Is the UK space industry about to take off?
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- Опубликовано: 10 май 2024
- The failure of Virgin Orbit’s maiden commercial satellite launch from British soil, and the company’s subsequent filing for bankruptcy protection, may have seemed like a fatal blow for the U.K’s nascent space sector. But a range of companies hope to play a key role in the business of building, launching and operating satellites, a $281 billion industry which has been growing rapidly over the past decade.
Billionaire-backed companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit have been revolutionising the space industry over the last decade, which has seen advances in re-usable rockets, the deployment of thousands of small communication satellites and new launch sites opened.
To find out how smaller U.K.-based firms are looking to compete, CNBC visited a spaceport being built in the far north of the Shetland Islands, an established satellite-builder and a start-up aiming to see one of its re-usable satellites finally make it into space.
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These people are working hard & have strong determination. Don't hate them because of their salty media outlets.
Best wishes for UK space programme from 🇮🇳
Not just their media but majority British nationalists are also very arrogant. They claim to have built and fund our cryogenic engine and then they themselves cannot send 1 satellite to space😂😂😂
@@pritsingh9766 actually we have sent a satellite into space. My dad has met the person who initiated the launch :)
The UK can't even make High-Speed Rail, now they want to waste more money in space? 😂😂😂
LOL I was face palming myself earlier. They have gotta be kidding right.
I guess people have gotten used to so much corruptions in govt, that they no longer care.
High-Speed Rail was a tax payer funded vanity project, This is private industry
How about US?
At this point Kyrgyz Space Program is way more promising than this.
England Israel and Japan are the clowns of spaceprogramms.
They should seek help of their past colony 😂😂😂😂😂
No thanks, not interested in helping thieves 😂
Can't have colonial looting in space
If the British get to space the Russians will finally have a place to launder their money while in space
When the British defeats Russians in space battle the will colonize the galaxy.
British people are too woke for that.@@rickfreunde5957
@@rickfreunde5957 haha
No wonder they are bitter about India's space agency.
Not one person in the uk is bitter about anything india does lmao.
no one ever thinks about india lol
we ain’t bitter ?? proud if anything 😊
Why do a lot of Indians on RUclips comments keep on talking about UK and keep assuming things about what British people think? Not to be rude, but quite literally no one here is bitter or even talks about India's space agency
@@jamesf3532but comments show otherwise
I remember UK claims that Chinese spies have stolen their technology, I hope they didn't steal your space technology 😂
It's been stealed. So they don't have them anymore.
@@evergreenhills😂😂😂😅
UK have a long way to go to get up to the space
China is stealing technology from everywhere. As for their space industry they started by using rckets from their ICBMs which were taken from the USSR.
@@evergreenhillsmakes sense😃
Uk became underdevelopment . Even india is ahead . Must resolve home crisis , and another 10 crisis
wow someone who understands that India is far ahead in something other than trash on the streets is quite an improvement on a british mindset. But you are probably only an exception.
We had a rocket in the 70s and have a flourishing satellite industry. India is most definitely ahead in poverty.
@@Jeed92 Unicef still needs to go to India to teach them not to crap in the street.
@@Cartoonman154 India's poverty rate 16% & UK's poverty rate 20% as per UN... Indian economy is the fastest growing economy while UK's economy is going backward. Definitely UK is ahead in terms of genocide, atrocities, stealing, being the uninvited guest. Basically UK is homelander and It's Daddy usa is soldier boy
@@Cartoonman154 you had and india have
if talking about past then india and china were the richest countries not uk, why looking at the past better uk and present worse india, either live in past or live in present dont use timings to selectively put your arguments
Is this a joke?
nope
British space program ❗️
Aren't these words a joke already?
FIRST, BRITAIN SHOULD LOOK AT BRITAIN ECONOMIC CRISIS AND THEN THINK ABOUT GOING TO SPACE! LOL🤣🤣🤣🤣
Government problems vs private ventures. Should probably pay attention to the video pal.
Many underdeveloped nations have some sort of space industry. UK is very developed nation with very capable and diverse economy so the crisis that you are talking about is nothing that the British can't deal with
@@ulikemyname6744 UK has poverty rate of 20% which is way more than even countries like India with poverty rate of 16%... There's a rising homeless population in UK and UK's economy is going backward.
