by David Todd | Jun 12, 2015 | Launches, On a Lighter Note, Space Insurance, Space tourism
There were a few amusements to be had at the Seradata Space Conference in London in June. Tim Fuller of Seradata raised a few ghoulish laughs when showing a launch event query during his excellent demonstration of SpaceTrak3 which had a “fatalities” field...
by David Todd | Jun 11, 2015 | On a Lighter Note
As someone who has a tendency to say the wrong thing at the wrong moment, it is always a joy for your correspondent to note others doing it. In between his good works, including his award scheme for young people and his wildlife work, former naval hero and Her Majesty...
by David Todd | May 8, 2015 | Military space, On a Lighter Note, Seradata News
It was in his seminal work “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” that the late comedy/science fiction writer, Douglas Adams, came up with the concept of an “Improbability Drive”. This drive, which allows some very strange and...
by David Todd | Apr 29, 2015 | On a Lighter Note
With the revival of Star Trek movie franchise, and with the imminent arrival of the new Star Wars film, space is once again a driver of popular culture and fashion – and not just for the young. As the Daily Mail notes that the very fit looking 77-year-old...
by David Todd | Apr 17, 2015 | On a Lighter Note, Seradata News, Technology
So keen are the boys at the US Air Force Research Laboratory on the UK firm Reaction Engines’ SABRE (Synthetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine) heat exchanger technology (this writer is a shareholder) that they are apparently willing to do anything to get their hands on...
by David Todd | Mar 20, 2015 | On a Lighter Note, Science, Seradata News
An eclipse of the Sun occurred on the morning of 20 March 2015 which was visible as a 100% total eclipse for those eclipse changers who braved the cold and the polar bears in Svalbard, west of Norway. There was even an 84% partial eclipse visible in Southern England,...
