by David Todd | Nov 27, 2015 | exploration, Science, Technology
Planetary Resources, the asteroid mining company, has, in a news release, applauded the US Senate and President Obama for allowing the U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act (H.R. 2262) to go into law. While the International Outer Space Treaty officially...
by David Todd | Sep 29, 2015 | ESA, exploration, Science
Mars has a dry cold climate with very low atmospheric pressure, conditions which would normally preclude liquid water from existing. However, the appearance of downward pointing streaks hundreds of metres long which appeared to grow and wane with the time of year, led...
by David Todd | Aug 31, 2015 | Science
While the UK’s meteorological office tries hard, its medium term forecasts have over the past few years, become the butt of humour, over their inaccuracy. For example, when they forecast droughts, including the infamous barbeque summer prediction of 2009,...
by David Todd | Aug 27, 2015 | On a Lighter Note, Science, Seradata News
Long-range missions to the planets are likely to grow some of their own food. This is not only to provide vitamins, fibre and nutrition while saving on consumables, but also to provide protection against the effects of space radiation. As well as being a carcinogenic...
by David Todd | Jul 29, 2015 | Satellites, Science, Seradata News
The UK Space Agency is funding a project between Spire UK and Singapore’s Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) to develop and test a novel product that will allow fishing authorities and coastal guards to easily detect and track illegal fishing. The initial project...
by David Todd | Jul 23, 2015 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
While the organisation witnessed the launch of its last Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) weather satellite, MSG-4, (to be called Meteosat 11)on an Ariane 5 ECA in July, it was also planning the launches of its third generation 3-axis stabilised spacecraft. ...