@@Judah_889 You understand that the vast majority of Indians live in extreme poverty right? 75% of women in India don't work so majoority of families live with only 1 income in alreaady one of the poorest nations in the world. The average GDP per capita in India is 5 times smaller than the world's average. The nation is ranked 132 below nations like Bhutan and Bangladesh. The nation is basically living in extreme poverty where even some basic goods and services either don't exist or are very very low quality
@@ulikemyname6744 anything else? There's something known as living expenses. And extreme poverty rate is now even less than
1%... This figures are from UN. And unlike UK whose economy is going down, India's economy is one of the fastest growing economy. And no one is competing with UK. India is a country plundered in every way possible by Britain for three hundred years.
Gathering in the cold to see a plane taking off and landing a few hours later is quite brave... and boring.
Not an easy feat..it will take time, let's see if they have the determination and perseverance
Sounds cool - Best wishes for UK space programme from 🇮🇳
Oh yeh another brown sepoy
Lol 5th largest economy India - Economy in recession = England@@Bullaslayerbsdkallah
Uk should solve its debt problem before going to space
What has a US company going to space got to do with the UK government?
Don't waste the money on vanity projects ! it will take years to catch up with others, and these startups are a joke !! UK is a poor country these days right ?
😂😂
It’s hard to call Virgin a startup.
UK will never ask ISRO to launch their satellites.... ego I guess.
Not true
ISRO has launched UK's telecom company's 33 satellites earlier this year
Uk is the biggest space superpower in the world.
SUPERPOWER UK
UK no. 1
😂😂😂😂
the UK has really fall back, both its space industry and its military
Shitland?
Englishtan
the day when they launch their first satellite without others help or boeing aircraft(american aircraft) india will be having space station, mars/moon sample return and also there will be a colony in moon with nasa. All this will be done by india without others help! we ISRO never got helped from other countries we did it ourself!
ISRO would congratulate any new upcoming space agency, cause they had faced tough times & sanctions in the past
Wish them well
These were the same Britishers who were mocking India's moon landing attempt. Look who's laughing now 😂
How do you know that these people were mocking India?
@@ulikemyname6744 by looking at names and ip address
@@ulikemyname6744did you come out of the cave today?
Or you were living in Supreme leader Kim Jong Un's kingdom till now and got internet just today ?
@@bineetgupta I guess you just installed your brain. Keep loading
@@ulikemyname6744 Video proof and comments all over RUclips prove how Brits mock India's space success. Not all Brits, but the majority. I'd share links if YT would let me.
As my American and Indian friends spoke to me a few months after Chandrayaan 3 Landing - we all came to the conclusion if you wanna reach the moon you gotta leave the British behind
Wait until you have another disaster and you need our money
Just googled it - India had requested the British government to stop handing them aid in 2001 and the so call aid is 12 million pounds a year to a British linked NGO and the commonwealth office programmes. I see no relevance in your comment as India does not need your aid ever since the 80s as most of her assistance came from the USSR in farming,science and healthcare. It seems like the aid is given of more of a bragging point for the British government which goes to show how desperate the British are to hold on to what was and no longer is (it was never theirs to begin with rofl) also to add insult to injury India is the 5th largest economy and will become the 3rd in about 15 years. The British will be left behind and unlike us Americans we don't have a colonial stain on the psyche of Indians @@seansands424
No chance
Every thing is possible and different but how can they compete with other space organisations such as India’s and china’s in cost efficiency?
UK has the human resource base to build satellites. It should focus on that.
Leave the launch business to ESA, SPACE X, ISRO and the likes.
I see a lot of people crying in the comments. As an indian i fully encourage UK to make strides in the space industry. Even india's private sector is catching up fast. Space is the future and don't let others tell you otherwise.
sepoy?
Brown servant spotted
To anyone reading this, please ignore the two people above me. Hating and holding on to petty grudges would only regress Humanity's progress to reach the stars. And instead capitalize on the message that the Original commenter wrote, working together and actively encouraging ourselves for the betterment of Humanity as a whole.
Tbh Space is not UK’s cup of tea.They are fine with finance and arts.They are just in the starting phrase rather then boom
yeah mate uk should probably focus on there economy before launching rockets its out of there intellect
@@ion8264 You realize these aren't government funded projects right? So are you trying to tell these private citizens what to do with their money? Lmao
😂You have to laugh at us Brits flexing the true amateur, back of a cigarette packet, garden shed, shoestring space program. Meanwhile Elon tomorrow launches the world’s biggest rocket with enough payload to put 10,000 Brit size satellites in orbit every week. Back to the shed boys 😂
hahahaah
yeah what a clownshow. First of all the idea was weak, and then the execution was even weaker.
