by David Todd | Jan 14, 2014 | History
Flightglobal has sold the Ascend SpaceTrak business in a Management Buy-out to Seradata Ltd (www.seradata.com), a new company set up to provide the space industry with world-class data and analytical tools. The hosting of the Hyperbola space blog/space news service...
by David Todd | Jan 6, 2014 | commercial launch services, History, Satellites
According to the Seradata SpaceTrak database, there were 82 orbital launch attempts made in 2013. Of these, three were failures to orbit while two were classed as failures due to incorrect orbit placements. Notable first flights for new or radically modified launch...
by David Todd | Jan 3, 2014 | History, NASA
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter, the talented and famously curvaceous singer-songwriter and actress more usually known as Beyoncé, is in hot water with the space community after using part of the ground control commentary made during the fatal Challenger Space...
by David Todd | Jan 3, 2014 | commercial launch services, History, Satellites, Soyuz
There were four launches made over the Christmas period. At 1642 GMT on 20 December, a Chinese Long March 3B/E launch vehicle successfully launched the Tupac Katari communications spacecraft for teh Bolivian Space Agency from China’s Xichang launch site. This...
by David Todd | Dec 20, 2013 | History, Seradata News, SpaceX
At this time of year we at Hyperbola like to have a little fun at the expense of the great and the good…including SpaceX leader, Elon Musk. So here is our Christmas card to you all. Sorry Elon! There is, of course, a lot of fun to be had including parties,...
by David Todd | Nov 25, 2013 | History, On a Lighter Note
The BBC television science fiction adventure series Dr Who is 50 years old. With some breaks, the show has been running since November 1963 and was first broadcast the day that US President John F. Kennedy was shot dead. The adventures of a time lord has was...
