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...
by David Todd | Oct 26, 2012 | China, Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
The Chinese navigation satellite, Beidou 2-G6 (Compass G6), was launched into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) on its way to its Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) position by a Long March 3C rocket flying out of the Xichang launch site. The satellite...
by David Todd | Oct 23, 2012 | History, Satellites, Science, Technology
On 20th January 1994 a major solar/geogmagnetic event knocked out satellites and partially shut down the power grid in Canada. The satellites most seriously affected were the Telesat Anik E-1 and E-2 communications satellites which were knocked...
