Tag: UK Space Agency
Sutherland Spaceport site questioned in new study
Doubts have been cast on the suitability of the site chosen as the location for the UK’s first major spaceport. The UK Space Agency announced last year that the A’Mhoine peninsula in the Highlands had been selected as it is the best place in the UK to reach highly sought-after satellite orbits with vertically launched…
Satellite-tracked trolleys is winner of UK Space Agency competition
Innovative ideas from young people to track abandoned supermarket trolleys by satellite and an app to find public toilets are among the winners of a space competition. (more…)
Appeal for Apollo 11 moon landing memories to mark 50th anniversary
People across the UK are being urged to share their memories and photographs of the Apollo 11 moon landing on moonlandingmemories.com, ahead of the historic event’s 50th anniversary in July. The public are being asked to submit their personal accounts of the occasion, which saw Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first astronauts to…
Black Arrow rocket returns to UK after 50 years in Australian Outback
The Black Arrow programme from 1969-71 saw the first and only successful UK-led orbital launch... An engineer who worked on the only British rocket to launch a satellite into orbit described seeing it again as meeting “an old friend”, as it went on display after almost 50 years languishing in the Australian Outback. The Black…
UK Space Agency on the hunt for young entrepreneur space ideas
Image: Press Association Young people are being asked to come up with bright ideas on how data collected from space can be used to benefit the UK’s economy, health or the environment. Those aged between 11 and 22 are being offered expert advice and a share of a £50,000 fund…
InSight Mars probe sends selfie back to Earth
NASA has released the first image of the spacecraft InSight from the surface of Mars, after it successfully reached the planet after almost seven months travelling through space. The Mars Odyssey orbiter relayed images of the spacecraft from its landing site, known as Elysium Planitia, at 1.30am GMT. The US space agency tweeted one photograph, showing part…
First images from British NovaSAR satellite
The Great Pyramids and Sydney Harbour at night have been captured in the debut images released by the first all-British radar satellite. Launched into orbit in September, the NovaSAR spacecraft can take pictures of the Earth’s surface in all weather conditions including heavy cloud, day or night. The satellite, which looks a little like a…
