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,...
by David Todd | Apr 8, 2013 | History, Technology
While the actual war fighting intent of North Korea remains an enigma, its various “sabre-rattling” threats to conduct a nuclear first strike on neighbouring countries and US bases in the region is being taken seriously, especially in the light...
by David Todd | Mar 28, 2013 | On a Lighter Note, Technology
While Flightglobal’s Hyperbola blog previously referenced the science fiction movie Soylent Green (1973) as a warning as to how far the current European horsemeat scandal may go – as Charlton Heston’s character exclaimed about mankind’s...
by David Todd | Mar 22, 2013 | Technology
While the European space firm Astrium’s communications satellite services division continues to build on its revenues, so far its Earth observation and radar imagery business has not quite delivered the revenues it...
by David Todd | Mar 18, 2013 | History, Iran, Russia, Technology
Aware that North Korea is much further advanced than Iran with its nuclear weapons programme (North Korea has fission-class nuclear weapons, Iran does not yet have them) and appreciating that North Korea is now verbally threatening the continental USA with nuclear...
