by David Todd | Nov 25, 2013 | History, Science
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doLizp4PJmc[/youtube] The new blockbuster space jeopardy thriller Gravity (2013) has just been released and is now filling cinemas and movie theatres around the world. The film stars Sandra Bullock as Dr Ryan Stone on her...
by David Todd | Nov 15, 2013 | ESA, History, Satellites, Science, Space tourism, Technology
While the UK Space Agency basks in the plaudits and adulation received recently both from the UK Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee and from other independent commentators, it hopes to maintain the momentum as it publishes its latest plan for future...
by David Todd | Nov 12, 2013 | History, On a Lighter Note, Science
While Star Trek’s TV and film series had its USS Enterprise captained by a brave young chap called Captain James T. Kirk (the “T” stands for Tiberius), back on Earth, the US Navy just appointed a Captain James Kirk as captain for its latest warship...
by David Todd | Nov 11, 2013 | exploration, History, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
A series of orbit raising manoevres for India’s controversial new space probe Mangalyaan in which the spacecraft would be raised to higher and higher Earth orbits before finally being injected into a high-efficiency Hohman transfer orbit, has been temporarily...
by David Todd | Nov 7, 2013 | History, Science
The Science Journal Nature has published a paper by scientists who claim from their research that asteroid strikes on Earth are much more common than than thought. According to Peter Brown, a planetary scientist at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, noted...
by David Todd | Nov 5, 2013 | China, exploration, History
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched India’s first Mars probe, the Mangalyaan Mars Orbiter Mission, which was launched by a PSLV-XL from the Sriharikota launch site at 0908 GMT on 5 November 2013. There was a reported very slight...
