by David Todd | Aug 28, 2019 | ESA, International Space Station, JAXA, NASA, Seradata News
The “first ever space crime” may have been committed by astronaut Anne McClean, who is accused of using the International Space Station’s (ISS) Wi-Fi to access illegally the bank account of her estranged female spouse Summer Worden. However, in this...
by David Todd | Aug 22, 2019 | Apollo, China, ESA, exploration, India, JAXA, NASA, Russia, Seradata News
Every August Seradata does its usual analysis of the “runners and riders” in “The Great Space Race” between the major space nations. Here we judge each space programme on the basis of technological ability, financial and other resources, national will and, most...
by David Todd | Aug 14, 2019 | ESA, exploration, Russia, Satellites, Science
The complicated multi-parachute landing system for the European Space Agency’s ExoMars landing mission in 2020 is under scrutiny after it failed a second test. The test on 5 August, of the large 35 m diameter subsonic main parachute was deemed a failure. It...
by Matt Wilson | Aug 7, 2019 | commercial launch services, ESA, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
At 1930 GMT, on 6 August 2019, an Arianespace Ariane 5 heavy-lift rocket lifted-off from Kourou, French Guiana, carrying two communications satellites to a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) drop-off point. This marks the third Ariane 5 launch of the year and it...
by David Todd | Jul 22, 2019 | ESA, Launches, NASA, Russia, Seradata News
It might have been by design or not, but the launch of three astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) found itself becoming part of the celebrations of the Apollo 11 landings 50 years ago. With its “unlucky number” 13 (space watchers will...
by David Todd | Jul 15, 2019 | ESA, Satellites, Seradata News
The much-vaunted European Galileo navigation satellite constellation financed by the European Union (EU) and devised by the European Space Agency (ESA), is supposed to offer equivalent reliability and accuracy to the US GPS system. So there was more than a little...
