by David Todd | Sep 2, 2014 | Science, Soyuz
The Russian unmanned Foton M4 biology and technology mission has successfully landed in Kazakhstan at 0918 GMT on 1 September 2014 after its re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere. The Foton M4 spacecraft had been launched by a Soyuz 2-1A rocket on 18 July 2014 on a...
by David Todd | Aug 20, 2014 | China, commercial launch services, Satellites, Science
China has launched the Gaofen 2 Earth observation spacecraft aboard a Long March 4B launch vehicle flying from the Taiyuan launch site at 0315 GMT on 19 August 2014. The 780kg spacecraft which is reported to have an imaging resolution of 0.8m Panchromatic and 3.2m in...
by David Todd | Aug 7, 2014 | ESA, exploration, Science
After a 6.4 billion km passage lasting 10 years and involving velocity accelerating flybys of Earth and Mars, at 0800 GMT on 6 August 2014, European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission rendezvoused with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The Rosetta spacecraft will...
by David Todd | Jul 25, 2014 | Satellites, Science, Seradata News
NASA reports that two years ago, the Earth was nearly struck by a solar super storm that could have seriously disrupted power and communications systems on Earth, and satellites in orbit. Specifically, on 23 July 2012 a major double CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) event...
by David Todd | Jul 21, 2014 | On a Lighter Note, Russia, Science, Soyuz
At 2050 GMT on 18 July 2014, a Russian Soyuz 2-1A launch vehicle successfully lofted the Foton M4 spacecraft into low Earth orbit (LEO) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan. Aboard the vessel were various material science and biological...
by David Todd | Jul 14, 2014 | ESA, History, Science, Technology
In a dramatic reshuffle of UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s cabinet, the Rt Hon David Willetts MP, Minister of Universities and Science, and who had space as part of his brief, has resigned just hours before being due to make a presentation on Britain’s...
