All articles by Rob Coppinger – Page 24
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Pratt & Whitney Canada to use White Knight II for engine research
Virgin Galactic's Scaled Composites-designed White Knight II will help Pratt & Whitney Canada obtain high-altitude performance data for its PW308A...
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Exceltech Aerospace aims for Americas expansion
Canadian maintenance repair and overhaul company Exeltech Aerospace is aiming to invest in a southern US...
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ESA offers astronaut training for European space tourism
To aid a European suborbital tourism industry the European Space Agency might provide astronaut training, but its first step is expected to be an annual...
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UK government report recommends space tourism rules should help industry
Regulation of suborbital and orbital tourism should be developed in phases to facilitates the new space industry's growth, according to the UK's Science...
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Suborbital travel has low carbon footprint says ESA
Suborbital flights could have a better carbon footprint per passenger than transatlantic airline travel, a preliminary European Space Agency study has found. The...
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Technology briefings
SPACEDEV AWARDED DARPA SATELLITE PROGRAMME EXTENSION PROPULSION The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has extended Spacedev's High Delta-V...
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Moon base infrastructure reports expected by December
MOON MISSION ROB COPPINGER LONDON Agencies tune in to lunar communications challenge High-definition television is key to scientific and public...
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Space agencies plan robotic lunar exporation agreement
This year could see the signing by the world's major space agencies of a charter for the joint robotic exploration of the Moon, with landers reaching the...
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Apollo-like capsule chosen for Crew Space Transportation System
In a departure from previous spherical Russian capsule designs, a conical manned capsule with a service module has been selected for the European...
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Constellation's year of preliminary design reviews sees mixed progress
Leaders of NASA's return-to-the-Moon Constellation programme are reporting steady progress despite a delay from September to November of the Orion crew exploration...
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Ceramic matrix composites will enable hypersonic transportation says NASA expert
Ceramic matrix composites (CMC) could enable air-breathing hypersonic vehicles to be developed because of their light weight and high temperature resistance....
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JAPAN DEVELOPS BALLOON-LAUNCHED VEHICLE PROPULSION The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is developing a balloon-based operation vehicle that would...
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NASA to test fan for hypersonic turbine combined cycle engine
NASA is to test a 57%-scale fan for a turbofan combined cycle engine. This follows work that has continued progress made with the cancelled NASA...
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Woven carbon could be key to all-composites engines
A cooled structure for a conceptual dual-mode ramjet will be tested shortly as part of ongoing joint research by European missile...
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NASA completes J-2 turbomachinery tests for J-2X data
NASA has successfully completed its first series of tests, conducted from December 2007 to May this year at NASA's Stennis Space Center, for its J-2X...
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JAXA aims for 2009 pre-cooled turbojet flight test
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is to fire a subscale hypersonic pre-cooled turbojet engine called S-Engine by August...