Hello and welcome back to British Science Week, Day Four.
Today we're going to be talking about space and how rockets and satellites can be used to solve a lot of
today's global issues.
So hi, I'm Abi.
I'm a first year graduate.
Hi, I'm Mo, I'm a second year graduate here at BT.
So the first video of the day is from BT,
and it will be showing the different types of satellites that are in use,
but also the services that they enable.
To bring this to life, today's activity will be all around building your own model diagram of these satellites to help
visualise their orbit around Earth.
In space seconds count, especially when you're talking about communicating between Earth and the International Space Station.
So in our second video today,
we're going to be hearing from Red Hat who are looking into advanced computing and ways to speed up
experiments in space.
So if you're watching this on the day of release,
don't forget to sign up to the live Q&A, and if you're watching it after,
scroll down and check out the replay.
It wasn't that long ago that space technology was seen as mere science fiction.
So it's really cool to see how the space technologies are being used here on Earth for a positive impact.
Abi, you've done some work as part of your university degree haven't you, on satellites?
Yeah, so we were looking at more scientifically
if you place a telescope on a satellite and look out into deep space,
you can observe things like black holes and collect data on that.
So in the following videos it's going to be really cool to see how we can spin this technology back around to Earth,
to look at enabling applications and services back on our planet.
So I hope you enjoyed Day Four.
We can't wait to see you tomorrow,
which will be Day Five,
and the last day of British Science Week will be all around Accessibility.
So we'll be talking about how all these great technologies that we have talked about today can be used
by everybody.
Hope to see you guys there!