by David Todd | Apr 13, 2016 | exploration, Science, Technology
While physicists note that the speed of light cannot be exceeded, at least on current understanding, using light itself to accelerate a spacecraft could get one to 20 per cent of the speed of light (3 x 108 m/s). A new project called “Project Starshot” has been...
by David Todd | Apr 12, 2016 | commercial launch services, space station, Technology
The Boeing/Lockheed Martin-owned United Launch Alliance (ULA) has declared in the Denver Post that it will cut 375 jobs out of its total of 3,400 in 2016. The firm expects the majority of these to be achieved relatively painlessly via voluntary redundancies. However,...
by David Todd | Apr 6, 2016 | Commercial human spaceflight, Seradata News, Space tourism, Suborbital, Technology
Blue Origin is proving the concept of reusability as it made a third flight using the same reusable New Shepard suborbital rocket on 2 April 2016. The flight reached an altitude of 103km (339,178 feet) – 3km further than the accepted start of “space” – where it...
by David Todd | Mar 31, 2016 | ESA, exploration, Science, Technology
Johann-Dietrich ‘Jan’ Woerner has been Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA) since 1 July 2015. After eight years heading German Aerospace Centre (DLR) and the German delegation at ESA, he succeeded Jean-Jacques Dordain in the leading ESA executive role....
by David Todd | Mar 23, 2016 | Science, Technology
The Daily Telegraph and the BBC Horizon programme have reported on a scientific development that is regarded as break though new detection technology: a method detecting tiny fluctuations in gravity. British scientists of the Porton Down military science...
by David Todd | Mar 22, 2016 | exploration, Satellites, Science, Technology
The Emirates Mars mission orbiter HOPE will be sent on its voyage initially by a Japanese H-2A rocket flying from Tanegashima in Japan. The spacecraft was booked on a flight to take place in 2020. The mission is owned and operated by the United Arab Emirates Space...
