by David Todd | Nov 3, 2015 | commercial launch services, ESA, Seradata News, Technology
The transatlantic aerospace, shipbuilding and defence conglomerate, BAE Systems, has agreed to purchase a 20% shareholding in Reaction Engines Limited for £20.6 million. Following on from work on the HOTOL launch vehicle at British Aerospace and the RB545...
by David Todd | Oct 28, 2015 | Apollo, ESA, exploration, NASA, Orion, Seradata News, SLS
While the recent film “The Martian”, starring Matt Damon, whetted the appetite of the general public for long-range human exploration, in truth, any mission to Mars is at least 20 years away. Similarly, while NASA has recently revealed its initial “Journey to Mars”...
by David Todd | Oct 21, 2015 | ESA, India, JAXA, NASA
The city of Jerusalem played host city to the International Astronautical Congress 2015 (IAC 2015). Due to concerns about security, attendance was about 30% down on usual years, although with over 2,000 participants attending from 58 different countries the...
by David Todd | Sep 29, 2015 | ESA, exploration, Science
Mars has a dry cold climate with very low atmospheric pressure, conditions which would normally preclude liquid water from existing. However, the appearance of downward pointing streaks hundreds of metres long which appeared to grow and wane with the time of year, led...
by David Todd | Sep 17, 2015 | ESA, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, Soyuz
Two satellites bound for the Galileo navigation satellite constellation owned by ESA and the EU were successfully launched on 11 September 2015 by a Soyuz ST-B (Fregat MT) launch vehicle. The launch took place from the Sinnamary launch site near Kourou in French...
by David Todd | Sep 17, 2015 | ESA, International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Soyuz
The manned spacecraft, Soyuz TMA-016M, undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) at 2139 GMT on 11 September 2015, to return three crew to Earth. After its re-entry the descent capsule of the Soyuz TMA-016M touched down at 0051 GMT on 12 September near...
