Afternoon all;

As I am sure you are aware UKRA has, traditionally, held its Annual General Meeting at the same time as a national launch event, although last year we held both the UKRA launch and AGM in conjunction with Black Knights at their BK Flamer event.

Due to very wet and windy weather the 2008 UKAYRoC fly-offs had to move to their wet weather programme. The teams each had to do a 5 minute presentation on their path to the fly-offs and the judging from this along with their qualifying flight was used to determine the 2008 winners. The winning teams were:

On Thursday 28th February the finalists of UKAYRoC were announced.

UKRA would like to congratulate all the teams who took part in the challenge and wish luck to the 20 teams who have go through to the fly-off which will be held on Friday 28th March at the UK Space conference.

The team who are through to the fly-offs are:

UK Space Conference (UKSC) 2008 will take place on 27-29th March at Charterhouse School near Godalming, Surrey. It aims to bring together the members of the UK space community to take part in lectures, panel discussions, networking opportunities, a careers fair as well as many other events. So if you are in academia, industry or government, if you are a student or educator, or if you are simply a space enthusiast, we look forward to seeing you there!

After a number of years of very hard work by Charles Simpson on behalf of UKRA (for mid power and high power rocketry) the following represents the outcome.

The New HSE Certificates of Exemption

The new Certificates of Exemption were signed by the HSE on the 4th of December, 2007.

UKRA has now secured the services of a new mailbox facility.

From today all written correspondence should be sent to:

UKRA
105 Thomas Way
Lakesview International Business Park
Hersden
Canterbury
Kent
CT3 4NH

Mail sent here will be forwarded to us twice a week which will improve turn around.