Big Finish Productions releases the first Doctor Who audio drama in its Fourth Doctor Adventures range, starring Tom Baker and Louise Jameson. 
Big Finish Productions releases the first Doctor Who audio drama in its Fourth Doctor Adventures range, starring Tom Baker and Louise Jameson.
Big Finish Productions, under license from B7 Media, releases the second full-cast Blake’s 7 audio drama, kicking off a new Blake’s 7 “season” in audio form. Gareth Thomas, Paul Darrow, Michael Keating, Jan Chappell, Sally Knyvette, and Brian Croucher reprise their roles from the television series’ second season.
Having successfully demonstrated a working model of the Cygnus unmanned cargo spacecraft in 2013, Orbital Sciences delivers its first Cygnus vehicle under a new commercial resupply contract with NASA. The S.S. C. Gordon Fullerton (named for one of the earliest Shuttle astronauts, now deceased) cargo ship lifts off from Wallops Island, carrying nearly 2,800 pounds of supplies and equipment to the International Space Station. It will remain docked at the ISS for 36 days.
JAXA, the Japanese space agency, announces its plans to put the unmanned AKATSUKI space probe into orbit around Venus. Originally launched in 2010, AKATSUKI failed to orbit the planet in December of that year due to a critical engine malfunction and instead fell into an orbit around the sun, but mission planners have devised a strategy to use its attitude control engines to slow it enough to be captured around Venus when it intersects the planet’s orbit again. AKATSUKI, more formally known as the Venus Climate Orbiter, is intended to study the atmosphere and weather of Venus, a mission it will begin in December if it can successfully enter orbit.
Streaming service CBS All Access debuts the tenth episode of Short Treks, a series of 15-20 minute short stories set in the Star Trek universe. This short story sets up the upcoming new series Star Trek: Picard.