Talk:Commercial Orbital Transportation Services

message: I suspect that the COTS acronym is also an allusion by NASA to Commercial off-the-shelf, but does anybody have anything which actually confirms this is intentional? --NeuronExMachina 22:10, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I doubt it. Sometimes an acronym is just an acronym. Belchja 22:18, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

text: Good question! And the answer is, "Yes." If a user searches for "COTS", we hope they find the COTS page, which already exists as a disambiguation page listing these two articles, and several other meanings. I suppose it is possible that a user might reach the "Commercial Orbital Transportation Services" page by some other means than a wikipedia search. Mentioning the confusion between these two meanings somewhere in the article might be appropriate. Alternately, using:  right at the top might be OK too. (sdsds - talk) 04:02, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Acronym

message: Abouilyass gives proofs that this comment is totally wrong so keeping it might make the reader confused  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.6.228.77 (talk) 21:07, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: re-read AbouIlyass

message: Recently quite a bit of action has occurred in this area.  NASA issued default notices to a contract winner,  The defaulter's management team has quit,
the defaulter has filed 2 separate protests,  and NASA has issued a round of new proposals,  it would be nice if wikipedia would allow
these actions to be linked to, as it would provide useful context to anyone interested.
There is some history and information regarding the termination of the Rocketplane Kistler COTS SAA in some of the related wiki pages:
* Rocketplane Limited, Inc.
* K-1 launch vehicle
* Commercial Orbital Transportation Services
Sorry, I don't have any interest in recreating the information here in a discussion of yet another COTS thread. --98.196.103.197 (talk) 05:51, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Links

message: What Wikipedia article would best discuss the relationship between Commercial Orbital Transportation Services and NASA's Project Constellation? N2e (talk) 17:38, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Relationship between COTS and Project Constellation

message: Hi there,
I don't understand that story of "rounds" that can be found in the article - I've read a lot on the COTS program and I've never seen that word anywhere else. Can someone explain me what they are ?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.91.30.83 (talk) 20:13, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Rounds ?

message: Seeing as right now there isn't really anywhere to put this information so I'll just leave it here. Info is from FPWG released on March 3rd. All listed missions are scheduled to be berthed to Harmony nadir and most are expected to remain there for 30 days. All the dates listed will probably slip. List is probably very preliminary because there's some scheduling conflicts present.
===SpaceX===
SpX-1 (first SpaceX CRS mission)
:Launch date: 2012-08-18
:Internal Cargo: 1268 kg, specific payloads are unknown
:External Cargo: None
SpX-2
:Launch date: 2012-12-15
:Internal Cargo: 1268 kg, specific payloads are unknown
:External Cargo: HRSGF
SpX-3
:Launch date: 2013-07-18
:Internal Cargo: Unknown
:External Cargo: High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) payload, Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS), Nitrous Oxide Fuel Blend (NOFBX) experiment (source)
SpX-4
:Launch date: 2013-10-07
:Internal Cargo: Unknown
:External Cargo: Unknown
===Orbital Sciences===
Orb-1 (first Orbital Sciences CRS mission)
:Launch date: 2012-12-14
:Internal Cargo: Unknown
Orb-2
:Launch date: 2013-04-08
:Internal Cargo: Unknown
--Craigboy (talk) 00:31, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  CRS Missions 

message: Orb-1 (first Orbital Sciences CRS mission)
:Launch date: 2012-12-14
:Internal Cargo: Unknown
Orb-2
:Launch date: 2013-04-08
:Internal Cargo: Unknown
--Craigboy (talk) 00:31, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Orbital Sciences

message: The lede's second paragraph begins, "COTS must be distinguished from the related Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) program."  However, the CRS article redirects here. --cregil (talk) 14:33, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: COTS has got the Orbital test flights and then finishes.  The CRS flights start this year and go on for many years.  IMHO The Commercial Resupply Services page will soon need to become a full page.  The COTS page will become a history page.  Andrew Swallow (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 15:07, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  COTS verses CRS 

message: There is a good overview of the Orbital Sciences COTS contract, milestones, and payment by NASA for 28 of the 29 total milestones completed to date, in the prelaunch briefing for the Cygnus 1 demo mission, scheduled to be launched on 27 Sep 2013, about ten hours from now.  A potential source for article improvement.  N2e (talk) 04:29, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orbital overall contract performance -- overview 

message: http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/SP-2014-617.pdf
--Craigboy (talk) 08:41, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Info 

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