by David Todd | May 22, 2014 | Add category, Satellites, Technology
A plan to deploy a formation 104 “Femtosatellites” ended in failure after 3u-cubesat spacecraft, KickSat, which had been carrying the formation had an electronic fault. Kicksat’s micro controller apparently had suffered a hard reset on 30 April...
by David Todd | Apr 28, 2014 | Satellites, Technology
Space Systems/Loral has lost its case with Viasat Inc in which Viasat accused the manufacturer of using its technology developed for its Viasat-1 broadband satellite on later satellites for other operators. Having been found guilty of patent infringement and breaches...
by David Todd | Apr 25, 2014 | Add category, International Space Station, NASA, Seradata News, space station, Technology
After his launch in 2011, this Space Intelligence news column previously dubbed the Robonaut 2 (R2) robot aboard the International Space Station (ISS) with the nickname “Dougie” after Douglas Bader the famous World War 2 fighter pilot, as in common with...
by David Todd | Mar 26, 2014 | Technology
While the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) may have an air of unreality about it given the limited monies attributed to the project, but it is apparently going forward with its XS-1 (Experimental Spaceplane 1) programme for a reusable space plane...
by David Todd | Mar 26, 2014 | Satellites, Science, Seradata News, Technology
It has been lauded as a top scientific achievement but the sadness to relatives of the 239 passengers and crew of the missing Malaysian Airlines MH370 flight that resulted from their work will not be lost on engineers and scientists working at the mobile satellite...
by David Todd | Mar 20, 2014 | commercial launch services, ESA, Seradata News, Technology
The compromise “Eurofudge” decision, in late 2012, by the European Space Agency (ESA) both to pursue the ME upgrade to the Ariane 5 launch vehicle and to develop its solid/liquid based Ariane 6 successor looks likely to unravel. At a meeting between...
