by David Todd | Oct 10, 2012 | ESA, exploration, NASA, SLS, Technology
The 63rd International Astronautical Congress (IAC) took place in Naples, at its Congress centre and exhibition venue at Mostra d’Oltremare during the first week of October. The IAC Congress broke records with its attendance with 4,000 excecutives, scientists,...
by David Todd | Sep 12, 2012 | Technology
While the loss of privacy in this increasingly Orwellian “Big Brother” surveillance age concerns many, not least after the recent revelation that many UK schools are using CCTV cameras in school toilets and changing...
by David Todd | Aug 22, 2012 | Apollo, China, Constellation, exploration, JAXA, NASA, Seradata News, SLS, Technology
Two years ago, the space team at the Ascend consultancy (now part of Flightglobal) did an analysis on which nation was likely to be the first to return men to the moon. In the analysis notional odds were assigned to each which country as a measure of our estimation...
by Dan Thisdell | Aug 7, 2012 | ESA, NASA, Science, Technology
Not much to see here apart from the heat shield flying off and the ground approaching, but JPL has provided this stop-motion video of frames from the last 2.5mins of flight – the best glimpse of what it would have looked like to ride on Curiosity…...
by David Todd | Jul 16, 2012 | ESA, Seradata News, Technology
The Director General of the European Space Agency, Jean-Jacques Dordain, noted why the surprise entry by the British reusable rocket engineering firm, Reaction Engines, in the competition to replace the Ariane 5 rocket, did not get further: ...
by David Todd | Jul 12, 2012 | Technology
Enrico Sargesse, Director General of the Italian Space Agency ASI noted in his presentation that Vega’s payload is to be increased to 3-3.5 tonnes. He foresaw that the launch vehicle would bid to launch small communications satellites heading for...
