by David Todd | Aug 6, 2013 | commercial launch services, exploration, NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
NASA has announced that it has selected a United Launch Alliance (ULA)-operated Atlas V 411 launch vehicle to launch its Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS REx) asteroid sample-return mission. The mission is...
by David Todd | Aug 5, 2013 | exploration, NASA, Orion, Seradata News, SLS
While NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) heavy lift rocket is being designed to help its astronauts to one day reach the planets and passing asteroids, it remains under fire. Critics in the US House of Representatives and elsewhere note that it is sucking NASA...
by Dan Thisdell | Jul 11, 2013 | ESA, exploration, Science, Seradata News, Technology
The European Space Agency’s next big science mission – an attempt to unlock the secrets of the so-called “dark matter” invisible to normal telescopes but and its sister mystery, “dark energy”, which may hold the key to the...
by David Todd | Jul 3, 2013 | ESA, exploration, Seradata News
While NASA gained plaudits for its most excellent and innovative sky crane landing technique that successfully dropped its Mars Curiosity Rover onto the planet Mars, we do note that since choosing that mission, NASA appears to have become more risk averse, and, dare...
by David Todd | Jul 1, 2013 | exploration, Seradata News
While spaceflight’s previous connection with the online paymnet firm Paypal was that SpaceX CEO and self-taught rocket scientist, Elon Musk.made most of his fortune (since invested in rockets and electric cars) via his interest in the firm, now it...
by David Todd | Jun 19, 2013 | Apollo, exploration, History
Legendary Apollo 11 astronaut who flew with Neil Armstrong to walk on the surface of the Moon in July 1969, made an almost equally as important visit when he joined the team at Flightglobal’s chalet at the Paris Air Show. While Space is usually a tad subdued at...
