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...
by David Todd | Mar 17, 2014 | On a Lighter Note, Science, Technology
In its previous Space Intelligence News incarnation, this news service noted that the British Royal Navy had won the Ig Nobel Peace Prize in 2000 (an irreverent alternative to the real Nobel Peace Prize) for ordering its sailors to save money on cannon shells during...
by David Todd | Feb 26, 2014 | commercial launch services, On a Lighter Note, Seradata News, SpaceX, Technology
SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk has posted an image of a leg to keep us space cadets interested. Sadly the leg concerned is not a beautifully appointed one attached to his lovely actress partner (and former wife), Talulah Reilly, nor one from his talented and...
