by David Todd | Sep 3, 2015 | ESA, International Space Station, Launches, NASA, Soyuz, space station
A Soyuz FG launch vehicle successfully launched the Soyuz TMA-018M spacecraft carrying three crew to the International Space Station at 0437 GMT on 2 September 2015. The launch was from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan. The crew carried aboard...
by David Todd | Jul 29, 2015 | China, ESA, exploration, History, JAXA, NASA, Russia
High Summer is the time of year when the Seradata space team does its annual analysis of the relative chances of each nation “winning the space race”. In this we act as a notional bookmaker offering notional odds that reflect each nation’s relative chances...
by David Todd | Jul 23, 2015 | ESA, exploration
Having beaten off its European rivals for the contract, the €350.8 million (US$389 million) construction contract for the European Space Agency ‘s JUICE mission to Jupiter has been finally awarded to Airbus Defence and Space. The mission will be sent to...
by David Todd | Jul 19, 2015 | ESA, History, Seradata News
After the reaction to a reported “sexist” speech made by Nobel-prize winning biochemistry scientist Sir Tim Hunt, 73, forced him to resign from his honorary Professorship post at University College London (UCL), a newly released...
by David Todd | Jul 17, 2015 | ESA, Launches, SpaceX, Technology
While the rhetoric at the third UK Space Conference held in Liverpool in July emphasised downstream space applications as the way to continued growth, there was an acceptance that there was also gap in Britain’s resurgent space portfolio: it does not have a...
by David Todd | Jul 17, 2015 | ESA, International Space Station, Science, Technology
It is a sign that the UK space industry remains in very good health that the third UK Space Conference had attendance up for the third time, this time to 1,100 delegates. As a further indication of the UK’s growing importance in space, the enlarged Conference...
