by David Todd | Nov 27, 2014 | commercial launch services, Seradata News, SpaceX, Technology
The next flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9v1.1 which is tentatively set to launch the Dragon CRS-5 cargo craft by the end of December 2014 may use a fully reusable first stage – bringing it up to the Falcon 9R standard. During some previous Falcon 9 launches, first stages...
by David Todd | Nov 24, 2014 | commercial launch services, Seradata News, Technology
The market for smaller satellites grows strongly, the quest for low cost launches for satellites at the smaller end of the spectrum has led to various concepts to be considered – as least some of which may come to fruition. On the one hand, dedicated...
by David Todd | Nov 17, 2014 | History, Technology
While the main mission’s early digital computer carried by the Apollo 11 moon landing mission, is famously said to have less computing power than today’s simplest mobile phones, its existence, and with it, and all the other digital computers ranging from...
by David Todd | Nov 13, 2014 | SpaceX, Technology
Rockets-to-electric-cars billionaire, Elon Musk, is apparently harking back to his internet days – the way he originally started his fortune. Musk has announced via a tweet that he is, in fact, working on a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation to...
by David Todd | Oct 21, 2014 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, Satellites, Science, Spaceport, Technology
Too much to see, and too little time to see it is the usual complaint about IAC, especially with respect to the various parallel strands of technical sessions. Trying to get the timing right to switch between sessions for individual lectures was virtually impossible...
by David Todd | Oct 21, 2014 | History, Satellites, Technology
While quite small, the IAC’s exhibition of stands had plenty of “big players”, such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, SpaceX and DLR. The largest and most impressive of the stands was probably Lockheed Martin’s, with suspended models ranging from the Orion capsule to...
