Italian space hardware achievement in general are extensive (not to mention their key role in the OSC Antares LV for COTS II)
Quote from: john smith 19 on 01/28/2012 12:14 pmItalian space hardware achievement in general are extensive (not to mention their key role in the OSC Antares LV for COTS II)I humbly beg to make two slight corrections:There is no major Italian industry involvement with the Antares LV: TAS-I (Torino) is, of course, MAJORLY involved in the Cygnus Spacecraft (that will be launched by the Antares LV)...There is no "COTS II" - you may be thinking of the CRS ("Commercial Resupply Service") contract (COTS was a "Space Act Agreement" or "SSA", not a contract like CRS.)Having said that, one TAS-I built Cygnus PCM is involved in the COTS Demo Flight scheduled for sometime this fall.
Under an hour to go and all webcast pages pointing to this horrid little window on the ESA site. http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Vega/SEM8QAWX7YG_0.htmlAnyone seen anything better?
T-20 and counting(Chris you should get a mac, then you can do screen cap of part of the screen )
Webcast starting. Now have a video box. Someone try and get a VLC out of it, if poss.