by David Todd | Mar 14, 2013 | ESA, exploration, Russia, Science, Technology
After NASA found it could no longer offer launches for the ExoMars mission, the European Space Agency (ESA) approached Russia for help. As a result of long running discussions, on 14 March the ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain and Head of Roscosmos...
by David Todd | Feb 28, 2013 | Commercial human spaceflight, exploration, On a Lighter Note, Science, Space tourism, Technology
Dennis Tito and his Inspiration Mars outfit has been giving full details of their plan to send humans around the planet Mars on a free return trajectory using a capsule and inflatable living area. Interestingly, they are asking for older/middle-age couples to apply...
by David Todd | Feb 20, 2013 | History, Military space, Seradata News, Technology
On 13 February 2013, the Raytheon Company announced that its Standard Missile SM-3 Block 1A was fired from the USS Lake Erie and successfully destroyed a medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) target using tracking data from two Space Tracking and Surveillance...
by David Todd | Feb 12, 2013 | History, Seradata News, Technology
South Korean seismographic readings have indicated that North Korea has conducted its third nuclear weapons test at 0257 GMT on 12 February in the North Western region of the country. The underground test of a fission class weapon is estimated to have had an...
by David Todd | Feb 11, 2013 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, On a Lighter Note, Personal spaceflight, Technology
While Reaction Engines’ rocket designer Alan Bond still hopes to see his airbreathing-rocket powered Skylon space plane design fly one day and may even ride in it inside its passenger cabin himself when it does so, he told the audience at the European AstroFest...
by David Todd | Feb 5, 2013 | Science, Technology
A Near Earth Object (NEO) asteroid 2012 DA14 is due to make a very close pass of Earth on 15 February as it flies well within the Geostationary Orbital altitude of 36,000km at circa 1800-2200 GMT. Observers in Europe wanting to view the object should see it moving...
