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...
by David Todd | Sep 1, 2014 | Seradata News, Technology
Northrop Grumman Corporation with Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic have revealed artwork of their preliminary design for DARPA’s Experimental Spaceplane XS-1 (Experimental Spaceplane 1) Programme as the first fruits of an awarded DARPA financed phase 1...
by David Todd | Aug 24, 2014 | History, Seradata News, Technology
It is sad to report that the former Royal Navy Rothesay-class frigate, HMS Plymouth, which used Sea Cat missiles to fight off low level air attacks during the Falklands War of 1982 (she was set on fire after four non-exploding bombs hit her just outside of San Carlos...
