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Wednesday briefing: Does failure to launch spell the end of the UK’s space ambitions?

In today’s newsletter: The first rocket mission from the UK didn’t reach orbit, but industry leaders explain why the burgeoning field is ready for liftoff – and what comes next

The Guardian - UK

Best of Interactives 2022

A look back at some of our most popular data-driven stories of 2022.

360info

How to see a comet coming close to Earth

For the next three weeks, you might be able to catch a glimpse of the comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF). Here's how

Salon

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SpaceX Starlink launch: Elon Musk beefs up the 'megaconstellation'

Elon Musks' Starlink is sending even more internet satellites into its giant low-Earth constellation.

Inverse

"We do these things not because they are easy but because they are hard" - Space Forge speaks of UK space race failure

An attempt to make British space history by launching a rocket into orbit from UK soil suffered an “anomaly” during the flight

Birmingham Post

Virgin space launch: What went wrong?

The UK’s first rocket launch ended in failure, but what happened to the Virgin Orbit space launch?

Evening Standard

Virgin Orbit and government investigating why first UK rocket launch failed

The second stage of the launch suffered an “anomaly”, meaning the rocket and its payload was lost.

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Boris Johnson erased from UK minister’s tweet celebrating satellite launch

UK cabinet minister Grant Schapps posts, then promptly deletes, an image in which former prime minister Boris Johnson has been awkwardly photoshopped out of.

ABC News

Richard Branson’s wealth drops $100 million after failed Virgin Orbit launch

Shares in the New York-listed firm tumbled 22% after Wall Street markets opened

Evening Standard

'Space is hard': What comes next for Cornwall's space race and the operators involved

The fact that the first UK space launch ended in failure is not the end of the story - it is just the beginning.

Birmingham Post

Scottish space sector 'inspired' by Virgin Orbit teams despite launch failure

THE Scottish space industry has been "inspired" by the teams behind the Virgin Orbit launch despite its launch ending in failure,…

The National (Scotland)

First UK rocket launch fails after 'anomaly' prevents it from reaching orbit

A Virgin Orbit plane, carrying the rocket, took off on Monday night from Cornwall Airport with hundreds of people watching and over 75,000 viewing a live stream

Chronicle Live

Spot the difference: Boris Johnson appears scrubbed from photo posted by Shapps

Gaping hole mysteriously appears where former PM once stood at UK space mission with business secretary

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson photoshopped out of Grant Shapps spaceport rocket picture

Source close to Shapps says: ‘Grant wasn’t aware anyone had edited the picture’

Evening Standard

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Evening Standard

Tech & Science Daily podcast: UK Space Agency to investigate failed mission

The UK Space Agency is going to investigate what went wrong with Virgin Orbit’s Launcher One rocket, which failed in its mission to send nine satellites into orbit.

The National (Scotland)

Top Tory minister deletes tweet after editing Boris Johnson out of photo

BUSINESS Secretary Grant Shapps has quietly deleted a social media post after it was pointed out that former prime minister Boris Johnson had been…

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson apparently erased from Business Secretary’s tweet

Social media users were quick to notice that the former prime minister appeared to have been digitally erased from a photo tweeted by Grant Shapps.

Inverse

JWST images turn up galaxy-sized sonic booms disrupting gas clouds in distant cluster

One of the James Webb Space Telescope's first color image targets has a turbulent inner life.

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Inverse

Look! JWST image may upend our understanding of the early universe

Astronomers peered into a James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) image. From this view of the deep Universe, they saw a large number of ancient galaxy candidates.

Inverse

Ice geysers could spew alien microbes into space from Enceladus' ocean

Astrobiologists may be able to find life on one of Saturn's tiny moons from space.

The Guardian - UK

UK air accident officials to investigate failure to get satellites into orbit

Teams behind historic mission describe tearful scenes but express determination to try again

Reuters

Britain's satellite hopes undimmed by mission failure

Britain's hopes of becoming a prime launch site for small satellites remain intact despite the failure of what would have been the first launch into orbit from western Europe, business minister Grant Shapps said on Tuesday.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Historic UK Rocket Mission Ends in Failure

An attempt to launch the first rocket into orbit from UK soil ended in failure on Tuesday, with scientists reporting an "anomaly" as it neared its goal. A Virgin Orbit Boeing 747 carrying the 70-foot (21-meter) rocket took off from a spaceport in Cornwall, southwest England, at 2202 GMT, AFP…

Daily Record

UKs first space mission ends in failure as 'anomaly' stops rocket from reaching orbit

Devastated space fans trudged home after discovering the UK's first orbital space launch had failed.

Al Jazeera

‘Anomaly’ thwarts UK attempt to put satellites into space

Rocket carried beneath the wing of a modified Boeing 747 separated from the aircraft but failed to reach orbit.

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