British Space Programme

[Werner Presber]

"Above us, travelling at 17,000 miles per hour, a tiny piece of British  
Science Fiction orbits the Earth every one hundred minutes. The final  
child of the British Space Programme,  a satellite launched from a  
rocket called Black Arrow in the parched heat of the Austrailian desert  
in 1971, Prospero is a tiny refugee, a little ball of metal and  
electronics, an orphan of a future that never happened. (...)"

read: Prospero: The Little Satellite That Could
via Archeology of the Future:

http://archeologyofthefuture.blogspot.com/2006/04/prospero-little- 
satellite-that-could.html

read also: The buildings of the Royal aircraft establishment

http://www.savebritainsheritage.org/farnborough/buildings.htm
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