The space launch year showed a large spike in the number of launches with 114 orbital attempts. This was the largest number since 1990’s 121 attempts – the final full year of the “cold war” before the Soviet Union broke apart. The launches carried 470 payloads which,...
While this column has liked to make fun of the German accent, Germans are also famous for putting the verb at the end of their sentences – just like the Star Wars’ Yoda character. As such, Seradata could not resist putting this factor into its e-Christmas card this...
After a series of delays due to reasons ranging from national holidays to high winds, the Sun-Synch Express mission for Spaceflight Industries was launched by a Space X Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket at 1834 GMT, 3 December 2018. The launch from the western SpaceX launch pad...
After writing his latest book on the subject, during November, space historian and author, Gurbir Singh, presented a precis lecture at the British Interplanetary Society detailing the history of the Indian Space Programme. Singh showed how modern space science...
At the end of November there was yet another sign that the World War II veterans are becoming an endangered species. Former U.S. President George H. W. Bush, who bravely served as a torpedo bomber aviator in the US Navy and who was even shot down, has passed away at...
Your correspondent writes this as one who has been accused of being dangerously right-wing by some on the left, and accused of being dangerously left-wing by some on the right. It is always nice to be disliked by everyone! Nevertheless, whether they come from the...