😂
Just remembering that the two other players, US and Russia, has through each one's space industry history suffered many unsuccessful launchs. I'm sure UK will overcome all the hurdles it may face in the future, and become not just another player but will be at the forefront of it. They've been doing it for ages!
I dont remember many unsuccessful launches from Russia or India.
I don't know about Russia, but my country had few unsuccessful launches. Especially from private companies. Not from ISRO.@@Jeed92
UK was one of the first to make a space agency, but America stopped them
UK's glory days are long gone, it's just a shadow of what it used to be
@@Jeed92 stop applauding russian. Russia is just another USA who also had several unsuccessful mission with Humegruous budget. It's nothing similiar with indian space program
Should have used the Indian Space research Organisation's Vehicles to park the satelite it is reliable and cheap and advanced.
They use SpaceX
@@ulikemyname6744Not true
ISRO has launched 33 of UK's satellite earlier this year
@@akhripasta2670 They launched on
9 dec. 2022,
6th January 2023,
10th Jan. 2023,
8th Mar. 2023,
10th Mar. 2023,
18th May 2023,
20th May 2023
Why do you comment "Not true" when you haven't done basic research? 🤔🤔
@@ulikemyname6744 Not true Meant they do use ISRO which I have mentioned
@@akhripasta2670 I never said they didn't so your answer to my comment is irrelevant
"We spent a million so far building this concrete foundation". UK construction at saxavord
"We built tents at Boca Chica" - Elon Musk.
Virgin Orbit is based in California... and even ignoring that it would still only put UK in the same league as North Korea....
How about we get to "space power" before dreaming of "superpower"
NO
I heard some UK scientists were planning to develop a space-based solar panel technology
And sending the energy back to Earth in the form of microwaves.
The UK and others are thinking about it but I don't know if actual work or project approvals have begun or not.
In any case, amazing times we live in. I can't imagine the tech world in 2050.
@@shmookins I hope we'll have the space-based solar panel and nuclear fusion technologies ready to replace fossil fuels before 2050, because our global warming problem is severe
@@shmookins AFAIK, Japan is at the forefront of the "Space-based solar energy beamed back to Earth" tech vertical. Not UK.
they just need to steal money from others to make it happen
I don't think so, but only time will tell. Britain's in no condition to start a space program.
Lol first get a full term prime Minister
As a Brit who aspires to work with Elon Musk and establish a new, massive space station, this video caught my eye. The future of Spaceflight is bright thanks to Musk :)
Britain should fix their drug , knife crime and homeless problem before embarking on costly endeavours.
Concurrent activity is possible
@@Orbital_Inclination not possible when a country like UK has a poverty rate of 20% with a huge population of homeless hungry peoples
I thought the West doesn't fail 😂
If you never fail than you are not doing enough
UK should rather think of their growing homeless population and 20% poverty rate in the country instead of wasting billions of dollars in space.
Myopic. Rather increase the pot of money for everyone.
Perfect 👌
Private money spent by a US company in the UK is helping fight poverty in the UK... If you think about it.... :D
After the virgin flop, i wouldnt get my hopes up too much.
I hope so. I'd love to see US and UK astronauts working together. Something of science fiction...
😂
Sunak Rules!
😂 yea ok nope
No.
As A Caribbean🇻🇨 Space Fan, This Is Interesting.
When caribbean countries will unite to make a transnational rocket launcher for their own necesities ?
@@imanolaguer1234give us 10 years
🤣🤣🤣
So called great 😂
There first mistake was using Virgin.
UK should feed it's people fist before getting into such costly things. It is kinda sad how they need food banks to feed their people for a so called developed nation. No hate but UK does not knows how to do space projects at low price.
If I read your first sentence thats exactly what people accused India of.
But then I read the 2nd sentence and I realize that England is doing worse overall than even India which it looted and arped almost to extinction.
Guess theres something like karma afterall.
@@Jeed92 "England is doing worse overall than even India"
By what metric?
in technological advancements, poverty, gdp growth. I have more. But since you all will throw the rumor of building toilets, I won't even bother to argue then.@@untitled6391
But who is funding it? @@laurance506
@@Jeed92 UK is rich, developed nation with diverse economy and no idk who told you that the Britain is doing worse at feeding its own people compared to India.
Did he say “$45 million?!”
So.. not billions 🤷♀️ This is a kid toy then 🧸
India Mars mission cost is around 45 dollar.
