George Freeman MP, Minister for Space at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, said: Due to take off from 2025, the new rocket is designed to offer a reliable, cost-effective and “easy-to-use” solution for commercial launches. LiteBIRD is one of a growing number of space partnerships between UK and Japan.ĭuring this week’s International Astronautical Congress in Baku in Azerbaijan, the UK also committed £1.7 million from its £20 million International Bilateral Fund to support Viasat’s in-orbit telemetry relay service, In-Range, for use on Mitsubishi Heavy Industry’s H3 launch vehicle. The UK Space Agency intends to invest a total £17 million throughout the life of the mission, slated for launch before 2030. Production of the telescopes’ lenses and filters by Cardiff University, which is the only institution in the world with the expertise needed to make them. The UK Space Agency has committed an initial £2.7 million to the mission, which will fund:Ī group of UK scientists to design elements of LiteBIRD’s highly specialised science instruments and analyse their findings, and, The Japanese-led LiteBIRD mission (‘Light satellite for the study of B-mode polarization and Inflation from cosmic background Radiation Detection’) will analyse variations in light left over from the Big Bang, to test whether the current theory of how our Universe expanded immediately after it was formed (cosmological inflation theory) is correct. The UK will play a crucial role in a landmark mission to trace patterns in the light from space, looking back almost to the Big Bang, bringing us closer to understanding the nature of our Universe and how it began.
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