Posted in Depot, ESA, NASA, Spacecraft, tagged ATV, docking, ESA, ISS on Monday 2008.03.31 | No Comments »
The first European Autonomous Transfer Vehicle is nearing the International Space Station as I write this. It’s demo day 2 and it will go to 250 meters distance. Docking will be a few days later.
ESA has a live blog here.
NASASpaceflight.com has a live thread here. Someone just posted a screen capture:
There’s video at NASA TVas well as ESA’s blog.
Hope all goes well. This is a bit of a competence test for ESA and the European space industry (well, those who are in this [...]
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ESA’s Architecture for Exploration Study (AES) is overviewed in Lunar Base Quarterly 1/2008 (EDIT: to be clear, the Quarterly was released in January):
Lots of Ariane 5, Angara and Soyuz launches with space docking, a space station in Earth-Lunar L1 and many new crewed and non-crewed craft and capabilities.
They had a red team / blue team [...]
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Posted in Depot, RLV:s, Spacecraft, tagged Arctus, COTS, ISS, Lockheed Martin, NASA, Progress, Spacecraft, Spacehab, SpaceX Dragon, ULA on Thursday 2007.12.20 | No Comments »
SpaceHab together with ULA (Lockheed Martin) is proposing a simple cargo capsule to ISS, launched on existing rockets like Atlas V. This seems good.
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