Page 20 - Space Sector News Today

Its been a huge team effort to get to this place. we are the guinea pig. it is the first time any of us have done this. so its been quite a learning experience, and its something that were really proud of, but something we want to look at how do we make it more efficient going forward and share the lessons learned. but the uks been here before. 50 years ago, britain saw the space sector as a big opportunity and started a programme called black arrow. a rocket was built here and tested in the isl...

Launcher one and final preparations for its launch are under way. after it detaches from the plane, it fires its own engines and begins its journey to space. release, release. copy. release, release. until now, the company behind the rocket, virgin orbit, has been carrying out these launches from california. the drop happens at 35,000 feet, but now theyre going to try and do the same in the uk. its been a huge team effort to get to this place. we are the guinea pig. it is the first time any of u...

Were really proud of, but something we want to look at how do we make it more efficient going forward and share the lessons learned. but the uks been here before. 50 years ago, britain saw the space sector as a big opportunity and started a programme called black arrow. a rocket was built here and tested in the isle of wight before being taken to australia and eventually launching a british satellite into space. but with growing costs, the programme was scrapped. the government decided it was ch...

BHOPAL, January 21 : Union Minister for Science & Technology, Dr Jitendra Singh today inaugurated the 4-day India International Science Festival (IISF) here, organised by the union Ministry of Science & Technology. Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Shivraj Singh Chauhan presided over the opening ceremony. In his inaugural address, Dr. Jitendra Singh said, India is preparing for a quantum jump in “Quantum Technology”, which will define the world’s future and offer practi...

Excelsior Correspondent BHOPAL, Jan 21 : Union Minister for Science & Technology, Dr Jitendra Singh today inaugurated the 4-day India International Science Festival (IISF) here, organised by the Union Ministry of Science & Technology. Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Shivraj Singh Chauhan presided over the opening ceremony. In his inaugural address, Dr. Jitendra Singh said, India is preparing for a quantum jump in “Quantum Technology”, which will define the world’s fut...

This is the rocket — its called launcher one and final preparations for its launch are under way. after it detaches from the plane, it fires its own engines and begins its journey to space. release, release. copy. release, release. until now, the company behind the rocket, virgin orbit, has been carrying out these launches from california. the drop happens at 35,000 feet, but now theyre going to try and do the same in the uk. its been a huge team effort to get to this place. we are the guinea ...

Wonderful to have you on the programme and just to say this is pretty exciting quite a moment. it is a piece of history for both uk and for europe. it is actually the first launch from in europe. in the whole history of the space age. i think we are setting a really important benchmark here. we are giving people much more flexible access to space by having launch sites here and adding others such as in shetland and probably several others in the uk to give us huge capability. in others in the uk...

Yeah, theres a huge growing market for small satellites. these are kind of cube sats. the total payload may be about 300 kilograms for what this rocket can launch, and its going into a very, very useful orbit. you might not think the uk is a very good place for launching satellites, but into a sun synchronous orbit, thats almost from the north pole to the south pole. that makes it a very useful orbit for things like earth observation, climate data, weather and also intelligence gathering, commun...

He says,

NAGPUR, January 3 : Interacting with media on the sidelines of the Indian Science Congress here today, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology & Earth Sciences, Dr. Jitendra Singh said, India is determined to meet global benchmarks to be able to play a global role in the years to come and realise the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Dr Jitendra Singh said that the focal theme of this year’s Science Congress as “Science & Technology […]