Talk:Commercial Orbital Transportation Services

Acronym

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)

I doubt it. Sometimes an acronym is just an acronym. Belchja 22:18, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

i think it was a deliberate refernce to Commercial off the shelf, which is sad, because the two winners were not off the shelf, and will never be commercial. --71.63.26.246 (talk) 18:36, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Additionally, should the title of this article be capitalized as Commercial Orbital Transportation Services? --NeuronExMachina 22:11, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Should there be a "disambiguation" thing so that if someone searches for COTS they can find this instead of only Commercial off-the-shelf? (I hope this is the place to post this sort of question!)

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: {{otherusesof|COTS|COTS}} right at the top might be OK too. (sdsds - talk) 04:02, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Company proposals

I'm intending to format the list of companies and spacecraft as a table once a few more entries come in. ShimaKatase 08:21, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Any foreign bid ? Hektor 06:41, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

MDA, a Canadian firm with an expertise in space robotics, partnered with SpaceX Kavanagh 8 June 2006

re-read AbouIlyass

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)

Links

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)

Relationship between COTS and Project Constellation

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)

Rounds ?

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)