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...
by David Todd | Aug 8, 2014 | History, Technology
While posterity might put most of the blame for the University tuition fees fiasco – further indebtedness of graduates in conjunction with more expected debt defaults – at the recently departed Science and Universities Minister, David Willetts’...
by David Todd | Jul 25, 2014 | commercial launch services, ESA, JAXA, NASA, Technology
Sierra Nevada Corp has signed memorandum of cooperative understanding with the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) work on potential applications of Japanese technologies and the development of mission concepts for the Dream Chaser spacecraft. Additionally,...
by David Todd | Jul 25, 2014 | Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
The US Air Force has announced the companies it wishes to work with under a firm-fixed price contract to allow its and other US Government hosted payloads to be applied to commercial satellites. The Hosted Payload Solutions (HoPs) programme will involve both actual...
by David Todd | Jul 18, 2014 | History, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
A Malaysian Airlines civil passenger-carrying Boeing 777 aircraft (flight MH17) with 298 passengers and crew aboard has crashed and been totally destroyed on 17 July 2014 in the disputed region of East Ukraine after allegedly being shot down at high altitude by a...
