by David Todd | Nov 15, 2013 | ESA, History, Satellites, Science, Space tourism, Technology
While the UK Space Agency basks in the plaudits and adulation received recently both from the UK Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee and from other independent commentators, it hopes to maintain the momentum as it publishes its latest plan for future...
by David Todd | Nov 12, 2013 | History, On a Lighter Note, Science
While Star Trek’s TV and film series had its USS Enterprise captained by a brave young chap called Captain James T. Kirk (the “T” stands for Tiberius), back on Earth, the US Navy just appointed a Captain James Kirk as captain for its latest warship...
by David Todd | Nov 11, 2013 | exploration, History, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
A series of orbit raising manoevres for India’s controversial new space probe Mangalyaan in which the spacecraft would be raised to higher and higher Earth orbits before finally being injected into a high-efficiency Hohman transfer orbit, has been temporarily...
by David Todd | Nov 11, 2013 | ESA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
The European GOCE (Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Experiment) Earth-gravity measurement spacecraft has now re-entered at around 0001 GMT on 11 November 2013. It is thought that most of the spacecraft burned up safely after its uncommanded re-entry. ...
by David Todd | Nov 7, 2013 | History, Science
The Science Journal Nature has published a paper by scientists who claim from their research that asteroid strikes on Earth are much more common than than thought. According to Peter Brown, a planetary scientist at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, noted...
by David Todd | Nov 4, 2013 | Science, Seradata News
A rare hybrid annular/total solar eclipse in which a “total eclipse” in which the Moon blocks out the sun (except for its Corona) takes turns with a “ring of fire”annular eclipse where the Moon is not quite large enough to cover the sun, was...
