by David Todd | Jun 15, 2015 | NASA, Satellites, Technology
The launch of InSight Mars, a NASA mission to land on the planetary surface to study the interior of the planet Mars (InSight stands for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) will now have some co-payloads with it as it is...
by David Todd | Jun 14, 2015 | ESA, exploration, Technology
As he awaited the start of his tenure as Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA) on 1 July 2015, replacing the admired Jean-Jacques Dordain in the role, Dr Jan (Johann Dietrich) Woerner noted his enthusiasm for a planned lunar base and village on the Moon...
by David Todd | Jun 13, 2015 | China, History, Technology
In the same month that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and UK Prime Minister David Cameron attended the celebration of the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta, a bedrock of the democratic values and freedoms we know today, there was further evidence of...
by David Todd | Jun 12, 2015 | commercial launch services, Technology
Having already replaced Warren Boley Jr as its CEO in February, US rocket engine manufacturer, Aerojet Rocketdyne, has had a change of CEO again. This time it was, Scott Seymour, 64, who left at the beginning of June at short notice. He is replaced by Pratt and...
by David Todd | Jun 12, 2015 | Satellites, Space Insurance, Technology
At the Seradata Space Conference in London on 9 June 2015, this writer (David Todd) gave a brief presentation noting that launch reliability had remained relatively stable, and from Seradata’s serious anomaly dataset, that in orbit reliability was slowly improving –...
by David Todd | Jun 11, 2015 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata Announcements, Seradata News, Technology
The health and prospects of the Space Industry and Space Insurance market were the principal discussions at the inaugural Seradata Space Conference held in London on 9 June 2015. Cubesats dominate growth in numbers but there is little money in there Alan Perera-Webb,...
