This resource challenges students to design an energy plan for an island so that it can become self-sufficient and to consider not only how but also why they might want to do that. Students must design an energy supply system for the island that does not rely on fossil fuels. As well as making decisions about how...

From the UK Space Agency, this issue of Space:UK magazine contains news and features on: * Meet the UK space scientists getting to grips with fundamental questions about the nature of the Universe. * The European Space Agency's first research centre in the UK. * How UK built satellites help rescue workers to save...

From the UK Space Agency, this issue of Space:UK magazine contains news and features on: * Europe’s ambitious satellite navigation system. * The tenth anniversary of the SOHO mission. * How seals are being recruited as scientists to help transform our knowledge of the ocean. * The discoveries of Mars Express. *...

From the UK Space Agency, this issue of Space:UK magazine contains news and features on: * Inside the UK’s rocket programme. * Efforts to counter any asteroid threat. * Europe’s space science missions. * How do planets get their names? * Space traveller’s guide to Jupiter.

From the UK Space Agency, this issue of Space:UK magazine contains news and features on: * 50 years in space and tracking orbiting spacecraft. * Upgrading Hubble and the next generation of space observatories. * Using Devon rock to help prepare for a mission to Mars. * Europe’s mission to monitor the Earth’s...

From the UK Space Agency, this issue of Space:UK magazine contains news and features on: * Europe’s satellite navigation system takes shape in Portsmouth. * Meet the scientists unravelling the mysteries of the Moon. * What has space technology ever done for us? * Space traveller’s guide to black holes.

From the UK Space Agency, this issue of Space:UK magazine contains news and features on: * The UK charity using satellites to help save lives at sea. * Images from TopSat. * Europe’s Martian rover. * Ask the experts. * Space industry career file. * Space traveller’s guide to the Moon.

From the UK Space Agency, this issue of Space:UK magazine contains news and features on: * International Polar Year. * Fifty years of discoveries at Jodrell Bank. * Meet the scientists searching for ET. * Space traveller’s guide to Saturn.

From the UK Space Agency, this issue of Space:UK magazine contains news and features on: * Meet the scientists searching for signs of life beyond the Earth. * The UK students who are reaching for the stars. * How does satellite TV work? * Did we really go to the Moon? * How will the spacecraft of the future propel...

From the UK Space Agency, this issue of Space:UK magazine contains news and features on: * The satellite investigating the Earth’s gravity and helping us to understand our changing climate. * A satellite to make broadband available to the remotest corners of the UK. * What are the chances of getting hit by an...

From the UK Space Agency, this issue of Space:UK magazine contains news and features on: * People working on the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and its moons. * Scientists helping to discover more about climate change and global warming. * A yacht team who will be using satellite data to help them as they race...

From the UK Space Agency, this issue of Space:UK magazine contains news and features on: * Space tourism. * Saving lives with space technology. * Mysteries of deep space with XMM-Newton. * The Earth’s changing climate. * Space traveller's guide to Mars.

From the UK Space Agency, this issue of Space:UK magazine contains news and features on: * Plans for missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond. * Tracking the world’s first spacecraft. * Satellites to help save lives. * Getting to grips with space weather. * How many satellites orbit the Earth? * Meet the engineer...

From the UK Space Agency, this issue of Space:UK magazine contains news and features on: * 2008 International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Glasgow. * How satellites are helping UK scientists monitor our changing planet. * Inside the UK’s once-secret early warning and space surveillance radar station. * Space...

From the UK Space Agency, this issue of Space:UK magazine contains news and features on: * Meet the UK space scientists and engineers at the heart of a mission to map the Milky Way. * How UK built satellites are helping to save lives. * The UK physics teacher going to the end of the Earth. * Working on the cameras...