On 1/18/2011 5:14 PM, Jochem Huhmann wrote: I'm still wondering what kind of engines and what amount of fuel they want to squeeze into Dragon. The current...

"Engineers and managers at NASA are sure to change their new reference vehicle designs for the government’s next heavy-lift and human-spaceflight vehicles,...

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1101/12glory/ trucks can be tough rides:( since earlier sats were damaged by long distance trucking why arent they flown...

Said the navsat system was "stupid": http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hEitf6VBwlqoBdiAc6zVbYUCuXDg?docId=b20d18371eb1489d8830031301f09be3 Pat

SpaceX Status Report on Falcon 9/Dragon http://www.onorbit.com/node/2845 From above: While the maximum reliability is designed into our vehicles,...

"Intelsal thinks there is a good chance it will regain use of Galaxy 15, the wayward “Zombie Sat” that terrorized telecom satellite neighborhoods around the...

http://blogs.airspacemag.com/moon/files/2011/01/cost.jpg

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=32479

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/30/nasa_aliens_revelations/ Even if only bacteria were found on Mars that would be a shocking revelation since it would...

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/110110tank/ If I were the crew for this flight I'd be a little queasy about flying on this particular ET, as they...

Google Groups has always had major problems in limited areas, such as indexing one's previous posts. Between technical matters and a major, PC, CENSORSHIP...

"China is advancing its space capabilities by developing staged combustion, an engine technology that is likely to offer greater performance for the Long March...

NASA Ames has determined the Viking landers found organics on Mars. You know how? They found combusted organics in soil from Chile’s Atacama...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/08/AR2011010802422.html?hpid=topnews She used to the chairman of the United States House Science...

Four new cracks on the other side of the tank from the first ones: http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/101230cracks/ I note that the original and newly...

I can find stats for longest mission, but does anyone know the longest time the shuttle's been stacked? I guess the ET could be empty or full, as long as it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ih_KBru6Co

On Dec 15, 10:41*pm, "Jonathan" wrote: "Otis Willie PIO The American War Library" wrote in...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/03/germanyus-secret-spy-proj_n_803773.html "HIROS is neither a spy satellite, nor a secret project," Schuetz said. He...

All this ASAT chatter on the X37-B thread made me think of another scenario. State-sponsored terrorist threat to commercial satellite infrastructure. aka how...