My Space BlogBy Anthony Matthews – with an emphasis on Small Launch Vehicles |
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From Flight International:
NASA’s nascent commercial orbital transport system (COTS) is expected to go live late next year under a $3.5 billion programme. The programme’s aim is to provide more than half of the cargo needed to run the International Space Station in the post-Space Shuttle era.
There are several people who have done substantive summaries of what happened in space and space launch in 2008.
NewSpace in 2008: Ups and downs in entrepreneurial spaceflight An amazingly substantial summary from Clark S. Lindsey of the NewSpace blog.
Leonard David has written this post: Review of Commercial Spaceflight Uncertain, but Promising.
An interesting summary also written for Flight International: Flight Global