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...
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...
