by Mark Williamson | Jul 28, 2021 | Blue Origin, Commercial human spaceflight, exploration, Finance, NASA, Seradata News, SpaceX, Technology
Blue Origin CEO and recent addition to the ranks of ‘astronaut’, Jeff Bezos, has offered to restore competition to NASA’s Human Landing System (HLS) programme in an open letter to the NASA Administrator. In return for an HLS contract, Bezos has offered to cover the...
by Matt Wilson | May 21, 2021 | exploration, Launches, NASA, Seradata News
On 19 May Firefly Aerospace contracted SpaceX to launch its Blue Ghost lunar lander mission, planned for 2023. SpaceX will utilise its Falcon 9 launch vehicle for the mission. Firefly is developing the Blue Ghost lander as part of the NASA CLPS (Commercial Lunar...
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...
