Alice Gorman and I had a fascinating conversation with Richard Garriott through Twitter last night about his privately-owned moon lander…
Breeden ‘SETI implications of gravitational assist via chaotic trajectories of binary objects‘ Chen How to Find the Apollo Landing Sites…
A-1 was the first French satellite, launched on 26 November 1965 from the soon-to-close Hammaguir launch site in Algeria (which…
Cosmos 2222 was launched twenty years ago on 25 November, 1992 from the Plesetsk cosmodrome. The 1900 kilogram US-K model…
Cosmos 312 was the fifth of the Soviet Sfera satellites (thus also known as Sfera 5), launched on 24 November…
On 23 November 1960 the TIROS-2 satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard a Thor-Delta rocket. Also known as…
Skynet 1A was the first of the Skynet family of British military communication satellites. The satellite was a 422 kilogram…
The “Injun” satellite series was developed at the University of Iowa by James Van Allen (and his team of “Injuneers”),…
When Mexico retired its first telecommunications satellites – Morelos 1 and 2 – they turned to their creators at Hughes…
The United States Navy has a natural interest in Solar radiation because of its impact on radio communications on Earth….