by David Todd | Oct 7, 2015 | commercial launch services, Seradata News, SpaceX, Technology
During September 2015, after a review over their enforceability by the US Patent and Trademark office, the Blue Origin company decided to withdraw 13 of the 15 patent claims it had made against SpaceX over the latter’s subsequent use of a vertically landing...
by David Todd | Oct 7, 2015 | Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
Some of the small cubesat craft that were carried to the International Space Station on 24 August 2015 by the HTV-5 cargo craft have now been released into orbit. First to be ejected from the JEM module airlock were the GOMX-3 and AAUSAT 5 tracking communications...
by David Todd | Sep 24, 2015 | Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
While Taiwan’s 2m ground resolution Formosat 5 is due for its launch in early 2016 on a Falcon 9 launch vehicle, Taiwan’s National Space Programme Office has given out some details of its future Earth observation spacecraft. Under current plans, Taiwan...
by David Todd | Sep 24, 2015 | commercial launch services, Launches, Technology
Following its rejection of a US$2 billion bid by Aerojet Rocketdyne, United Launch Alliance has announced that its launch vehicles will use solid rocket boosters supplied by Orbital ATK instead of Aerojet Rocketdyne. The announcement is especially significant as it...
by David Todd | Sep 9, 2015 | History, Seradata News, Technology
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II received world congratulations on officially surpassing Queen Victoria’s record as the longest reigning British monarch at 1630 GMT on 9 September 2015. Her reign has witnessed great achievements in medical science,...
by David Todd | Sep 4, 2015 | On a Lighter Note, Technology
There is a scene in the World War I series of the BBC comedy show, ‘Black Adder’, in which the British soldiers in the trenches start wistfully to reminisce about how war was much more enjoyable when all the British Army had to fight were natives armed with slices of...
