by David Todd | Sep 6, 2012 | exploration, NASA, Satellites, Science
The NASA spacecraft, Dawn, escaped the gravity of the asteroid Vesta at 0626 GMT on 5 September where it has spent the last year studying the asteroid and is now headed towards the largest object in the asteroid belt, Ceres, where it is expected to arrive in...
by David Todd | Sep 6, 2012 | exploration, NASA, Science
NASA has released a mosaic combining six images — two each of red, green and blue spectral filters — to create this natural color view of the large moon Titan orbiting the planet Saturn. The images were obtained with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle...
by David Todd | Aug 28, 2012 | Apollo, exploration, History, NASA, Orion, Seradata News
Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the Moon in July 1969, has passed away on 25 August, three weeks after his 82nd birthday. Armstrong had been recovering from medical procedures to alleviate his blocked coronary arteries, when complications led to his...
by David Todd | Aug 22, 2012 | Apollo, China, Constellation, exploration, JAXA, NASA, Seradata News, SLS, Technology
Two years ago, the space team at the Ascend consultancy (now part of Flightglobal) did an analysis on which nation was likely to be the first to return men to the moon. In the analysis notional odds were assigned to each which country as a measure of our estimation...
by David Todd | Aug 20, 2012 | exploration, Seradata News
While India’s space programme has previously been praised for its activities that genuinely help its people i.e. remote sensing satellite applications for agriculture, satellite telecommunications applications for rural education etc. aid-giving nations are...
by David Todd | May 15, 2012 | exploration, NASA
While ratings for the UK TV talent show The Voice continue to decline on BBC television, one of the judges, Will.i.am, still has fans in the space business it seems. For according to the UK-based tabloid newspaper The Sun, NASA has asked the Black Eyed Peas band...
