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She jumped that high. go for take off. and there it goes, it's lift off for the plane. but this is just the beginning. the next step is to release the rocket and start a new era for uk space. godspeed voyager one. godspeed cosmic girl on this - historic european and uk mission to open space for everyone. an hour into the flight, the rocket fires its engines after being released from the plane. so far so good, but then this... it appears that launcher one has suffered an anomaly, which will prevent us from making orbit for this mission. a second engine burn had failed and the mission was over. ...

Capability from these smaller satellites, they're often way back in the line for launch on one of these bigger vehicles. often they might be launched into an orbit, which isn't ideal for them because they're just the piggyback ride, so now is the time to develop a dedicated small satellite launch service, and that's exactly what we're going to have in the uk. and this unassuming box is one of the small satellites heading into space on this first launch. it belongs to a start up company called space forge, which is based in cardiff in wales. their satellites are mini factories that will make ne...

So is there a place for the uk? this company, skyrora, is banking on it. their new factory is based just outside of glasgow, and they're building rockets from scratch. this is a prototype rocket. and as you can see, it's almost complete. and its launch will test the design, the manufacture and the technology to see if it works. if it does, the team will go bigger. over here are some of the components that will sit inside the larger rocket. it's called skyora xl, and these spheres are actually fuel tanks that will help it get into orbit. this is the nose cone that sits at the very top of the ro...

In small satellite manufacture. and satellites are used in almost all aspects of modern life, from communications to navigation to weather forecasting and crucially, monitoring climate change from above. but until now, british ones were shipped abroad to get into space. where we're seeing tremendous capability from these smaller satellites, they're often way back in the line for launch on one of these bigger vehicles. often they might be launched into an orbit, which isn't ideal for them because they're just the piggyback ride, so now is the time to develop a dedicated small satellite launch s...

In rocket science. among this class could be the engineers of the future uk space industry. they're taking a special interest in rockets because a launch is about to happen just down the road from them. i'm just excited because we might actually get the chance to see it over newquay, and there's going to be like probably lots of people there watching it. i am very excited about it, even though it's very late, i'm going to beg my mum to watch it because i'm really excited about it. and this is the rocket arriving in cornwall in october 2022. it will attempt to deliver satellites into orbit. if ...