by David Todd | Dec 16, 2013 | China, exploration, Science, Seradata News, Technology
At 1311 GMT on 14 December, China’s space programme managed to land its first rover exploration vehicle on another body when its Chang’e 3 lander touched down on the Moon. Following a breaking burn to reduce the velocity of the craft from 1.7km/s to...
by David Todd | Dec 13, 2013 | China, Satellites, Technology
The UK space industry got an £80 million boost from the UK government in December as part of a new £455 million, five-year package within the government’s autumn budget revision to fund bilateral science-based deals with emerging market economies including China and...
by David Todd | Dec 13, 2013 | Satellites, Technology
In the light of former intelligence contractor, Edward Snowden’s leaks about just how far the US and UK intelligence and security services (CIA, FBI, NSA, NRO, MI5, MI6 (SIS), GCHQ etc) go in trawling the internet for metadata intelligence and actual content,...
by David Todd | Dec 11, 2013 | exploration, Personal spaceflight, Satellites, Space tourism, Technology
The plan to start a colony on the planet Mars, funded by reality television, had a filip in December when the Mars One not-for-profit organisation involved announced that it had signed design contracts with two major space companies. A $250,000 mission concept study...
by David Todd | Nov 15, 2013 | ESA, History, Satellites, Science, Space tourism, Technology
While the UK Space Agency basks in the plaudits and adulation received recently both from the UK Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee and from other independent commentators, it hopes to maintain the momentum as it publishes its latest plan for future...
by David Todd | Nov 7, 2013 | Technology
While some of us have long wondered about sightings of the mystical “Aurora” delta winged super jet since the 1990s which was allegedly powered by some sort of pulse jet (along with a string of donuts vapour trail) one high speed jet concept more likely to...
