I'm on vacation as of 20 December but check back with Hyperbola on a daily basis as there will be blog postings popping up on autopilot during the course of this holiday season
But in the mean time wonder over what will happen with NASA's planned Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) demonstration programme's phase two International Space Station resupply contract in 2008 when it could be law that the agency has to first sort out its ongoing dispute with Rocketplane Kistler before giving away its cash again
However COTS hopeful Spacehab has announced the successful mid-air recovery capture test for its ARCTUS transportation system
Space.com ponders NASA's water or land conundrum for its Orion crew module
Over at NASASpaceflight it's the Space Shuttle programme's fun and games with its external tank that been the focus of attention and Aviation Week is no less concerned
Russia's famous S P Korolev Rocket and Space corporation Energia provides photos of its preparations for the next Progress cargo vehicle launch
The European Space Agency is also publicising its work towards the launch of its first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV, named Jules Verne, from Kourou, French Guiana
Then on the slightly less serious side it seems reality television and space tourism are merging
And finally, it wouldn't be a Hyperbola blog post without some links care of Hobbyspace.com
on December 20, 2007 5:08 PM | Reply
in http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2007/12/19/220436/payload-short-fall-triggers-nasa-lunar-lander-redesign.html
"after the trans-lunar injection burn, carried out by the lander, the CEV power supply increases to 1.5kW"
The LSAM lander doesn't carry out the TLI, but the EDS stage. Or did I misunderstand what is meant here?
on December 20, 2007 9:15 PM | Reply
Ah! You spotted the deliberate Christmas mistake!
Why on Earth did I write that? Of course its the Earth departure stage for TLI. Landers on the brain.
Thanks for keeping me on my toes!
Hope you enjoyed all the, correct, technical data in that story.
on December 21, 2007 3:33 PM | Reply
Yeah, I enjoyed the story. :) It's interesting to look at the development process. So many things are still in flux.