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...
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,...
