Fascinating stuff - I wish the British space industry well!

*UK needs to compete with NASA and Russia and space X. Asap.* Fly the flag.

@adriansmith5241

3 жыл бұрын

And China.

@vintagefilms6590

2 жыл бұрын

I would pay £100 a month out my own wages for this. Imagine if we all did the same....

Here we are in 2023 with the opening of the Cornwall space port 🇬🇧 🎉🎉🎉

Didn't expect to watch the full half hour as I browsed through to this video but it was a good watch

@InterviewSnaps

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks man!

@adriansmith5241

3 жыл бұрын

Same, I have been saying the UK space industry never gets a mention when people talk about UK trade when it should as technology such as satellites are some of are biggest exports. Great video I agree with this guy also plenty of places in the UK and also Australia to launch modern rockets.

About time we stepped up our game, we have the best brains in the world, after world war 2 we was totally spent for cash, we could not compete with USA and Russia, but know we are the 5th richest nation in the world, and of course we should be at the forefront of space know, as you know have India, China and a few more countries in the space race, the brains are there!!! The money is there!!! And we will be there soon!!! Si from UK

The empire will rise again, just too advanced for earth.

UK Space Agency has been around for a while. I mean there is plenty of space to launch rockets like use the dis-used airfields.

@tomgvaughan

3 жыл бұрын

The UK was going to have a mission to the moon after the Second World war, never happened though.

@hobbabobba7912

3 жыл бұрын

@@tomgvaughan The UK needs to get serious about international competition if it wants to get ahead.

@adriansmith5241

3 жыл бұрын

The UK has lot of land and islands overseas where it could launch rockets also.

UK needs to leverage micro nuclear plants and push propulsion. Working on technologies which dovetail with SpaceX Starship seem best way forward to me. We should avoid the slow dragged out development typical of Boeing and NASA and ESA and help finance home grown future technologies, even when they have a low probability of success but potentially enormous benefit . We must get maximum benefit from our intellectual property. Unlike projects such as Black Arrow which was a government enacted calamity. Carpe Diem

Maybe, anyone can expect that.

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One more point. if SpaceX owned Skylon, how fast do you think we would get to flight. I watched the last "Progress Report" from Skylon/Reaction Engines and must say it was the most amateur effort I have ever seen. Not so much as a mention of how to accelerate development and no sign of a project timing chart with key milestone tracking. I fear that by the time Skylon flies, it will have missed its window of opportunity. That engine technology was conceived in the 1980s for crying out loud. UK Space needs vision and determination rather than dither. This is taken straight from Reaction Engines Web Site: "SABRE-Powered Launch study conclusion for the anticipated 2030+ reusable launch market" 2030+ ! SpaceX will be on to Starship Block 20 by then and have landed a man on Mars. Elon is quoting launch costs of 2M$ for 100-150 tonnes to LEO and beyond. Rocket Lab(NZ) will have fully reusable smaller rockets. With current rate of development of Skylon, it will come to market just in time to be retired as obsolete, novel but uneconomical. Come on folks 3 shift, 7 days a week; not comfy office ours - get your backs into it! we're all routing for you, don't disappoint.