by David Todd | Oct 21, 2014 | Military space, Satellites, Science, Seradata News, Technology
The US Air Force successfully recovered the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) unmanned mini-shuttle after it successfully re-entered the atmosphere and landed at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, at 1624 GMT on 17 October 2014. Details of the 674-day...
by David Todd | Oct 16, 2014 | History, Technology
This column has taken the editorial line that democratic freedom is worth protecting. As such, we continue to warn against further incursions on the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, as well to an individual’s right of privacy,...
by David Todd | Oct 16, 2014 | Commercial human spaceflight, NASA, Seradata News, Technology
The industry magazine and web news channel, Aviation Week and Space Technology, has disclosed that the Sierra Nevada Corp (SNC) bid to obtain NASA Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CctCap) funding lost out to Boeing and SpaceX because of concerns over...
by David Todd | Sep 17, 2014 | commercial launch services, Technology
The launch provider, United Launch Alliance (ULA) which is jointly owned by Boeing and Lockheed Martin, and the commercial alunch start up, Blue Origin LLC , which is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, have announced a joint project to build a new LOx...
by David Todd | Sep 11, 2014 | Apollo, International Space Station, Technology
As we noted the departure to the breakers yard of the former Royal Navy Frigate HMS Plymouth, this column forgot to mention that it was one of the last warships that still had portholes in its main hull. In fact, portholes (more properly known as scuttles) are...
by David Todd | Sep 2, 2014 | Suborbital, Technology
On 25 August 2014, a test of the Advanced Hypersonic Weapon ended in failure at Kodiak Island in Alaska when the three stage carrier rocket which was meant to accelerate the test vehicle to hypersonic but suborbital speed was exploded deliberately due to a detected...
