by David Todd | Apr 26, 2016 | ESA, Launches, Satellites, Science
Having been delayed by the weather and by the need to change out an inertial measurement unit on the rocket, at 2102 GMT on 25 April 2016 a Soyuz ST-A (Fregat M) finally launched from the Sinnamary launch site near Kourou in French Guiana. The main payload aboard was...
by David Todd | Apr 9, 2016 | commercial launch services, ESA, History, International Space Station, NASA, Seradata News, SpaceX
Following its 2043 GMT launch from Cape Canaveral on 9 April 2015, a two-stage Falcon 9FT-R rocket successfully placed the Dragon CRS-8 cargo spacecraft into orbit for NASA on its way to the International Space Station (ISS). Aboard the craft was a new Bigelow...
by David Todd | Apr 7, 2016 | ESA, History, Science
The Government of the United Kingdom, led by its Prime Minister David Cameron, came under furious criticism from the “Brexit” side for its planned mailshot attempt to convince the British public to vote to stay in the EU in the referendum in June and using...
by David Todd | Apr 6, 2016 | ESA, Launches, Russia
The head of Roscosmos, Igor Komarov, has formally stated that the agency has no telemetry information that anything went wrong with the Breeze-M (Briz-M) upper stage. This was after Brazilian observatory reports noting that fiery debris appeared to indicate that an...
by David Todd | Mar 31, 2016 | ESA, exploration, Science, Technology
Johann-Dietrich ‘Jan’ Woerner has been Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA) since 1 July 2015. After eight years heading German Aerospace Centre (DLR) and the German delegation at ESA, he succeeded Jean-Jacques Dordain in the leading ESA executive role....
by David Todd | Mar 24, 2016 | ESA, Science, Seradata News
A recent Channel 4 documentary called Heston’s Dinner in Space has recorded the work that the British three-Michelin star chef Heston Blumenthal has done with the European Space Agency in order to make food more appetising and to help it raise...
