by David Todd | Nov 8, 2012 | On a Lighter Note, Science
While the late Clive Dunn or Douglas Adams might have told them to: Don’t Panic, it seems that the BBC was actually panicked into trying to prevent an attempt to contact aliens on live television. Specifically, as part of a live television show called...
by David Todd | Oct 23, 2012 | History, Satellites, Science, Technology
On 20th January 1994 a major solar/geogmagnetic event knocked out satellites and partially shut down the power grid in Canada. The satellites most seriously affected were the Telesat Anik E-1 and E-2 communications satellites which were knocked...
by David Todd | Oct 22, 2012 | Satellites, Science
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced that the GOES 13 meterological satellite has now been recovered to service. The spacecraft, which had suffered a failure to its temperature and humidity sounder and multi-spectral imager...
by David Todd | Oct 15, 2012 | On a Lighter Note, Science
We, at the Flightglobal Hyperbola blog, give our heartfelt congratulations to the very brave 43-year-old Austrian “jumpanaut” Felix Baumgartner who forgot the old RAF adage “never jump out of a serviceable aircraft” (or balloon for that matter)...
by David Todd | Sep 25, 2012 | Satellites, Science, Seradata News
According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), GOES 14 was brought in to replace GOES 13 as the operational GOES East satellite on 24/09/2012 after the GOES 13’s failed at 1126 GMT on 23 September and the...
by David Todd | Sep 6, 2012 | exploration, NASA, Satellites, Science
The NASA spacecraft, Dawn, escaped the gravity of the asteroid Vesta at 0626 GMT on 5 September where it has spent the last year studying the asteroid and is now headed towards the largest object in the asteroid belt, Ceres, where it is expected to arrive in...
