by David Todd | Sep 5, 2014 | History, On a Lighter Note, Satellites
While NATO used DigitalGlobe’s commercially available high-resolution satellite imagery to prove that Russian columns of armoured vehicles and motorised artillery had entered Ukraine (since backed up by French satellite observations), Russian diplomats have...
by David Todd | Aug 24, 2014 | History, Seradata News, Technology
It is sad to report that the former Royal Navy Rothesay-class frigate, HMS Plymouth, which used Sea Cat missiles to fight off low level air attacks during the Falklands War of 1982 (she was set on fire after four non-exploding bombs hit her just outside of San Carlos...
by David Todd | Aug 23, 2014 | Apollo, History, On a Lighter Note, Seradata News, SpaceX
While the urban legend joke about the moonwalking Neil Armstrong congratulating his childhood next door neighbour Mr. Gorsky under his breath on the Moon is untrue (the apocryphal story is too rude to print here but here is a link 🙂 ), and while the Apollo 11...
by David Todd | Aug 8, 2014 | History, Technology
While posterity might put most of the blame for the University tuition fees fiasco – further indebtedness of graduates in conjunction with more expected debt defaults – at the recently departed Science and Universities Minister, David Willetts’...
by David Todd | Jul 25, 2014 | History, NASA
Noted space expert and author, Frederick Ordway III has passed away on 1 July 2014 at the age of 87. Having gained an interest in spaceflight from an early age, Ordway graduated from Harvard in 1949 with a bachelor of science, and later attended the Sorbonne in...
by David Todd | Jul 18, 2014 | History, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
A Malaysian Airlines civil passenger-carrying Boeing 777 aircraft (flight MH17) with 298 passengers and crew aboard has crashed and been totally destroyed on 17 July 2014 in the disputed region of East Ukraine after allegedly being shot down at high altitude by a...
