by David Todd | Dec 9, 2014 | History, Science
While Elon Musk warned of spam-destroying robots might decide to kill off the source of spam: human beings…probably in Nigeria first 🙂 …now honoured physicist Professor Stephen Hawking has made a similar warning about Artificial Intelligence (AI)....
by David Todd | Dec 4, 2014 | exploration, JAXA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
At 0422 GMT on 3 December 2014, a Japanese H2A launch vehicle successfully lifted off from the Tanegashima launch site in Japan carrying the Hayabusa-2 spacecraft which is planned to rendezvous with an asteroid (1999 JU3) in 2018. As part of the mission, Hayabusa-2...
by David Todd | Nov 12, 2014 | NASA, Science
It may be all over for the STEREO-Behind solar monitoring spacecraft mission after it fell into a suspected spin following a double failure of its attitude control system. As it plied its way on the far side of the Sun the spacecraft was in the middle of an operation...
by David Todd | Oct 21, 2014 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, Satellites, Science, Spaceport, Technology
Too much to see, and too little time to see it is the usual complaint about IAC, especially with respect to the various parallel strands of technical sessions. Trying to get the timing right to switch between sessions for individual lectures was virtually impossible...
by David Todd | Oct 21, 2014 | ESA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
The satellite maker, Airbus Defence and Space (Airbus DS) has been awarded a formal contract to design and build six second generation Meteorological Operational (MetOp-SG) satellites. The contract is worth €1.3 billion. The forerunner of Airbus DS, Astrium, had...
by David Todd | Oct 21, 2014 | Military space, Satellites, Science, Seradata News, Technology
The US Air Force successfully recovered the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) unmanned mini-shuttle after it successfully re-entered the atmosphere and landed at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, at 1624 GMT on 17 October 2014. Details of the 674-day...
