By Alex Marquardt, Published by CNN, 7 November 2022 Washington CNN — Ukraine’s fears that its troops may lose access to Elon Musk’s crucial Starlink internet service deepened in the past week after 1,300 of the military’s satellite units went offline, according to two sources familiar with the outage. The small,
By Clive CooksonPublished by Business Telegraph, 4 November 2022 The UK government’s failure to obtain guaranteed access to the satellite navigation systems essential to defence and critical infrastructure risks endangering national security, a cross-party group of MPs has said. The House of Commons science and technology committee on Friday criticised
By Sergiu Gatlan, Published by Bleeping Computer, 4 November 2022 The United Kingdom's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the government agency that leads the country's cyber security mission, is now scanning all Internet-exposed devices hosted in the UK for vulnerabilities. The goal is to assess UK's vulnerability to cyber-attacks and
Published by BBC Newsround, 2 November 2022 A remote bog in Scotland could become the Britain's first 'traditional' spaceport . The peat bog (which just means a soggy area of decaying organic matter - yum) is on the A' Mhoine peninsula in Sutherland, which is in the North-West of Scotland.
Orbex said Nov. 1 that construction of Spaceport Sutherland, which will host launches of its Prime rocket, will begin "imminently" and be completed some time in 2023. Credit: Orbex By Jeff Foust, Published by SpaceNews, 1 November 2022 WASHINGTON — Small launch vehicle developer Orbex announced Nov. 1 it had
Orbex Prime at Kinloss test stand. Pic: Orbex By Thomas Moore, Published by Sky News, 1 November 2022 The Scottish rocket manufacturer Orbex will build and operate the spaceport, creating around 40 jobs and investing £20m in the construction under a 50-year lease. A remote peat bog owned by Scottish
Unlike the rockets used by Nasa and SpaceX to launch satellites, Virgin Orbit will use a specially adapted jumbo jet - VIRGIN ORBIT/EPA By Ross Kaniuk, Publsihed by The Times, 31 October 2022 Protesters have targeted Britain’s first satellite launch to complain about the cost of living crisis. Next month
The Cosmic Girl landed in Cornwall on 11 October ahead of its mission in November Published by the BBC, 31 October 2022 Protesters have demonstrated against the first UK satellite launch, at Newquay Airport in Cornwall. Members of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) protested alongside Drone Wars UK on
