by David Todd | Mar 11, 2013 | History, Science
The mystery change in the orbital parameters of a small Russian satellite have now have been explained: it was apparently caused by a debris strike and the debris came from a Chinese anti-satelltie missile test. On 4 February, the...
by David Todd | Mar 8, 2013 | History
Stung by tough new sanctions just imposed by the United Nations over its fission-class nuclear weapons programme, and upset over the support these sanctions have had from its neighbour and recent ally China, North Korea has now threatened that...
by David Todd | Mar 8, 2013 | History, Seradata News
Venezuela’s charismatic left-wing President Hugo Chavez has died from cancer at the age of 58. While his world reputation was mixed, given the company of dictators he kept and due to his apparent distaste of free speech, Hugo...
by David Todd | Mar 7, 2013 | History, On a Lighter Note
While a certain major European satellite services company was recently keen to crow about their newly acquired award of a long term defence communications contract, it provided little information about the contract’s terms and conditions in its news...
by David Todd | Feb 26, 2013 | Apollo, History
While the late first man on the Moon, Neil Armstrong would probably not approve, by act of Congress, he has had his name replace aeronautical engineeer, Hugh Dryden, on the name plate of the Dryden Flight Research Center in...
by David Todd | Feb 22, 2013 | commercial launch services, History
NASA investigatators investigating the Taurus XL launch failure carrying its Glory environmental monitoring mission disclosed that the fairing nose cone did not separate due to its rail not breaking as planned. However, they could not work...
