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This is the rocket — it's 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 they're going to try and do the same in the uk. it's 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 it's been quite a learning experience, and...

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 to give us huge ca abili . , others in the uk to give us huge caabili . , ., ., capability. in term...

Yeah, there's 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 it's 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, that's 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, communications, navigation as well. that's tim peake. i'm joined now byjosh western, ceo of space forge...

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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 […]