by David Todd | Sep 17, 2013 | commercial launch services, NASA, Technology
The increasing popularity of using dedicated miniaturised cubesat-class spacecraft for scientific, commercial and military use has meant that many more “launch opportunities” will be needed. NASA knows this itself as its success in promoting cubesat construction by...
by David Todd | Aug 13, 2013 | commercial launch services, Seradata News, Technology
The US solid rocket manufacturer ATK has received a contract from Orbital Sciences Corporation to provide first and second stage propulsion for the Air Launch Vehicle (ALV) that Orbital Sciences is designing and building for Stratolaunch Systems Corporation. ATK has...
by David Todd | Aug 13, 2013 | History, Technology
While you might think that billionaire entrepreneur might have his hands full already via his intests in the rocket firm SpaceX and the Tesla electric car maker, now it seems he wants to get into train travel as well. Well – more correctly air-cushioned tube...
by David Todd | Aug 7, 2013 | commercial launch services, ESA, Seradata News, Technology
While the French and Germans continue to bicker over the final configuration of Ariane 6 even though it has been officially set, the European Space Agency is now looking beyond that rocket. Under a €1 million study the UK-based air-breathing rocket design firm,...
by David Todd | Aug 7, 2013 | Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
While ballistic missile defence radars can be used to track satellites and other orbital objects, one part of the US defence system that is used to detect objects in high altitude orbits, the Space Fence radar tracking system is set to be closed down. According to...
by Dan Thisdell | Jul 11, 2013 | ESA, exploration, Science, Seradata News, Technology
The European Space Agency’s next big science mission – an attempt to unlock the secrets of the so-called “dark matter” invisible to normal telescopes but and its sister mystery, “dark energy”, which may hold the key to the...
