by David Todd | Nov 27, 2018 | exploration, NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
At 2101 GMT on 27 November 2018, via UHF signals converted to X-band signals on two released Mars Cube One (MarCO A and B) data relay spacecraft and via the Deep Space Network on Earth, it was confirmed to NASA engineers, at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, that...
by David Todd | Nov 26, 2018 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, NASA, On a Lighter Note, Seradata News, SpaceX
We joked a month or two ago that some would be wondering what Elon Musk had been smoking when they found out that the latest BFS (now called Starship) design had been deliberately changed to make it look more like Tintin’s rocket ship. Now NASA is apparently doing the...
by Matt Wilson | Nov 19, 2018 | Launches, NASA, Satellites, Seradata News, space station
Following a two-day delay the first Cygnus freighter, Cygnus NG-10, was launched on its way to the International Space Station (ISS) at 0901 GMT on 17 November 2018. The Cygnus was launched by another now Northrop product, an Antares 230 rocket – powered by two...
by Matt Wilson | Oct 31, 2018 | NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
NASA have announced that after nine years in-orbit the Kepler space telescope has ceased its planet hunting mission on 30 October. Kepler has been in a low-fuel state for months however, it entered a “no-fuel-use” safe mode on 19 October, following a...
by David Todd | Sep 24, 2018 | Apollo, NASA, On a Lighter Note, Seradata News
She might be an accomplished businesswoman in her own right and one of his most trusted advisers, but to US President Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump will always just be the apple of his eye. For Ivanka is his daughter. So after she made it clear, in a September phone call...
