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400 Marsquakes detected by UK sensors in one year

February 24th, 2020 Posted in News
The NASA InSight lander, which is supported by the UK Space Agency, has recorded 400 likely ‘Marsquakes’ in the first year of its mission. The seismic vibrations on Mars were detected by a set of silicon sensors developed in the UK for InSight’s S...
Solar Orbiter artist's impression (copyright Airbus)

Spacecraft launches to explore the Sun

February 10th, 2020 Posted in News
10 February 2020 – The UK-built Solar Orbiter spacecraft successfully launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida shortly after 4am today. The mission will take the most detailed images ever of the Sun and provide crucial information about how our sta...
OneWeb launches 34 satellites

OneWeb successfully launches 34 more satellites into orbit

February 7th, 2020 Posted in News
7 February 2020 – OneWeb, the global communications company with a mission to bring connectivity to everyone everywhere, today announced the successful launch of 34 satellites, aboard a Soyuz launch vehicle from the historic Baikonur Cosmodrome, K...
Teledyne e2v Charge Coupled Device (CCD)

50th anniversary of the Charge-Coupled Device

January 28th, 2020 Posted in News
28 January 2020 – From October 2019 through to January 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of the Charge Coupled Device (CCD) which has transformed the understanding of physics, life sciences, the Earth, our solar system and beyond, and enriched our l...
UKspace 2020 preview

What to look out for in space during 2020

January 28th, 2020 Posted in Thought Leadership
UKspace Chair Graham Peters is optimistic about what opportunities and developments 2020 will bring for the space sector in the UK and the wider international space community, building upon a series of significant advances and announcements in rec...