by David Todd | Apr 6, 2016 | Commercial human spaceflight, Seradata News, Space tourism, Suborbital, Technology
Blue Origin is proving the concept of reusability as it made a third flight using the same reusable New Shepard suborbital rocket on 2 April 2016. The flight reached an altitude of 103km (339,178 feet) – 3km further than the accepted start of “space” – where it...
by David Todd | Mar 31, 2016 | ESA, exploration, Science, Technology
Johann-Dietrich ‘Jan’ Woerner has been Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA) since 1 July 2015. After eight years heading German Aerospace Centre (DLR) and the German delegation at ESA, he succeeded Jean-Jacques Dordain in the leading ESA executive role....
by David Todd | Mar 23, 2016 | Science, Technology
The Daily Telegraph and the BBC Horizon programme have reported on a scientific development that is regarded as break though new detection technology: a method detecting tiny fluctuations in gravity. British scientists of the Porton Down military science...
by David Todd | Mar 22, 2016 | exploration, Satellites, Science, Technology
The Emirates Mars mission orbiter HOPE will be sent on its voyage initially by a Japanese H-2A rocket flying from Tanegashima in Japan. The spacecraft was booked on a flight to take place in 2020. The mission is owned and operated by the United Arab Emirates Space...
by David Todd | Mar 10, 2016 | Satellites, Technology
After Intelsat announced a multi year contract with broadband provider, Gogo, to provide aviation data services to passenger jets using the OneWeb LEO and Intelsat Epic GEO spacecraft constellations in February, Inmarsat has countered by noting that it expects to...
by David Todd | Mar 9, 2016 | exploration, Satellites, Technology
Speaking towards the end of the satellite manufacturers’ forum at Satellite 2016 in Washington D.C. in March, Paul Estey, VP Engineering, Manufacturing and Test Operations at California-based but Canadian-owned Space Systems/Loral, casually mentioned that the company...
