This is a good place to start:
http://www.astrium.eads.net/en/in-uk/
There are some big investments in UK space. All relatively small compared to our US friends of course but good news for someone like yourself just starting out.
I have to say that I have heard frequently that the magnetic field was the major reason, though not from particularly reliable sources, which prompted the question.
Thanks all for the many informative replies.
Neither Mercury, Venus or Mars have a planet generated magnetic field and the lack of this is given as the reason why Mercury and Mars have lost their atmosphere to the solar wind. But Venus quite clearly still has it's atmosphere - why has it not lost it too?
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Do Physics. Doing engineering is fine if it is the thing you love above all else, otherwise keep your options open by sticking with a core subject like Physics. Good luck!
Hi all,
Just studying the early life of the Universe so here is what I know that I think is relevant to my question - protons were built from the imbalance of quark/anti-quark annihilation and a matching number of electrons were left over after lepton/anti-lepton annihilation imbalance...