The name Zuma has been featuring a lot on the internet during the last couple of days – and by a quirk of fate, for two different reasons. One reason is because the President of South Africa Jacob Zuma is attempting to broker a deal between the deposed President...
With assets of less than US$10 million and liabilities of more than twice this amount, XCOR Aerospace filed for bankruptcy after finding that it could not raise further funds. The firm was once a competitor to Virgin Galactic in the suborbital spaceplane space tourism...
Those of you who read our obituary columns would have noted that Seradata’s Space team’s one time boss Andrew Gleadow passed away in October. This writer was glad to attend his memorial service for him at St. Nicholas church in Chawton where Jane Austin...
NASA has paid its respects to one of its former faithful servants, astronaut Richard (Dick) Gordon, who has passed away at the age of 88 during November. Gordon was the command module pilot on Apollo 12, the second lunar landing mission in late 1969. That happy and...
The Royal Navy has been rocked by scandals involving sex and drugs within its elite Submarine Service. First came the revelation that Commander Stuart Armstrong, captain of HMS Vigilant, which carries Trident nuclear missiles, had been relieved of his command for...
Seradata gives its sympathy to all those involved in the Las Vegas mass shooting in October. As we have noted before – guns have their place – even on Soyuz spacecraft where they are carried for defence against wild animals in case an Earth return goes off...
