Scotland in Space
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Welcome! This discussion was started up to highlight the opportunities, locally and nationally, arising from the RAF Lossiemouth base. The UK is a world leader in various satellite fields, particularly small satellites, and yet the UK does not have a launch base of its own. New rocketplane technologies are opening the way to lower-cost launches for satellites and for passengers, and the UK government has identified the facilities of Lossiemouth as a prime resource.
In Scotland, various small and highly innovative companies are developing in the space sector, with backing from the Scottish government. The sector is still small, but is already responding to the new climate of opportunity.
A big shift is getting under way in the US, where private companies are designing and building their own rockets and rocketplanes, and looking to supply the International Space Station and to develop space tourism. This is a radical change, in which to a certain extent small can be beautiful. So what are the opportunities for Scotland? And how can Scotland act to take them up?
Welcome to the discussion!
In Scotland, various small and highly innovative companies are developing in the space sector, with backing from the Scottish government. The sector is still small, but is already responding to the new climate of opportunity.
A big shift is getting under way in the US, where private companies are designing and building their own rockets and rocketplanes, and looking to supply the International Space Station and to develop space tourism. This is a radical change, in which to a certain extent small can be beautiful. So what are the opportunities for Scotland? And how can Scotland act to take them up?
Welcome to the discussion!
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Howie Firth commented on the group Science, Space and Stars's wall:To start ideas flowing, we've produced three background papers and a video. The video, on the innovative Scottish satellite company Clyde Space who've become a world leader, is accessible from the video section of the site. Information about the ...
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Howie Firth commented on Science, Space and Stars's picture.
Professor George Fraser's lecture generated many questions and much discussion afterwards, with the wealth of information he provided on the extent of the impact of space in our lives, and also the scale of application of techniques pioneered in the ...
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Howie Firth commented on Science, Space and Stars's picture.
How a British rocket could launch a satellite. Professor Fraser described how a carrier aircraft would take a two-stage rocket up to around 50,000 feet for an air-launch, with the second stage going on to insert the satellite into orbit.
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Howie Firth commented on Science, Space and Stars's picture.
A satellite launch from Lossiemouth, said Professor Fraser, would head north over open sea all the way to the Arctic on its way up to polar orbit. he described how polar-orbiting satellites, whose path sweeps over the whole earth 16 times a day, are ...
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Howie Firth commented on Science, Space and Stars's picture.
Space is an industry generating over £6 billion a year for the UK economy, said Professor George Fraser, Director of Leicester University's Space Research Centre, to a Moray audience on 9 March. Regions are becoming aware of its potential, with for ...
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by Howie Firth 2 years agoTo start ideas flowing, we've produced three background papers and a video. The video, on the innovative Scottish satellite company Clyde Space who've become a world leader, is accessible from the video section of the site. Information about the CubeSats that they specialise in, the remarkable new satellite format that is predicted to do for satellites what the Apple machine did for computers is available through the forum 'Satellites for the Community'. Also through the forum you can find information about the new thinking in economic development which highlights the importance of people and place and 'A Climate for Innovation'. And we have an example of an innovative approach in turning as problem - plastic waste - into an opportunity to join in the development of a new industry: wood plastic composites.
