by David Todd | Feb 20, 2013 | History, Military space, Seradata News, Technology
On 13 February 2013, the Raytheon Company announced that its Standard Missile SM-3 Block 1A was fired from the USS Lake Erie and successfully destroyed a medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) target using tracking data from two Space Tracking and Surveillance...
by David Todd | Feb 12, 2013 | Apollo, History, Seradata News
Flightglobal’s Hyperbola column is sad to report that veteran BBC spaceflight correspondent Reg Turnill has died at the age of 97 on 12 February 2013. Recruited initially from the Press Association to cover industrial news, Turnill became the BBC air...
by David Todd | Feb 12, 2013 | History, Seradata News, Technology
South Korean seismographic readings have indicated that North Korea has conducted its third nuclear weapons test at 0257 GMT on 12 February in the North Western region of the country. The underground test of a fission class weapon is estimated to have had an...
by David Todd | Feb 11, 2013 | History
For those of us who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s some good news was revealed by Craig Hoyle on Flightglobal’s Dew Line blog. The Thunderbirds science fiction TV series is to return! F-A-B! The series and those other puppet and live action...
by David Todd | Feb 8, 2013 | History, Science
While the disclosure by the first taikonaut (Chinese astronaut) Yang Liwei that he had eaten dog while on China’s first manned orbital spaceflight mission Shenzhou 5 in 2003, made some dog lovers in the West wince, many in the...
by David Todd | Feb 4, 2013 | History, On a Lighter Note
While a few of our readers have gleefully pointed out the fistful of spelling errors, grammatical mistakes and typographic faults that sometimes appear in our (well mainly this writer’s) Hyperbola space blog stories, one who may now be turning in his grave will...
