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...
by David Todd | Mar 18, 2014 | commercial launch services, History, Russia, Technology
As our Ukranian crisis analysis predicted, the US Government is now concerned that a Russian-built rocket engine, the RD-180, is being used to power United Launch Alliance (ULA)-operated Atlas V launch vehicle, one of two types the US Department of Defence currently...
by David Todd | Mar 17, 2014 | On a Lighter Note, Science, Technology
In its previous Space Intelligence News incarnation, this news service noted that the British Royal Navy had won the Ig Nobel Peace Prize in 2000 (an irreverent alternative to the real Nobel Peace Prize) for ordering its sailors to save money on cannon shells during...
