All articles by Rob Coppinger – Page 34
-
News
UK ministries of defence and education to consider funding launchers
The UK government is ready to provide seed-corn funding for indigenous launch vehicle development, for the first time since its Blue Streak ballistic missile...
-
NewsNASA funding problem threatens Orion's March 2015 launch target
NASA's March 2015 target launch date for its proposed Orion crew exploration vehicle could be in doubt if the agency's finances do not improve by December
-
News
Europe progresses towards virtual certification
A prototype collaborative design environment that could contribute to virtual certification is the outcome of a four-year, �75 million ($107 million) European...
-
News
Greenflight flies Aero L-29 jet trainer on 100% biodiesel
Following the first flight of an Aero Vodochody L-29 jet trainer on 100% biodiesel fuel, planning is...
-
NewsVIDEO: Dambusters veteran says 'Lord of the Rings' director plans movie about famous mission
Dambuster veteran George 'Jimmy' Johnson tells Flight about the Lord of the Rings trilogy director Peter Jackson's plans to make a movie about the famous 1943 mission
-
News
VIDEO: RAF Dam buster veteran George 'Jonny' Johnson talks exclusively to Flight
RAF Dam buster veteran George 'Jonny' Johnson talks exclusively to Flight
-
News
VIDEO: Mercury Seven astronaut Scott Carpenter talks exclusively to Flight
Mercury Seven astronaut Scott Carpenter spoke exclusively to Flight
-
NewsVIDEO: Apollo 15 command module pilot Al Worden talks exclusively to Flight
Apollo 15 command module pilot Al Worden talks exclusively to Flight
-
News
VIDEO: Apollo 17 commander Gene Cernan talks exclusively to Flight
Apollo 17 commander Gene Cernan talks exclusively to Flight
-
NewsVIDEO: Apollo 17 commander disapproves of NASA engineers' new lunar lander ideas
Apollo 17 commander Gene Cernan praised NASA's young Constellation programme engineers but criticised their ideas for the agency's new lunar lander in an exclusive interview with Flight
-
News
Harmony to expand space station research
The successful attachment of the European-built Harmony Node 2 module to the port side of the International Space Station's Node 1, called Unity, brings...
-
News
Harmony ready for action
The European-built International Space Station module Node 2, which is called Harmony, sits in the payload bay of NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery on flight...
-
News
EU space research sees four-month delay behind aeronautics
Despite the fact that the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme's (FP7) aeronautical studies started in January, FP7-funded space research is not...
-
News
DLR funded Darmstadt architects think big for space tourism
This image comes from the imagination of a group of German Aerospace Centre-funded architects from the Technical University of Darmstadt, who had a blue...
-
News
UK, NASA space co-operation report due in November
Ideas for potential UK-US lunar science and exploration co-operation will be made public in November. The 14-person British National Space Centre (BNSC)...
-
News
EU to fund hypersonic civil transport research
The European Union is to fund a second phase of European Space Agency-led studies into a hypersonic civil transport capable of flying from Brussels to Sydney...
-
News
UK flying wing project to adopt canards
A scale-model flying wing using a canard foreplane to improve take-off performance could be flight tested by next June if students at the UK's Salford...