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Jul 8, 2021 · Prospero's mission was to study the space environment. Edinburgh-based rocket company Skyrora is issuing a challenge to find a way to retrieve the Prospero satellite. The object was the...
Jul 8, 2021 · Edinburgh-based rocket company Skyrora is issuing a challenge to find a way to retrieve the Prospero satellite. The object was the first and only UK spacecraft to be launched on a British...
Sep 5, 2011 · A group of scientists and engineers is working on an ambitious project to revive a unique UK satellite - still in orbit after almost 40 years. When the Prospero spacecraft was launched atop a...
Oct 26, 2021 · Live long, Prospero Bristol’s part in space triumph Fifty years ago Bristol’s space engineers scored a great success when the first British-made satellite was put into orbit on a British-made rocket – despite the fact that they knew they would have to find new jobs straight afterwards.
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Oct 28, 2011 · A group of space pioneers have celebrated the 40th anniversary of Britain entering the space race. At 0409 GMT on 28 October 1971, the British Prospero satellite was launched from Woomera,...
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Prospero was launched at 04:09 GMT on 28 October 1971, from Launch Area 5B (LA-5B) at Woomera, South Australia, on a Black Arrow rocket, making Britain the sixth nation to place a satellite into orbit using a domestically developed carrier rocket. [10]
