by David Todd | May 6, 2016 | History
The UK Science minister Jo Johnson has revealed that the National Environment Research Council (NERC) has gone against a public vote on the naming of its new arctic research ship Boaty McBoatface to call it the RRS Sir David Attenborough instead. The move was a clever...
by David Todd | Apr 9, 2016 | commercial launch services, ESA, History, International Space Station, NASA, Seradata News, SpaceX
Following its 2043 GMT launch from Cape Canaveral on 9 April 2015, a two-stage Falcon 9FT-R rocket successfully placed the Dragon CRS-8 cargo spacecraft into orbit for NASA on its way to the International Space Station (ISS). Aboard the craft was a new Bigelow...
by David Todd | Apr 7, 2016 | ESA, History, Science
The Government of the United Kingdom, led by its Prime Minister David Cameron, came under furious criticism from the “Brexit” side for its planned mailshot attempt to convince the British public to vote to stay in the EU in the referendum in June and using...
by David Todd | Mar 24, 2016 | History, Satellites
The Sky Sports channel of the subscription television (TV) broadcaster, BSkyB, which usually broadcasts to its viewers via the SES satellite constellation, has acquired exclusive British television rights to Formula One (Formula 1) motor racing in a six year deal from...
by David Todd | Mar 21, 2016 | History, International Space Station, Launches, Russia, Soyuz, space station
At 2126 GMT on 18 March 2015, a Soyuz-FG launch vehicle successfully lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan. Before the launch from Pad 1, Soyuz Commander and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka and...
by David Todd | Mar 18, 2016 | ESA, History, Science
While the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon George Osborne MP gained not-so-friendly headlines by cutting benefits for the disabled while reducing capital gains tax for the rich in his budget, which in turn, caused a Ministerial resignation and his subsequent...
