by David Todd | May 29, 2013 | Science
The 17th International Space Conference held in Rome in May 2013, concentrated on the various threats and hazards to and from space. Organised by Pagnanelli Risk Solutions, its head Benito Paganelli noted at the start that while major space storms affecting Earth are...
by David Todd | May 24, 2013 | Science
GOES-13 (East) has experienced an anomaly at 0340 GMT on 22 September 2012 and fell into a safe/storage mode. In not now being pointed at the Earth, it is unable to generate imagery of the planet. The reserve spacecraft GOES-14 is being brought in to replace it for...
by David Todd | May 23, 2013 | Science, Seradata News, SLS
The U.S. House Science, Space and Technology Committee received expert evidence as they discussed which destination man should make its first port of call on its way to the planets. Currently NASA and the Obama Administration is promoting a plan to capture a small...
by David Todd | May 22, 2013 | Russia, Science, Seradata News
After a one month mission in orbit, the Russian Bion M1 mission’s capsule carrying animals and plants separated from the equipment module of the Bion-M spacecraft at 0232 GMT on 19 May and initiated re-entry. The capsule landed at 0312...
by David Todd | May 16, 2013 | Science
During a routine call up of NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler mission on 14 May, the spacecraft was found to have fallen into a safe mode with an attitude error. During an attempt to return to reaction wheel control as the spacecraft rotated into...
by David Todd | May 2, 2013 | On a Lighter Note, Science
“Sinister! Dexter! Sinister! Dexter!” (Left, Right, Left, Right)…Flightglobal will be marching its Hyperbola legion to Rome next week for the 17th International Space Conference being held at the Hotel Parco dei Principi in Rome on 8, 9 and 10 May...
