by Dan Thisdell | Jan 10, 2013 | ESA, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, space station, Technology
Just to give an idea of lead times in spaceflight: Arianespace has begun loading cargo into the European Space Agency’s fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle robotic supply ship, named Albert Einstein – which launches via Ariane 5 rocket for the International...
by David Todd | Jan 10, 2013 | exploration, Space tourism, Technology
While Elon Musk and his SpaceX outfit are planning their own Martian settlement having thousands of inhabitants, another firm, Mars One, is considering doing the same thing, albeit on a much smaller scale. It is inviting applications to become one of...
by David Todd | Nov 26, 2012 | Science, Technology
A new Centre for the Study of Existential Risk has been opened at Cambridge University by the Astronomer Royal, Lord Rees, who has previously written at length on threats posed to mankind and the rest of the world in his book Our Final Century...
by David Todd | Nov 21, 2012 | ESA, exploration, Science, Seradata News, Technology
The German Research Agency, the DLR, gave up pushing for a Moonlander spacecraft to be included in European Space Agency’s (ESA) budget proposals currently being discussed at ministerial meeting being held in Naples, Italy. Germany admitted that it could not...
by David Todd | Nov 19, 2012 | China, Seradata News, Technology
China launched the Huanjing 1C (HJ 1C), Xinyan 1 (XY 1) and Fengniao 1 A/B (FN 1A/B) satellites on a Long March 2C launch vehicle at 2253 GMT on 18 November from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in China. The HJ 1C satellite carries a S band (3.13 GHz) synthetic...
by David Todd | Oct 29, 2012 | Seradata News, Technology
While the latest James Bond adventure Skyfall (Director: Sam Mendes) does use a lot of ‘Big Brother’ surveillance technology to make us fret about the future (GPS tracking, Automatic Number Plate Recognition ANPR cameras, networked CCTV cameras with facial...
