by Matt Wilson | Jan 10, 2020 | Finance, History, Seradata News
The now fully “domesticated” American company Maxar Technologies inc. is to sell its legacy Canadian, business MDA (MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates, Ltd.). This is following an announcement made at the end of 2019. The intended recipients of the... 
by Matt Wilson | Sep 25, 2019 | History, International Space Station, Launches, NASA, Personal spaceflight, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News, space station
At 1357 GMT on 25 September, a Soyuz-FG rocket lifted off from Launch Site No. 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, carrying the Soyuz MS-15 crew mission to the International Space Station (ISS). This launch marked the end of some eras – and the beginning of... 
by David Todd | Sep 9, 2019 | History, Seradata News
African leaders paid tribute to Robert Mugabe, former President and liberator of the African nation of Zimbabwe who has died at the age of 95. But there were few real tears for him from his own people. For, while hailed as a liberator of the black majority from white... 
by David Todd | Sep 7, 2019 | ESA, History, Seradata News
The post of UK Minister of State for Universities and Science, with its cabinet attendee rank, is an attractive position for up-and-coming politicians, not least because it is also in charge of the “sexy” subject of space – now seen as increasingly important to the... by David Todd | Jul 25, 2019 | History, Military space, Science
While NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine appeared to have his own mini-version earlier in the month, the newly appointed UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has similarly been accused of having a “Night of the Long Knives” purge of his cabinet in a... 
by David Todd | Jul 17, 2019 | Apollo, History, NASA
For those of you who like to work their brains, here below is our Apollo 11 50th anniversary moon landing crossword. Some of you will have already seen this as we handed it out at our Seradata Space Conference last month. We awarded a prize to the first to complete...
