by David Todd | Apr 25, 2014 | Add category, Satellites
On 25 April 2014, it was announced that Airbus Defence and Space has been selected as sole prime contractor to develop, construct and launch a high resolution Earth observation optical satellite system for Peru, with the support of the French government. It will...
by David Todd | Apr 25, 2014 | Add category, International Space Station, NASA
US Astronauts Rick Mastracchi and Steve Swanson make and extravehicular activity (spacewalk) on 23 April to swap out a failed back up MDM computer relay on the S-0 truss outside of the International Space Station’s modules. The back up MDM...
by David Todd | Apr 25, 2014 | Add category, International Space Station, NASA, Seradata News, space station, Technology
After his launch in 2011, this Space Intelligence news column previously dubbed the Robonaut 2 (R2) robot aboard the International Space Station (ISS) with the nickname “Dougie” after Douglas Bader the famous World War 2 fighter pilot, as in common with...
by David Todd | Apr 23, 2014 | Add category, commercial launch services, SpaceX
The space launch vehicle and spacecraft manufacturer Orbital Sciences Corp has a reported shortlist of three engines as it searches for a replacement engine for its Antares launch vehicle. The rocket currently uses two first stage engines of the NK-33 design which...
by David Todd | Apr 22, 2014 | Add category, On a Lighter Note, Satellites, Science
The UK bookmaker William Hill used to offer odds of 500-1 that the Loch Ness Monster (“Nessie”) would be proven to exist by the British Natural History Museum in London during a given year. After a number of recently reported sightings of a long necked...
by David Todd | Apr 22, 2014 | Add category, Satellites, Soyuz
The Egyptsat 2 earth observation satellite has been launched by a Soyuz U launch vehicle from the Baikonur launch site near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan at 1620 GMT on 16 April 2014. The spacecraft which has an official civilian use, is expected to have some military...
