While the University of Surrey has an excellent reputation in electronics and space research – it was after all the alma mater of the very successful Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) – it has now gained a more worrying recent reputation: its...
On 6 June, Northrop Grumman’s proposed acquisition of fellow aerospace manufacturer Orbital ATK was approved by the US FTC (Federal Trade Commission). The acquired business has been renamed Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems and incorporated into the company as...
While President Trump has formally decided that landing humans back on the Moon should get priority over a longer term Mars landing ambition, it maybe that no past moonwalker will be around by the time the next moonwalk happens. For the world has sadly lost another...
The biggest satellite television single-day live event of the year took place at St George’s Chapel, Windsor castle, when Prince Harry married Meghan Markle on Saturday 19 May. Some two billion viewers were estimated to have watched around the world, and there was no...
The Royal Wedding a few miles down the road from this writer’s house promises to be biggest single day TV event this year (the FIFA World Cup will command a larger total audience but that will be over several days). Already most of the world’s TV media...
We give our congratulations to the Royal Air Force (RAF) which celebrates its centenary from its formation from the merged Royal Flying Corp and Royal Naval Air Service in April 1918. After helping complete the defeat of Germany in World War I, and fight some of...
