From success to success Eads Launch Vehicles
Eads Launch Vehicles spans all technologies needed to produce launch vehicles, developed through its lead role on all French ballistic missile programmers. The company has also played a critical role since the beginning of the Ariane programmed, which was launched in the 1970s. Technical expertise developed for ballistic missiles helped ensure the credibility and success of the Ariane programmed, which was largely initiated by France.
In 1973, eleven countries grouped within the European Space Agency (ESA) opted for European independence in space by approving Ariane 1. France provided 63% of the total funding.
The Launcher Ariane 5
The launch of Ariane marked the qualification of this new-generation heavy launcher, paving the way for its successful commercial career. It was also a major milestone for the European space industry. The new launcher was developed to keep pace with trends in the commercial launch market, especially larger and heavier satellites. The baseline version of the launcher is capable of boosting 6.9 tones into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) for a single satellite launch, or 5.9 tones on a dual launch (two satellites at once). It can also carry 18 tones into low Earth orbit (LEO). Right from the outset of the programmed, engineers designed in the flexibility needed to integrate evolving launch requirements, especially
“Apple Newton” will fly into space
A fragment of wood would with a NASA astronaut Piers Sellers of British origin, which will fly into orbit aboard the shuttle Atlantis on May 14.
Space Hotels : Dream & Reality
After the early successes in the space, it is not a dream but reality for humane race to build space cities -where people can reside with all the minimum facilities to survive in the outer space like earth. This evident reality has driven human being to think in past for building space [...]
Journey into space with the Shuttle Endeavor
Mission accomplished for the Space Shuttle Endeavor
The seven members of the crew of the shuttle Endeavor will put their feet on
the ground March 26, after 15 days in the International Space Station (ISS). A
400 km from the earth, they have installed two new modules on the station: the
Japanese laboratory “Kibo” (Hope) and the Canadian robot [...]
Beauty Space pictures
Beauty Space. Astronaut Tim Kopra e worked hard to secure the Japanese
laboratory Kibo to the International Space Station.
This photo shows the ring of Saturn and its atmosphere, which changes the
color of the planet
This image created from data collected by Chandra shows a portion of the
circular supernova known as RCW 86.
San Andreas Fault:
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Information on SpaceShipTwo
Leonard David has an article on the progress of SpaceShipTwo. Here are some things to note:
Whitehorn said more than 100 test flights are scheduled to give spaceliner operations a good shakeout. He estimated the first commercial flights will occur by the end of 2009 and possibly sooner if the planned trial [...]
Video of SpaceShipTwo Unveiling
Michael Belfiore has a video of the unveiling of SpaceShipTwo last month. He also live blogged the event if you haven’t seen it yet.
Virgin Galactic Considering Australia
Sir Richard Branson, CEO of the Virgin Group, and founder of Virgin Galactic, has his sights on Australia. While speaking to a ground of university students yesterday, Branson said that Australia “was on his radar” for building a launch site for his private space flights. The flights are expected to cost $200,000 and the ships [...]
XCOR Announces Suborbital Lynx
XCOR Aerospace announced today the development of a suborbital vehicle called the Lynx. It is a two seat craft that will blast off from a runway to 61km where passengers will experience 4.5 minutes of weightlessness and land on a runway. XCOR expects the craft to take off in 2010.
[update] The Wall Street Journal is [...]
Private Flights to the Moon in 2020s
Pete Wooden, director of the NASA Ames Research station in California, while speaking in London yesterday said NASA should get people back to the Moon by 2020. But he also said “I think (private interests ) are going to beat us to the lunar surface.” Adding to that he said, “It’s NASA’s unstated policy that [...]
Space Aventures Buys Zero-G
Virginia based Space Adventures has purchased, for an undisclosed price, Zero-G. Space Adventures is famous for sending tourists to the ISS on Russian rockets. Zero-G is the commercial equivalent of NASA’s “vomit comet” that allows people to experience simulated weightlessness aboard a parabolic jet. Dr. Peter Diamandis will remain as CEO of Zero-G and become [...]
Orion Propulsion to Build Sundancer ACS for Bigelow Aerospace
Orion Propulsion, Inc. of Madison, AL, is pleased to announce our selection by Bigelow Aerospace to provide the forward attitude control system (ACS) for the Sundancer, the world’s first commercial human space habitat.
Broadway Media Releases Space Cruise News to Follow the Events Unfolding in the Race to Sub-Orbital Space and Space Tourism
March 11, 2008 — In today’s world of constant media frenzy, it’s often difficult to separate credibility from clutter. To remedy the problem, Broadway Media has launched SpaceCruiseNews.com, a new Space news
Space Tourism the Next Step in Human Evolution?
Brent Rose thinks Virgin Galactic will finally make space a “primary conduit to human evolution” by taking anyone willing to pay.
