LONDON : Britain's hopes of becoming a leading destination for the launch of small satellites remain intact despite the failure of the first mission, the country's business minister Grant Shapps said on Tuesday. Hours after the plan to launch nine satellites ended when Virgin Orbit's rocket suffered an an
LONDON : Britain's hopes of becoming a leading destination for the launch of small satellites remain intact despite the failure of the first mission, the country's business minister Grant Shapps said on Tuesday.
"Space is difficult," he told Sky News."The great thing about this technology is that no one was harmed, the pilots came back in the aircraft. It didn't work. No doubt they'll pick themselves up, dust themselves off and they'll go again." The rocket was successfully released over the Atlantic from a Boeing 747 that took off from Newquay airport in western England. The rocket reached 11,000 miles per hour before its system failed.An Italian-built Vega-C rocket mission failed after lift-off from French Guiana in late December and the rockets have since been grounded, while the European Space Agency's Ariane 6 launcher for big satellites has been delayed.
Shapps said he remained hopeful for the Newquay site as well as other potential spaceports in Britain.
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