A date has been fixed for the launch of the first satellite built in Scotland. Glasgow company Clyde Space has designed and built UKube. The company is a market leader in small satellites.
The satellite will commence its journey to Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at the end of October. It is the UK Space Agency's first CubeSat mission.
The launch will take place into space aboard a Russian Soyuz-2 rocket in February 2014. According to reports of BBC Scotland's science correspondent Kenneth Macdonald, Clyde Space has revealed record sales figure for the first half of its financial year.
The leap in sales was announced by Craig Clark, chief executive officer of Clyde Space. He said that the UKube-1 nanosatellite is ready to be shipped to Moscow in coming days. It will go for a launch aboard a Russian Soyuz-2 rocket on February 10.
Mr. Clark founded Glasgow-based Clyde Space in 2005. He said, "This financial year, we have been profitable since the beginning. We expect to make a decent profit this year, and continue to do so now we can
-capitalise on all that hard work and investment".
He said that they are looking at new premises at the moment and have expansion plans.
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