by David Todd | Sep 5, 2014 | History, On a Lighter Note, Satellites
While NATO used DigitalGlobe’s commercially available high-resolution satellite imagery to prove that Russian columns of armoured vehicles and motorised artillery had entered Ukraine (since backed up by French satellite observations), Russian diplomats have...
by David Todd | Aug 23, 2014 | Apollo, History, On a Lighter Note, Seradata News, SpaceX
While the urban legend joke about the moonwalking Neil Armstrong congratulating his childhood next door neighbour Mr. Gorsky under his breath on the Moon is untrue (the apocryphal story is too rude to print here but here is a link 🙂 ), and while the Apollo 11...
by David Todd | Jul 21, 2014 | On a Lighter Note, Russia, Science, Soyuz
At 2050 GMT on 18 July 2014, a Russian Soyuz 2-1A launch vehicle successfully lofted the Foton M4 spacecraft into low Earth orbit (LEO) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan. Aboard the vessel were various material science and biological...
by David Todd | Jun 17, 2014 | On a Lighter Note
For those of us who have gone though with it before, we have sympathy for those kids at school and university now taking exams. For not only do they have to suffer Summer’s high temperatures, its seasonal afflictions such as hay fever, and its other normal...
by David Todd | May 16, 2014 | Add category, commercial launch services, JAXA, On a Lighter Note, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News
It used to be that whenever there was a space insurance conference being held, there always seemed to be a major launch or in-orbit failure at the same time or very soon after. That trend seems to be carrying on, for just hours after the delegates at the World Space...
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...
