by David Todd | Jul 1, 2013 | Technology
The UK-based manufacturer, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) which is part of EADS, and JV Ghalam LLP. a joint venture between JSC “National Company Kazakhstan Garysh Sapary” (KGS) and EADS Astrium, have agreed to jointlly develop the...
by David Todd | Jun 28, 2013 | Technology
The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon George Osborne MP, this week revealed further cuts in government department spending. While some departments experienced heavy cuts, some others were left relatively unscathed. The...
by David Todd | Jun 18, 2013 | ESA, Science, Technology
While its main role is vegetation mapping, the European Space Agency’s Proba-V spacecraft is also being used to carry an aircraft tracking payload. While primary radars can give direct positioning of aircraft by their radar returns, and transponders can give...
by David Todd | Jun 14, 2013 | commercial launch services, Russia, Technology
Reuters reports that the joint Boeing-Lockheed Martin firm, United Launch Alliance (ULA), which builds and markets the Atlas V and Delta IV rockets, will be investigated by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for anti-trust violations in allegedly using an...
by David Todd | Apr 26, 2013 | exploration, Russia, Technology
While the name Orion has been used as the name of real and fictional spacecraft before (e.g. Space 2001 – A space Odyssey’s transport shuttle, and the latest manned spacecraft being developed by NASA) the original Project Orion was actually about...
by David Todd | Apr 12, 2013 | Science, Seradata News, Technology
US President Barack Obama has formally made his Fiscal Year 2014 budget request for NASA. At $17.7 billion investment the budget is largely unchanged in cash terms from 2012 levels and is $1 billion higher than the 2013 budget, but taking inflation into account,...
