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...
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...
