British space programme | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:56 1 Origins
00:03:29 2 British satellite programmes (1959–present)
00:03:41 2.1 Early satellite programmes
00:04:14 2.2 Military satellite programmes
00:04:59 2.3 Intelligence satellite programmes
00:06:29 2.4 Independent satellite system
00:06:59 3 British space vehicles (1950–1985)
00:09:27 4 National space programme (1985–2010)
00:10:44 5 United Kingdom Space Agency (2010 – present)
00:11:25 5.1 Reaction Engines Skylon
00:12:12 5.2 2011 budget boost and reforms
00:12:46 5.3 Commercial spaceport competition
00:13:39 5.4 Space Industry Bill 2017–2019
00:14:06 6 Commercial and private space activities
00:14:39 6.1 Project Juno
00:16:12 6.2 Surrey Satellite Technology
00:16:39 6.3 Virgin Galactic
00:17:09 7 British contribution to other space programmes
00:18:02 8 British astronauts
00:22:05 9 In fiction
00:24:11 10 See also



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The British space programme is the UK government's work to develop British space capabilities. The objectives of the current civil programme are to "win sustainable economic growth, secure new scientific knowledge and provide benefits to all citizens."The first official British space programme began in 1952. In 1959, the first satellite programme was started, with the Ariel series of British satellites, built in the United States and the UK and launched using American rockets. The first British satellite, Ariel 1, was launched in 1962.
The British space programme has always emphasized unmanned space research and commercial initiatives. It has never been government policy to create a British astronaut corps. The British government did not provide funding for the International Space Station until 2011.During the 1960s and 1970s, a number of efforts were made to develop a British satellite launch capability. A British rocket named Black Arrow did succeed in placing a single British satellite, Prospero, into orbit from a launch site in Australia in 1971. Prospero remains the only British satellite to be put into orbit using a British vehicle.
The British National Space Centre was established in 1985 to co-ordinate British government agencies and other interested bodies in the promotion of British participation in the international market for satellite launches, satellite construction and other space endeavours.
In 2010, many of the various separate sources of space-related funding were combined and allocated to the Centre's replacement, the UK Space Agency. Among other projects, the agency is funding a single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane concept called Skylon.