by David Todd | Mar 20, 2019 | History
To put an end to the disastrous uncertainty of the current Brexit impasse, a chagrin to the UK space industry and the nation’s other industries who would mainly rather the UK was not leaving the EU at all, the UK needs another referendum to decide on whether the...
by David Todd | Mar 19, 2019 | SpaceX, Technology, test
Jules Verne in his 19th century sci-fi books From Earth to the Moon and is sequel Around the Moon, had the designers of “Columbiad” super cannon wondering from which US state the cannon-launched shell-like spacecraft would be launched from. The finalists...
by David Todd | Mar 18, 2019 | Launches, Military space, Satellites, Seradata News
At 0026 GMT on 16 March 2019, In what would be one of the last flight of the Delta IV, a Delta IVM+ 5,4 launched the WGS 10 military communications satellite from the Cape Canaveral Air Station in Florida. The ULA operated flight went as planned and the spacecraft...
by David Todd | Mar 15, 2019 | Finance, Space Insurance
While the US$5.6 billion proposed take over JLT (Jardin Lloyd Thompson) by the US-based broker Marsh & McClennan is set to be completed this spring, its aerospace division is going elsewhere. To assuage EU regulatory concern over competition specifically about the...
by David Todd | Mar 15, 2019 | Launches, NASA, Russia, Soyuz
There was a sense of déjà vu for the crew of the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft as it was successfully launched by a Soyuz FG rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan, at 1914 GMT on 14 March. Or at least it was for two of the three crew. For Cosmonaut...
