11 October 2021
Blue Origin flight with William Shatner postponed until 13 October
...Perhaps one of the the most notable stars of TV and film, William Shatner’s career has spanned 60 years. He originated ...for the television series Star Trek. The series spawned a feature film franchise where he returned as Captain Kirk in seven of the ...
December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
... agencies. (d) India achieved it on a low budget – just $74 million dollars (Rs 450 crores.) Compare this to the cost of the film ‘Gravity’, which cost $100 million, and the price of NASA’s most recent mission to Mars, MAVEN, of $671...
March 2015
Satellite technology in newsgathering and disaster coverage
... news story added gravitas and a sense of urgency and importance to major events. To an industry used to dropping a roll of film in a mailbox and waiting a week or more for it to arrive at the studio, satellite was a game-changer. During the...
March 2015
Chasing comets together: the Vega project in the USSR and beyond
... characteristics, moved into orbit close to Phobos’ orbit, took measurements that were unique at the time and filmed Phobos’ surface for a period of two months. It was about to start moving in closer to Phobos. Considering the loss...
October 2015
Space debris, Kessler Syndrome, and the unreasonable expectation of certainty
... scientist Donald Kessler – the reality is not likely to be on the scale of these predictions or the events depicted in the film Gravity. Indeed, results presented by the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC) at the Sixth European...
October 2015
Baikonur, Kibo and beyond: Japan’s leading role in space
... with the probe was lost at one point. The dramatic story of Hayabusa was made into several films in Japan. From satellites to deep space In 2008, Japan enacted the Fundamental Space Act, and has formulated...
