Grant Munro

Purveyor of spacecraft mechanisms, proud Cumbrian, windsurfer, retired toe wrestler... (all views my own etc.)

[Femi @Femi_sorry]

Thanks @BBC for covering this. It's an issue that's really close to my heart and impacts millions of people across the country.
https://t.co/dedr6JYGU7

[Munro Advanced Engineering @AdvancedMunro]

Work started in earnest today. First stop Harwell... #space #testing

[Jim Pickard 🐋 @PickardJE]

Quote of the day is Heseltine on Boris:

“A man who waits to see which way the crowd is running and then dashes in front and says ‘follow me’....”

[RAL Space @RAL_Space_STFC]

Goodbye #SolarOrbiter! And good luck to the Spectral Investigation of the Coronal Environment instrument on board from us and the whole team who worked on it! ☀️@spacegovuk @AirbusSpace @STFC_Matters

[Grant Munro @grant_munro]

Great to see #SolarOrbiter heading off on the next part of its journey!

[UK Space Agency @spacegovuk]

UK-built #SolarOrbiter is about to leave @AirbusSpace in Stevenage ahead of its journey to Germany for testing. The UK is at the heart of this @esa mission to discover the secrets of our ☀️, due for launch in 2020 https://t.co/pZRj3hpsSF

[Grant Munro @grant_munro]

@BBCAmos @NASA_ICESat2 Presumably one of the soft-close ones...

[Thomas Zurbuchen @Dr_ThomasZ]

There’s only 1 scientific instrument on #ICESat2 – the most advanced laser instrument of its kind! This laser will measure height by precisely timing how long it takes individual photons of light from a laser to leave the satellite, bounce off Earth and return to the satellite.

[bob mortimer @RealBobMortimer]

Bobble hat repair shop

[Surrey Satellites @SurreySat]

We're getting ready for a double launch this weekend! NovaSAR-1 and SSTL S1-4 will lift-off on Sunday 16th September at UTC 16:37 on PSLV from India. More at https://t.co/7CeLQlah5o
@isro @CSIRO @AirbusSpace @spacegovuk @Honeywell_Aero @SatAppsCatapult

[M@ @mattfromlondon]

The first known inscription of London’s name was found in Southwark in 2002. It had endured over 1,800 years. The plaque marking its location (right) is now weathered and unreadable after 15 years.

[Kaptan Hindustan™ @KaptanHindustan]

Why women live longer than men.

[Andrew Jones @AJ_FI]

Amazing footage of Chinese rocket launch captured by orbiting Chinese video satellite https://t.co/F6YZNL7We9

[Shakespeare Replies @TheBardAnswers]

“So cowards fight when they can fly no further;
As doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons;
So desperate thieves, all hopeless of their lives,
Breathe out invectives against the officers...”

Henry VI, Part III Act I, scene 4

[Jim Al-Khalili @jimalkhalili]

Climate change is real and we must not give credibility to those who deny it. When there’s a round-the-world yacht race we don’t hear flat-earthers given airtime warning of the dangers of sailing off the edge. | Letters https://t.co/9AJOFxmT1X

[Grant Munro @grant_munro]

How it feels to...
...rely on nepotism?

[Duncan Golestani @DuncanGolestani]

The normal experience of someone choosing not to go to university & ‘jumping straight into work’. That work being journalism, her surname being Clarkson and her experience shared in her dad’s paper.

[Mark McCaughrean @markmccaughrean]

If you think this @Telegraph editorial on the UK x @GalileoGNSS discussion might be a touch simplistic, overwrought, & nationalistic, you'd be right 🙄

Worth reading some proper journalism on the topic from @WiredUK with comments by @bleddb: https://t.co/NxOh8JkxV0

[Clive Simpson @simpson_clive]

Govt’s #Galileo stance sums up #Brexit nicely - pull out of something that works well and then spend more than it cost you before to try and replicate it. Only the Doctor can save us. #DrWho #FBPE

[Margot Lee Shetterly @margotshetterly]

Katherine Johnson turns 100 years old tomorrow! Join the celebration at #Happy100Katherine. Grateful for her contribution to science & for the story she shared with the world. @HiddenFigures @NASA_Langley #hiddenfigures @NASAhistory

[Shakespeare Replies @TheBardAnswers]

@realDonaldTrump “he will lie, sir, with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool...”

All’s Well That Ends Well, Act IV, Scene iii