Discover Space UK

The @DiscoverSpaceUK team have been busy preparing for the #Mach23 Rocketry Competition, and are happy to share that our annual Community Open Day @MachAirbase will be taking place on July 1st! 🚀 Tickets available here 👉 eventbrite.com/e/discover-spa…

A whole load of rockets launched from the UK last week as the @DiscoverSpaceUK #Mach23 competition was in full force🚀 We were there helping inspire the next generation of rocket scientists as the UK takes to the stars✨ #STEM

The #Mach23 Rocketry Competition is well underway - with student rocket launches yesterday and a Space Skills Workshop today, kindly supported by @Skyrora_Ltd @ScottishSpaceLC and @UK_CAA 🚀🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The Discover Space at Machrihanish Airbase Community Open Day is just around the corner 🚀 Join us at @MachAirbase on July 1st for a day of family fun, rocket launches, a planetarium experience by @ourdynamicearth, science trails and more! Register at: eventbrite.com/e/discover-spa…

We are delighted to announce that Discover Space UK has been awarded grant funding as part of the UK Space Agency LaunchUK Technology Investment Programme to develop a propulsion test and research facility at Machrihanish Airbase 🚀 Read more: gov.uk/government/new…

Working with @UofGlasgow, @DiscoverSpaceUK are developing the MachLab propulsion and space research laboratory, which will offer testing capabilities of Earth-storable and cryogenic rocket engines. 🔬🚀

Registrations for Mach-23 close today at 11:59pm! 📢 Make sure to secure your universities place in the UK's leading student combined CanSat & Rocketry Competition, by visiting spaceevents.info/mach-23 🚀 @MachAirbase @Exotopic_Ltd @UKSEDS

Registration for #Mach23 is open! To secure your universities place in the UK's leading student combined CanSat & Rocketry Competition, register at spacevents.info/mach-23 before 11/11/22🚀 #Student #Rocket #CanSat #Competition #Scotland @Exotopic_Ltd @machairbase @UKSEDS

The #Skyrora team had a truly fantastic experience at the scenic @machairbase conducting a successful second stage static fire test of #SkyroraXL! 🌞🚀 Thanks again to @DiscoverSpaceUK for all your support in this monumental endeavor! Learn more: skyrora.com/post/second-st…

Congratulations @Skyrora_Ltd on the successful static fire test of the second stage of Skyrora XL at @MachAirbase 🚀 DSUK were delighted to welcome Skyrora to the site to conduct the biggest integrated stage test held in the UK since the 1970s! 🙌 #Congratulations #UKSpace

New UK space research projects to be supported by SPRINT’s Mini Innovation Vouchers scheme sprint.ac.uk/news-stories/n… @spacegovuk #sprintforspace @unisouthampton @uniofleicester @discoverspaceuk @UofGlasgow

Teams also took part in hands-on rocketry and safety skills training for their future launch endeavours and public engagement as part of the Spaceport Machrihanish Community Open Day. We look forward to welcoming back more teams next year for Mach-23 - Watch this space! 🌟 (2/2)

We’ve had a fantastic week hosting University Teams from across the UK as part of the #Mach22 Launch Competition and Space Skills Workshop 🚀 Students designed, built and launched Rockets and CanSats (satellites within the dimensions of a can) at Spaceport Machrihanish (1/2)

The successful launch of Maverick… our winning rocket 🚀 🤩 #mach22 @UKSEDS @DiscoverSpaceUK @spacegovuk @OU_SPS @space_ou @OU_STEM @ouphysicsox @Mrsrachmitchey @MaddyKilmurray @JamieLBurton

@UniSouthWales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Rocketry team carrying out their final assembling and safety checks ahead of today’s #mach22 Rocketry competition at Machrihanish Airport, Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. All the very best to our team and all others competing today. Good luck all 🤜🤞 @USWResearch @USWEngineering

Brilliant to see 10 successful rocket launches yesterday as part of the #Mach22 Competition at Spaceport Machrihanish 🚀🌟 If you're coming along to our community open day today, make sure you tag us in your photos!

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The Virtual @mokfest goes interstellar 🙂. We will transmit the broadcast to the International Space Station from facebook.com/mokfest/ at 7.00pm Check out our Facebook page for more info on the event which runs from Aug 19 - 23. @1jigevents @CalMacFerries @machairbase

Our wonderful design team have been working away on some more colouring-in activities for you guys, so get creative, have some fun, and send them in once you're done! You know we love to see the! 👽👽 #mindfulcolouring #colouringforkids drive.google.com/file/d/1sxuBNQ…

Rocket Lab catches falling Electron booster with helicopter in reusability test (video) dlvr.it/RTXGl8