Mangalyaan 2014, It was expected to work for week(made in India)
It lasted till 2021
@@akhripasta2670 45 dollars 💀, it was cheap but still more expensive than a starbucks coffee wtf
@@aryanaman7 *million
I will be there for the first successful launch 🙌🏽
Just getting started
Bullish on UK space industry! 🎉🎉🎉
lmao next joke
That was so funny 😱😱😱
@@Azriel172 thanks🤓
Newton cried heavily on that day...
Come on Brutish, you can do it.
You cant let a third world country like India beat you
@@seansands424 beat u? Lmao india is 1000 years ahead
Uk can't even launch their own satellite😂
How about UK with a crumbling economy fix their 20% poverty rate and it's increasing homeless and hungry population before doing such costly things which doesn't suit for a country like UK
While Thousands sleeping hungry in UK but Govt spending on space & Monarchy expenses.
Never....in the next 100 year's
Leave space to India little Britain 😅
No
Naaah .. never
UK no 1
no1 of what?
@@jetli740 its a meme. China numba 1 is the origin of the meme. Its about superiority complex.
In looting??😮
Without government money, it's very difficult to do.
Sure but they best start with flying kites first and study the importance of it needing a tail otherwise well you know it'll go nowhere.
Skylon is out sight n out of the topics.
Maybe try launching a satellite on your own first
Who'd have thought it, exporting all your industrial complex over 40 years means you lose all your innovation,didn't America use to go to the moon awhile back?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 we can’t
AMAZING 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
And why not travel the space , i say yes ❤❤❤❤❤
UK is economic, military and political peepskeaq, nation without anglosax...muslim and hindy country...LGBT world Ec. Forum experiment...what are you talking about!
Instead of wasting money in space first uplift yr 22% population get out of poverty...
😂😂😂 🇮🇳
😂yea
Go UK
No they can't.😂😂 First u hv to stop being puppet/lapdogof US, then we can think abt it.
The USA is the space master though...
Metallica said .....Obey your master !
Oh yeh shitland wants to go to space
Why not dream big and hope for better world
Well done 👏 congratulations 👍🏽💯🇬🇧🏴🏴 Grate, Love from RAJA NADEEM TAJ 🇵🇰 Living in Italy 🇮🇹🇪🇺🙏
Pen is mightier than sword. Don't fight. What did your teachers and priests tell you?
What is one of the UK's single biggest issues that prevents the UK from being competitive is their weather alone.
The UK will have a fraction of the usable launch days the U.S. has.
Not to mention states like Florida are much better positioned for launching space craft into space.
Sure, the UK can have a bit of a space industry for satellites.
But by no means can it compete with countries like the U.S.
The UK should do things for UK businesses. But if they have to try and compete to stay in business, then the UK will likely fail due to many circumstances out of their control.
The way this UK space program has to try to stay in business is to try to find a niche market.
But on a global scale, the U.S. is many decades ahead.
The UK has a solution for this problem: Ascension Island. This British overseas territory is perfectly placed near the Equator and has already both a space monitoring station and a RAF airbase.
The closest you are to the equator, the best. It is mostly the reason why the USA was launching from Florida and France is launching from French Guyana.
But yes, as you said both the USA and France are many decades ahead of the UK on space matters.
@@brunol-p_g8800 The only problem with that is that literally everything has to be shipped there by ship. Nothing is made on the Island. So from a financial point of view, it's not really feasible. Everything has to be shipped in across thousands of miles of open ocean. In Florida, everything is right there on site. Everything can be moved in by rail, truck, and ship. Plus the turnaround time is basically instant and won't take a month of travel time like it would with Ascension Island.
The location and weather I agree are far better than what the UK has. But it again just creates a whole bunch of new issues trying to compete with the U.S.
The U.S. has the holy grail of location, weather, transportation, manufacturing, expertise, money, etc...
That's why I hope they aren't looking to "compete" with the U.S. but rather are focusing on core UK-specific needs or wants.
Because they won't be able to compete with the U.S. in terms of running a business from a financial view.
They can be a secondary backup certainly though for doing much smaller launch applications and trying to find a niche for themselves.
Aircraft lift-off in bad weather all the time and this is an air launched system.
And they aren't competing with the US, Virgin is a US company, they are just selling launch sites to various companies.
First fix your 20% poverty rate and so many homeless and hungry population before dreaming of being superpower
@@Judah_889@AnthonyDeMello958 All of the EU, Canada, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Iceland, the UK, and more already recognize the U.S. as the world's sole superpower. All countries have poverty. And countries like the UK, for example, have a fast-growing poverty rate due to Brexit.
