by David Todd | Mar 26, 2014 | Satellites, Science, Seradata News, Technology
It has been lauded as a top scientific achievement but the sadness to relatives of the 239 passengers and crew of the missing Malaysian Airlines MH370 flight that resulted from their work will not be lost on engineers and scientists working at the mobile satellite...
by David Todd | Mar 19, 2014 | commercial launch services, NASA, Satellites, Science
NASA has selected an Atlas V launch vehicle operated by United Launch Services LLC to launch the Solar Orbiter Collaboration mission to study the sun in July 2017. The Solar Orbiter will launch on an Atlas V 411 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral...
by David Todd | Mar 18, 2014 | Science, Seradata News
By examining microwave polarisation in the Cosmic Microwave Pattern, evidence of Gravitational waves rippling through the Universe after being expanded by “inflation” has been discovered by astronomers using the BICEP 2 telescope at the South Pole. The...
by David Todd | Mar 17, 2014 | On a Lighter Note, Science, Technology
In its previous Space Intelligence News incarnation, this news service noted that the British Royal Navy had won the Ig Nobel Peace Prize in 2000 (an irreverent alternative to the real Nobel Peace Prize) for ordering its sailors to save money on cannon shells during...
by David Todd | Mar 12, 2014 | Satellites, Science, Technology
The mysterious disappearance of the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777-200ER jet airliner (on Flight MH370) with 239 passengers and crew in March has resulted in Earth observation spacecraft of various nations being tasked with finding the location of the presumed...
by David Todd | Mar 12, 2014 | exploration, NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
The NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft put itself into a precautionary safe standby mode on 9 March after an unscheduled swap from one main computer to another. The mission’s ground team has begun restoring the spacecraft to full operations. Full...
