by David Todd | Jul 17, 2014 | commercial launch services, Technology
In a news release the US DARPA agency has announced the award of three research contracts examining configurations in its Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1). The prime contracts worth reportedly circa US$4 million for Phase 1 of XS-1 have been awarded to three teams: The...
by David Todd | Jul 16, 2014 | commercial launch services, NASA, Seradata News, Spaceport, Technology
At the Farnborough International Air Show, Space technology was in evidence – most noticeably the special Space Zone in Exhibition Hall 3 where UK and other countries had their space wares on display. There were also some big announcements. The UK Government...
by David Todd | Jul 14, 2014 | ESA, History, Science, Technology
In a dramatic reshuffle of UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s cabinet, the Rt Hon David Willetts MP, Minister of Universities and Science, and who had space as part of his brief, has resigned just hours before being due to make a presentation on Britain’s...
by David Todd | Jul 11, 2014 | History, NASA, Science, Technology
An attempt to rescue a 36-year old explorer spacecraft, ISEE-3, by veteran space engineers has failed after the spacecraft’s thruster system was found to be faulty. NASA’s venerable International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 (ISEE-3 aka ISEE 03) spacecraft has had...
by David Todd | Jul 10, 2014 | History, Seradata News, Technology
Even before Edward Snowden’s confirmatory revelations, it was always suspected that national security services were able to monitor individuals’ telephone and internet connections, and even GPS satellite location records, via the “metadata”...
by David Todd | Jun 30, 2014 | India, Satellites, Science, Technology
At 0422 GMT on 30 September a PSLV launch vehicle successfully launched the 714kg Spot 7 Earth remote sensing satellite from the Sriharikota launch site in India. Also aboard was the AISAT for the DLR which is carrying a ship tracking payload, a pair of CAN-X...
