All articles by Rob Coppinger – Page 37
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SpaceX passes key design and safety reviews
Space Exploration Technologies' (SpaceX) Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon...
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Industry fears no-decision delay for Galileo
The European space industry fears for the future of the Galileo satellite...
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French Guiana cannot launch latest Soyuz
European launch provider Arianespace is only able to offer the Samara Space Center-built Soyuz...
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NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) to build and fly small cubesat-type satellite by 2009
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) intends to build and fly a very small cubesat-type...
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Spacedev to develop lunar telescope lander prototype
Space systems company Spacedev has been awarded a contract to develop a prototype lunar lander vehicle for the International...
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Moon mission exploration vehicle control panel revealed
This four-screen configuration is the latest Orion crew exploration vehicle command module display and controls console flight deck design from the designated...
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French Guiana Soyuz-ST launch to loft first of Globalstar's second-generation birds
The launch by mid-2009 of the first six 700kg (1,540lb) second-generation Globalstar satellites will be...
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NASA studies Ares I crew launch vehicle catastrophic failure scenarios
Catastrophic failure modes of NASA's proposed Ares I crew launch vehicle's ...
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NewsUK “should send humans into space” says exploration report
The UK should examine soon whether to engage in human spaceflight after 2010 with a detailed plan, according to the Space Exploration Working Group (SEWG)...
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NewsBritish astronaut: Government report makes astronaut corps recommendations
After half a century of an in-principle opposition to involvement in human spaceflight the UK government's British National Space Centre is set to recommend the evaluation of an astronaut programme
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NewsVirgin Galactic spaceship designer reveals changing ideas
Virgin Galactic's suborbital rocket glider SpaceShipTwo (SS2) could have a low wing and its carrier aircraft,...
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Environmental special: Quietly does it
Quietly does it ROB COPPINGER LONDON While aviation's carbon emissions have grabbed the headlines, European industry's efforts to cut noise pollution...
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Environmental special: Six-year project to validate technologies
Starting in April 2001, SILENCE(R) cost €111 million ($151 million), with 50% of the funding provided by the European Commission and the rest by industry....
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China developing WIGE aircraft
A wing-in-ground-effect aircraft is under development at Shanghai based-Tongji University, according to Chinese media. With a design payload of 4,000kg (8,800lb),...
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European satellite servicing competitors announce new customers and new spacecraft
The two competing on-orbit satellite servicing companies, UK based-Orbital Satellite Services ...
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PICTURE: Harvard University's insect-scale robot fly flies
A tiny mechanical entomopter using insect-like wing dynamics has achieved tethered flight following US Defense Advanced Research...
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Artifical muscle for bird and insect-like flying machines possible, say researchers
Electrically activated actuators that combine biological muscle tissue with nanoscale electronics could one day be used in tiny insect-like air vehicles....
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NewsPICTURE: First images of Spaceport America revealed
The first image of Spaceport America, the World's first dedicated spaceport, has been revealed following the selection of its architects
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SpaceX prepares Falcon 9 rocket first-stage tank for tests
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has hoisted its Falcon...
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UK begins research to speed CFD design
Funded by government and industry, university hardware resources could boost computational fluid dynamics process