Roscosmos confirms a go for 2013 Indian Soyuz mission

India is to have two new cosmonauts flown on a Russian Energia Soyuz TMA spacecraft in 2013 under an agreement between the two countriesThe Russian Federal Space Agency (aka Roscosmos) confirmed to Hyperbola other media reports of the done deal that comes...

PICTURE: India’s manned Orbital Vehicle concept

Hyperbola’s colleagues here at Flight have been out at Aero India 2009 and from a quick snapshot of a slide shown during a presentation by G. Madhavan Nair, Indian Space Research (ISRO) organisation chairman, we have produced the above graphic showing the...

Less is more

For those of wanting quick links and less blurb, these are the stories that have peeked my interest in the last few days. Go here for space.com’s live coverage of the launch of NASA’s Dawn asteroid mission Russia is having to carry out more work to clean...