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...
by David Todd | Mar 18, 2016 | ESA, History, Science
While the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon George Osborne MP gained not-so-friendly headlines by cutting benefits for the disabled while reducing capital gains tax for the rich in his budget, which in turn, caused a Ministerial resignation and his subsequent...
by David Todd | Mar 15, 2016 | ESA, exploration, Russia, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
The joint ESA/Roscosmos ExoMars mission to examine the amount and source of methane on Mars has been successfully delivered onto its interplanetary trajectory by a Proton M/Breeze M launch. The launch took place at 0931 GMT on 14 February and carried the main ExoMars...
