by David Todd | May 16, 2014 | Add category, NASA, Satellites, Science
Scientists at the University of Reading have discovered a cause and effect phenomenon which could revolutionise weather forecasting. By studying the solar wind, and measuring the relative frequency of lightning discharges on Earth, they have found was appears to be a...
by David Todd | May 8, 2014 | Add category, ESA, exploration, NASA, Satellites, Science
Planetary Scientist, Professor Colin Pillinger, has passed away at the age of 70 after suffering a brain haemorrhage. He had been suffering for several years with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Pillinger worked for the Open University based in Milton Keynes. He gained...
by David Todd | May 6, 2014 | Add category, ESA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
Attracted by increased UK funding and the UK’s low business tax rates, the European space manufacturer Thales Alenia Space has announced the creation of a new British subsidiary, Thales Alenia Space UK which will be based at the Harwell Science and Innovation...
by David Todd | Apr 22, 2014 | Add category, On a Lighter Note, Satellites, Science
The UK bookmaker William Hill used to offer odds of 500-1 that the Loch Ness Monster (“Nessie”) would be proven to exist by the British Natural History Museum in London during a given year. After a number of recently reported sightings of a long necked...
by David Todd | Apr 22, 2014 | Add category, NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
At the end of its (her) mission, NASA’s LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment) spacecraft crashed into the lunar surface on the Far Side of the Moon on the morning of 18 April 2014. The impact occurred at 0430 and 0522 GMT. NASA plans to image the...
by David Todd | Mar 31, 2014 | Add category, Commercial human spaceflight, NASA, Satellites, Science
NASA has announced that its Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) will be launched by an air-launched Orbital Sciences Corp’ Pegasus XL launch vehicle in October 2016 from near Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Designed in conjunction...
