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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)[reply]
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)[reply]
Additionally, should the title of this article be capitalized as Commercial Orbital Transportation Services? --NeuronExMachina 22:11, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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!)
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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:
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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.
SpX-1 (first SpaceX CRS mission)
SpX-2
SpX-3
SpX-4
Orb-1 (first Orbital Sciences CRS mission)
Orb-2
--Craigboy (talk) 00:31, 19 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]
I think it is definitely time for the CRS section to become its own article. Wingtipvortex (talk) 02:23, 5 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Unless I'm reading the above conversation incorrectly, it seems that there is consensus that the COTS and CRS are separate programs; COTS is still running; CRS is underway, with first contracted delivery scheduled for this fall; two articles are justified: one for COTS and one for CRS. The remaining issues, it seems to me, are about details within each of those articles. I support this emergent consensus. N2e (talk) 20:19, 31 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]
http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/SP-2014-617.pdf --Craigboy (talk) 08:41, 4 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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