UK

UK space program

SEE United Kingdom Space Agency UKSA ( United Kingdom Space Agency External link)

UKspace website www.ukspace.org

UK spaceport

Virgin Orbit, LauncherOne mission from Space Cornwall

Space Industry Bill [HL]

Inmarsat - Satellites

Shetland Space Centre (SSC)

Private UK Space companies

BAE Space Systems

Reaction Engines - Skylon , Alan Bond

Virgin Galactic

Virgin Orbit

The Spaceship Company (TSC Website)

CGI (Link to PDF)

Orbex

Skyrora kyrora

MicroSats

Surrey Satellite Technology (SST Website)

Clyde Space (Website)

Military

QinetiQ (Link to Space Website) , ISS Berthing and Docking Mechanism (IBDM)

UK nuclear fusion rocket engine

Applied Fusion Systems

The UK company Applied Fusion Systems are currently filing a patent for a new nuclear fusion rocket engine, creating by turning a small fusion reactor into a rocket. This technology could be used to run from a compact nuclear fusion reactor, a development which could pave the way for high speed, interstellar space travel.

Goonhilly Tracking station and also to be a Deep Space Network by 2020

UK Space History


Rockets

Skylark Suborbital; max altitude 500km for a payload of 100 kg mass.

Blue Streak

Black Arrow