Why did the UK’s first satellite end up thousands of miles from where it should have been?
BBC/Gerry FletcherArtwork: The half-tonne Skynet-1A satellite was launched in November 1969Someone moved…
Earthcare satellite captures first-of-a-kind cloud image
A never-seen-before space image of the interior structure of a storm cloud…
Airbus UK to build Vigil satellite to monitor Sun storms
47 minutes agoJonathan Amos,Science correspondent, @BBCAmosAirbus UKArtwork: Vigil would provide a side-on…
‘Grandfather satellite’ due to fall to Earth
Europe's pioneering ERS-2 Earth observation spacecraft will make an uncontrolled dive to…
