This morning I got up early and was in work before 07:00 (what's the 'oh' stand for?...) to attend the TopSat launch event. This is a satellite that people here helped build -- more specifically, people in our department build a camera capable of a resolution of 2.8m from aheight of about 680km, which is pretty impressive given that the project cost just $22M, a fraction of the cost of most satellites with a similar function (taking photos of the earth).
Happily the launch went smoothly so the UK now has a brand new flying digital camera in space.
Oh, and we didn't launch it ourselves -- after a few presentations on the project we watched a live feed from the launch site at Plesetsk in Russia, where it was launched, alongside four other satellites, on a Kosmos 3M liquid fueled vehicle.
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