All articles by Rob Coppinger – Page 20
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Presidential candidate nominee backs Shuttle retirement delay
Orbiter Atlantis is prepared for its STS-125 Hubble Space Telescope servicing...
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ESA to study Asian space industry threat
Competitive threats to Europe's space industry posed by India and China - as well as opportunities for co-operation - are to be the focus of a €200,000 ($296,000)...
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COTS rocket could launch plasma engine to International Space Station
A scale-model plasma rocket engine that is to be tested at the International Space Station could be delivered in 2012 by a NASA Commercial...
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Stellar result in UK MoD's 'Grand Challenge' contest
The UK Ministry of Defence has selected Team Stellar as the winner of its urban warfare-related Grand Challenge...
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NASA faces budget busting crawlerway rebuild for Ares V
NASA's Kennedy Space Center crawlerway may have to be rebuilt because the combined weight of the agency's Ares...
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Iran claims satellite launching rocket first
Iran's Safir rocket has been successfully launched in preparation for the country's first domestically designed and built satellite, according to the Iranian...
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NewsESA to begin CSTS Moon return skip-entry work
Guidance and control strategies for "anytime return" from the Moon's surface are the focus of work starting this year by the European Space Agency for its...
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UK MoD wants urban capability rapidly from its Grand Challenge
The UK Ministry of Defence wants to develop a robotic urban operations capability as fast as possible with an approach similar...
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Armadillo test fires rocket engine, Velocity XL integration
In this exclusive photograph from the Rocket Racing League (RRL), Armadillo Aerospace's liquid oxygen (LOX),...
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ESA funds spaceplane 'final approach' system
The European Space Agency is to spend up to €100,000 ($150,300) developing and validating guidance approaches and guidance algorithms for a future European...
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UK funds React rotor technology project
The UK's AgustaWestland -led three-year £8.8 million ($16.8 million) Rotor Embedded Actuator Control Technology...
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High altitude platform sensor offers 24/7 vehicle tracking
Helicopter flight trials for a high-altitude platform persistent surveillance technology could start in the first quarter of 2011 as part of a Defense...
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NASA requests attitude thruster for lunar LADEE spacecraft main propulsion
NASA has requested propulsion proposals for its $80 million Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer...
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Carter almost ready to fly slowed rotor/compound helicopter
A second slowed rotor/compound helicopter prototype could be flown for the first time in December, according to its developer, Texas based- Carter...
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NASA tackles active propellant cooling
Actively cooled cryogenic thermal shielding and related multi-layer insulation performance is the next stage of NASA Glenn Research Center and Ball Aerospace's...
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Rosetta spies Steins for 800km rendezvous
The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft started using its Optical, Spectroscopic, and...
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Stage collision ends SpaceX's third Falcon flight hopes
Space Exploration Technologies' third Falcon 1 rocket flight failed on 2 August when the first-stage...