by David Todd | Jan 5, 2016 | History
Having bought the Vizada communications distributor from Apax France, the French arm of the private equity investor, in 2011, for US$960 million, in December, Airbus Defence and Space, announced that it was selling back the firm to Apax. The fim, now known as the...
by David Todd | Jan 5, 2016 | History, Launches
Analysis of the Seradata SpaceTrak launch and satellite database shows that there were 86 orbital launches last year (2015), making it the second highest total since the turn of the century (the 21st century launch peak was in 2014 with 92 orbital attempts). The...
by David Todd | Dec 21, 2015 | History
Before Star Wars arrived, science fiction film fans had to make do with interesting but not really action-packed adventures from the 1950s such as When Worlds Collide (1951), This Island Earth (1955), The Forbidden Planet (1956), the colourful TV series fun of Star...
by David Todd | Dec 9, 2015 | China, Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, ESA, History, India, Launches, Military space, NASA, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News, SLS, Space Insurance, Space tourism, Spaceport, Technology, Virgin Galactic
The World Launcher Review has technical descriptions and commentaries covering every major orbital launch vehicle flying and in development, including their launch sites and their commercial launch providers. It also has a market analysis and a review of those factors...
by David Todd | Nov 16, 2015 | History, On a Sadder Note, Seradata News
Those that perpetrated and planned this year’s murderous terrorist attacks in Paris or the airliner bombing in Egypt, should be fearful. For those that kill and injure innocent people in the name of God (Allah) will, under the terms of their own religious...
by David Todd | Nov 9, 2015 | History, Satellites
The US electronics firm, Honeywell, in a bid to move further into the space industry, has moved to buy the Canadian spacecraft and component manufacturer, COM DEV. An agreement has been signed between the two firms for the sale to go ahead. The aggregate purchase...
