Does anyone know if Boeing has abandoned their Delta III development? The web site http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/delta/flash.html now only lists...

I haven't seen anything posted on this -- has a flight readiness firing been scheduled for the Heavy before it launches? -- Reed

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=15755 So. What would be involved in "Man-Rathing" it? Looks like Earth Orbit Rendezvous is back to stay,...

Boeing has an extensive site devoted to Delta IV-Heavy. See especially the "Growth Options" pdf - imagine strapping together SEVEN of the Delta IV first...

OK, this caught my attention a couple years ago, and then again yesterday. Check out: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4116119.stm Nice shot of the...

I noticed on Boeing's viewgraph of future Delta IV upgrades a mention of "cross-feed", which I took to mean propellant transfer between common core boosters in...

It's often suggested that a catapult on the moon could fire material from the surface to L1. From there it would be sorted and grouped, and then sent off in...

Hi What is the difference between Delta 4 and Titan III-type launch vehicles? IL of FI

I'm a layman discovering the intricacies of space flight. I understand that the equations for DeltaV denote it as a sole function of mass ratio and engine...

Has anyone here ever tried building a small liquid rocket engine? Preferably from this website: http://www.risacher.org/rocket/ I am building one from that...

As a software/system engineer, I'm very curious about the software (and hardware) organization in the MER's control system. Is there any link to detailed...

Which is better in determining true blue ie. a spectrogram or video of a spectrogram? -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News...

http://news.discovery.com/space/robot-satellite-repair-nasa.html

I have recently found out that a hamster was levitated by applying a strong magnetic field of 16 Teslas using a superconducting electromagnet. This is...

The files now at http://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/titanraw/index.htm are 176-by-768 JPGs. Where the same terrain is in five or 10 frames, it seems conceivable...

Hi! I have been following space related stuff since the 60's. It seems to me to look like russian spacelaunch vehicles accelerate faster than the big american...

I looked on the web curious about thrust augmentation concepts for jet engines and found a 1952? NACA report that detailed an experiment where water was...

Hi, I will use a direct approch for solving a trajectory optimization problem(optimal control). I find some approches for this , I have some queations, If it...

Liquid propellant rocket engines have the engine on a gimbals frame so servo motors can move the exhaust a few degrees in the X and Y axis so the rocket can be...

From a story in World Science: Link: http://www.world-science.net/othernews/040831_newplanetsfrm.htm "Astronomers this morning announced the discovery of a...