by David Todd | Feb 4, 2013 | Iran
While Iran announced, to great fanfare, that it had launched its first monkey into suborbital space and recovered him safely, it then made a great public relations mistake in releasing “before” and “after” pictures of the said Rhesus...
by David Todd | Jan 29, 2013 | History, Iran, Seradata News
Iran’s English language television service Press TV has released footage of the successful launch of a small monkey aboard a Kavoshgar launch vehicle. The Pishgam (Pioneer) capsule was recovered intact with the monkey still alive after its suborbital...
by David Todd | Dec 3, 2012 | Iran, Seradata News
Having already had a suspected failure earlier in the year, there is increasing evidence that Iran had a second launch failure of one of its Safir launch vehicles during an orbital attempt on or shortly after 22 September. The initial evidence...
by David Todd | May 10, 2012 | China, Iran, Satellites, Technology
The UK Government has just reversed a decision on which type of F-35 fighter aircraft it wants for its new Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers which are currently under construction. Fearful of any costly development hitches over new technology electromagnetic...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 20, 2010 | Iran, Seradata News
In the English language NDTV news channel report above the head of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) K. Radhakrishnan says he expects his government to approve a seven-year human spaceflight programme by mid-June. NDTV is an Indian 24-hour news...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 17, 2010 | Iran
Russia Today is reporting that photos of the Moon taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter clearly show Lunokhod-2 the rover that landed on the celestial body in 1973 as part of the Soviet space programme. Good to know the Soviet space programme...
