The BSO looks to encourage British space activity and raise awareness of what the United Kingdom has to offer in terms of skills and services, as well as promoting space exploration to a younger demographic.

Your Voice in Space

Have your voice broadcast into space by taking part in our latest project, in collaboration with Bournemouth University.

BSO vBlog – Website Development Progress

Posted on May 11th, 2009

Our Chief Technical Officer, Rob Hawkes, runs through the latest progress on the British Space Organisation website. He also touches on the development of the Your Voice in Space service.

BSO Teams Up with Bournemouth University to work on an exciting new social project

Posted on May 6th, 2009

Welcome to the maiden voyage of the British Space Organisation blog. We’ll be using this area to keep you up to date with news relating to the organisation as well as the development progress of some of our projects.

If you are a little unsure about who we are and what we do then I would like to point you in the direction of our about page. You’ll find all you need to know there, and in the unlikely case that you don’t you can always get in touch with us. We’d be happy to help.

Now the introductions are out of the way I would like to talk a little about our most recent and exciting project.

The BSO has combined forces with Bournemouth University’s Media School to launch the Your Voice in Space project. The aim of the project is to send a very special probe into space. This probe will contain messages from the citizens of Earth compiled entirely from our website and a variety of social media outlets. So far we are working with YouTube, Twitter, and Yahoo! Answers to provide the functionality.

“Probes are old news”, I hear you say. You’d be completely right in saying that and this is why our probe will be fitted with a two-way transmitter that allows us to constantly update it with new messages. We’re also hoping to outfit the probe with a variety of cameras and sensors that will allow us to present you with some incredibly interesting data.

We won’t just be uploading any old message to this probe. Every so often we will be asking a single question on our website that anyone in the World can answer. Once submissions for a particular question are closed we will compile the results, display them on our website, and upload them directly to the probe to be immortalised in space.

This project has been built on the hopes that we will be giving people around the world a new platform to express themselves and compare with others. It has become all to common in today’s society for young people to only be aware of feelings and events in their own localised areas. We hope to change that.

As the project progresses we will update this blog. Watch this space!

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