Bourne trilogy producer Doug Liman tour KSC for his new big budget Moon mission movie Has Hollywood discovered the Constellation programme too late? Can it drum up a greater public awareness...
by Rob Coppinger | Dec 5, 2008 | Apollo, Constellation, exploration, History, International Space Station
Following on from the comments made about the last post concerning Hyperbola’s lunar architecture I thought it a good idea to set out a few more parameters and set the scene in a bit more detail before going forward (aka do some flaming mitigation). And I need a...
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 | Dec 3, 2008 | Constellation, exploration, History, NASA
In good aerospace project fashion the Hyperbola alternate vision for space exploration architecture update, part 2b, lunar operations, will be delayed to Friday 5 December
by Rob Coppinger | Nov 28, 2008 | Apollo, Constellation, ESA, exploration, History, International Space Station, JAXA, NASA, Personal spaceflight, Technology
Hyperbola has now got its own Youtube channel and that can be found here on Youtube During the coming weeks many videos previously only found on www.flightglobal.com and previously unseen video will find their way onto Hyperbola’s FlightHyperbola Youtube...
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...
