by David Todd | Aug 11, 2020 | China, exploration, NASA, Russia, Seradata News, SpaceX
Every August, Seradata does an analysis of which nation is leading the “human” space race – or rather races – to return humans to the Moon and put them on the surface of Mars. This year progress has become clearer and the USA is very much the leading contender in both...
by David Todd | Aug 21, 2017 | China, ESA, India, NASA, Russia, Seradata News
Every year Seradata publishes its analysis of how well different nations are doing in the “great space race”. In this, we limit our analysis to manned spaceflight and to its two main exploratory targets: a return to the Moon and setting foot on Mars. On the basis of...
by David Todd | Nov 14, 2016 | Add category, Science
Astronomers have advised that the Moon will appear larger and brighter in the sky than normal as its orbit will takes it to closest distance from Earth since 1948. The moon had its closest perigee at 356,509 km (221,524 miles) at 1121 GMT on the morning of 14 November...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 15, 2010 | Seradata News
Later today president Barack Obama will give a speech about his plans for NASA at the Kennedy Space Center. In advance of that Republican Utah Congressman Rob Bishop gave a statement on the floor of the House of Representatives urging him to maintain the...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 8, 2010 | Seradata News
India’s test of a new rocket engine had to be stopped early according to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) while Aviation Week’s Beijing correspondent Bradley Perrett scores a scoop with Chinese Moon rocket planning Talking to the Chinese in...