by David Todd | Mar 24, 2016 | ESA, Science, Seradata News
A recent Channel 4 documentary called Heston’s Dinner in Space has recorded the work that the British three-Michelin star chef Heston Blumenthal has done with the European Space Agency in order to make food more appetising and to help it raise...
by David Todd | Mar 23, 2016 | Science, Technology
The Daily Telegraph and the BBC Horizon programme have reported on a scientific development that is regarded as break though new detection technology: a method detecting tiny fluctuations in gravity. British scientists of the Porton Down military science...
by David Todd | Mar 22, 2016 | exploration, Satellites, Science, Technology
The Emirates Mars mission orbiter HOPE will be sent on its voyage initially by a Japanese H-2A rocket flying from Tanegashima in Japan. The spacecraft was booked on a flight to take place in 2020. The mission is owned and operated by the United Arab Emirates Space...
by David Todd | Mar 18, 2016 | ESA, History, Science
While the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon George Osborne MP gained not-so-friendly headlines by cutting benefits for the disabled while reducing capital gains tax for the rich in his budget, which in turn, caused a Ministerial resignation and his subsequent...
by David Todd | Mar 15, 2016 | ESA, exploration, Russia, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
The joint ESA/Roscosmos ExoMars mission to examine the amount and source of methane on Mars has been successfully delivered onto its interplanetary trajectory by a Proton M/Breeze M launch. The launch took place at 0931 GMT on 14 February and carried the main ExoMars...
by David Todd | Mar 14, 2016 | Apollo, History, On a Lighter Note, On a Sadder Note, Science, Seradata News
Research has found that conspiracy theorists who believe that that the Apollo moon landings of the late 1960s and early 1970s were fakes are more likely to be “narcissists” than other individuals. The online research conducted by the University of Kent has...