by Rob Coppinger | Oct 6, 2008 | Constellation, exploration
NASA’s John Connolly spoke at the 59th International Astronautical Congress in Glasgow on Friday 3 October about the process of designing the Altair Lunar Lander and where the project is today. On that Friday there were a series of NASA presentation’s...
by Rob Coppinger | Jul 8, 2008 | Constellation
The big conundrum for NASA’s Constellation programme is how do you design transportation for an exploration strategy that envisages a permanently manned lunar outpost when all your major procurement decisions are based on reusing elements of a largely reusable...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 31, 2008 | Constellation
The following text is my expanded notes from my 28 February 2008 interview with Alliant Techsystems’ (ATK) space launch systems’ vice president Mike Kahn at the company’s clearfield offices in Utah. The [Ares I crew launch vehicle] resonant burning,...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 25, 2008 | Constellation
Below are my expanded notes from my Thursday 20 March interview with Altair project office deputy manager, Clint Dorris. I haven’t included everything. There were a couple of facts that came up that warrant further investigation for stories on flightglobal.com NASA...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 6, 2008 | Constellation
In the extended entry for this blog post there are more details about the changes that NASA’s Ares V cargo launch vehicle has seen since its inception as part of NASA’s Exploration Systems Architecture Study The information is taken from the interview on...
by Rob Coppinger | Feb 27, 2008 | Constellation
Tomorrow (28 February) is the final day of the conference. Hopefully, wifi willing, and without any other commitments interfering I should be live blogging from 0830h for the Lunar Architecture Update plenary sessionModerator: Mr. Doug Cooke, Deputy Associate...