So, the U.S. doesn't need to dream about being a superpower when it already is on the world stage.
When it comes to space exploration, the U.S. leads the world.
Also, the subject isn't about the U.S. being a superpower but whether or not the UK can compete against the U.S. in the space program. Hence, I said it isn't really possible since the U.S. has geographical, industrial, budget, and other advantages.
So the UK is better off finding a niche market and doing things for its own benefit and just trying to help with advancing science in general for the whole world's benefit.
The UK can play a role. But it shouldn't be looking at it as a competitive thing so much.
Certainly it Can lift above the ground levels , to Fly high Immediately after Looking the Great Oceans below to keep on Glory of Great Drive . In The Oceans to Enjoy the Pleasant moment of 21st Century to get Nobel prise and Championship ❤😂 .
If they embrace commercial space it will take off.
💪💪💪
5 th rank nation . Whit a lot of sins . Whitout character . A colony of usa
Amazing they didn"t mention rocketlab in this video. They could buy in an existing successful model which would probably be cheaper??
@@mehakdeepsingh4849NZ tech originally
LOL. THERE'S NO ACTUAL MARKET. Demand is mostly fixed and very limited. CNBC: "We're only cheerleaders; we have no idea how economics actually works. Its why we own the Crash of 2008."
The UK manufactures nearly half of all small satellites, and around 25% of larger weather and intelligence ones. That's a large existing market that would probably appreciate not having to pay to ship their kit half way around the world to a launch site.
Britsh get to space by Dyson？
Go UK. Love from India.
Go UK to India u mean. Go to India and learn how to do it so it works and costs only 10% of what they do.
Another sepoy spotted
@@Jeed92keep crying
@@wrldedits1999 keep seething britisher
Likewise, from UK. These other comments are a bit weird.
Ah na ㅡㅡ why is this video so difficult.. I can't understand anything .... where did my two years that studied english go? 조쿠렌치상
watch more videos with subtitles it will slowly get better
@handa7717 there are so many words that I dont know... that's why...
We can't even build HS2. Stop joking.
Buowling pich mumbai knight day sunny ☀️ bating pich chaising imposibel that is cricut Knowleg base 🌎🇸🇦🇮🇳
Why even try? SpaceX is going to dominate
From here, US will have a hard time from both China and India. Let me remind you. After 2030, ISS will stop working and Tiangong will be the only space station in space till 2035. During the end of 2035, India will send it's own Space station in space. Then it will be all about India and China in the space war.
Finally the uk have a space❤❤
IN YOUR DREAMS🤣🤣🤣
@@politics4304 Probe on Mars and we had a rocket program in the 70s.
@@Cartoonman154"Mars"
Beagle 2 is a Failed mission.
And the rocket used is Russian (Soyuz) & mainland European contractor (ESA) .
Launch pad: Russian & Launch Site: Kazakhstan
@@politics4304 not anymore
Don't forget about the Chinese space program; I hope the West remains on the forefront of space development
West = USA ( nothing else, others are just minions piggybacking on NASA )
East = China, India and Russia all working separately on their own
Only 1 party in west is in the scene, there are 3 in the East
More parties = more chance of new ideas and development poping up somewhere
East is going to be in the forefront
China can't move to the forefront and still be copying everyone else... ;)
UK 😂😂😂😂😂😂 British 😂😂😂😂 space 😂😂😂
Yeah Britain can be a big player in the future. The British has advanced space sector but they don't have launch solutions. They mostly rely on the Americans nowadays to launch their stuff in space but other players were Russia (before the war) and India (before SpaceX replaced them as cheaper and more reliable side)
The cant tell the difference between Male & Female on Earth. How about night & day Or Garavity and Zero Gravity in space….
❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Doesn’t even make a tin can , wants to be a space power LMAO. This little island is a joke !!
I like how they exploited india and China but still don't have even 10% of space technology as them
Based on what?
@@ulikemyname6744based on common sense
Not even 1%
China and India both nation softly landed their probe on the moon...
Uk don't even have a proper rocket 😂or s.A
@@ulikemyname6744 Based on the fact that India and China have reached Moon and Mars whereas UK can't even launch a single human hair to orbit without relying on USA or India or EU. Come back when you manage to build your own cryogenic rocket engine.
@@death_parade And the question is why do they even need to build that engine? I'm amazed by the logic of people like you, truly!