Blue Streak liquid fuel rocket engine, Rolls Royce RZ2.
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Blue Streak Engine
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Astrium Mars Rover
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Rocket Cleaning at Starchaser
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Steve Bennett, founder and owner of Starchaser Industries washes the forthcoming Nova 2 rocket in preparation for a public tour. With funding in place, Steve hopes for a launch in 2013.
Westcott – Rocket Testing
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Night-testing at Westcott, 8/11/11. A beautiful sight – British rocketry is back! A six-second burn of Reaction Engines new LAPCAT engine, at Airborne Engineerings rocket test facility.
Black Arrow Tie
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Jim Scraggs – Black Arrow Programme Manager’s Tie To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the successful launch of Black Arrow and its payload ‘Prospero’ from Woomera, artist Katayoun Dowlatshahi catalysed a fantastic day at High Down, Isle of WIght, to commemorate the achievement. The only satellite to be launched by a British rocket, Prospero is still...
Space Council
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Space Leadership Council meeting at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). Chaired by David Willets MP (Minister for Universities and Science) alongside key players within the space-sector, the council aims to promote the UK’s space industry and scientific excellence in space research.
Ascender
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David Ashford, Managing Director of Bristol Spaceplanes A fascinating morning spent with David, MD of Bristol Spaceplanes. Currently an 8 foot remote -controlled model of Ascender (shown here) is in production, and could be ready for its inaugural flight later this year.
Patrick Moore
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Sir Patrick Moore, photographed at ‘Patrick’s Picnic’, an afternoon organised by the British Interplanetary Society. A great day out, I was fortunate enough to have the odd sporadic chat with Patrick; the highlight being a conversation in which he refuted Stephen Hawkings assertion that we may not be wise to approach life if it were to...
SSTL
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Wooden Wonder. SSTL (Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd) amid the build of a new satellite. Technicians complete basic wooden mockups prior to the final component construction.
SSTL – Surrey Satellites
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Component ‘Dishwasher’. SSTL (Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd) Terry Scantlebury, Flight Assembly Technician SSTL (Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd)
SSTL – Surrey Satellites
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Rocket Festival
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Rocket Festival
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Space Conference
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Space Conference
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Galaxy of delegates at the 2011 UK Space Conference, Warwick. The UK’s first Space Conference, in its modern guise at Warwick University – an event bringing together 500 space industry delegates, and opportunity for me to expand this project further, behind the scenes of the British Space industry.
S.T.R.I.C.T
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S.T.R.I.C.T Engine in its static firing bay on site J2 at Airborne Engineering. This engine uses an ‘ED’ (Expansion Deflection) nozzle, shown here dead on to the Pintel.
Airborne
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James Macfarlane, of Airborne Engineering, looks onto the test bay of S.T.R.I.C.T, the latest test engine in the development of Skylon.
Prospero
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Phil Guttridge, Head of Electronic Engineering. Mullard Space Science Laboratory. Phil here wears a near-full scale model of Prospero, the only satellite to have been launched by a British rocket; Black Arrow. Phil is currently involved in a search for the ‘launch codes’ to re-activate Prospero – it’s still in orbit!
Gerry Webb – CST
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Gerry Webbs Tie & Rolls Gerry, Director of Commerical Space Technologies (CST) here at a visit to Westcott (J Site), home to Airborne Engineering (AEL) Look out for an interview with Gerry in the near future…
H.O.T.O.L
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Hotol, from the Skylon Presentation at Eastercon 2011, by Bob Parkinson. Hotol; rather affectionately known as ‘father of Skylon’ was a stunning glimpse of what was possible if we’d had the right backing. A typical government backout in funding saw the project draw to a close. Skylon solves the issue via private investment.
Space Artist – Dave Hardy
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Dave Hardy Space Art exhibited at Eastercon, Birmingham 2011. This piece was originally commissioned for Thomas Cook! I was lucky enough to put a few questions to Dave: What’s the story behind the image? It’s quite a long story actually! After my book with Bob Shaw, ‘Galactic Tours’, came out in 1981, Thomas Cook adopted it and I became...
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