countdown to britain s first ever space launch. we are going to be live in cornwall, where the mission is taking off. let s start in brazil. security forces there have detained over 1,000 people after supporters of the former president jair bolsonaro stormed government buildings. this was the scene in brasilia the capital on sunday. thousands of demonstrators were involved. in the last few hours, brazilian authorities have issued a statement branding the riots terrorist acts of vandalism by criminals and coup plotters . and we ve also heard from brazil s president lula. translation: all those people who did this will be found and punished. they will realise that democracy guarantees the right to freedom and free speech, but it also demands that people respect the institutions created to strengthen democracy. let s take a step back and look at how we got here. in october last year, we saw a bitter electoral campaign between the incumbent jair bolsonaro and lula. and lul
yeah, there s a huge growing market for small satellites. these are kind of cube sats. the total payload may be about 300 kilograms for what this rocket can launch, and it s going into a very, very useful orbit. you might not think the uk is a very good place for launching satellites, but into a sun synchronous orbit, that s almost from the north pole to the south pole. that makes it a very useful orbit for things like earth observation, climate data, weather and also intelligence gathering, communications, navigation as well. that s tim peake. i m joined now byjosh western, ceo of space forge. and we are joined by the uk s science minister, george freeman. mr freeman, if i can start with you, how big a moment is this for the science and space sector in the uk? this is a huge moment for the uk space this is a huge moment for the uk space sector and space economy, for three space sector and space economy, for three reasons. firstly, space is the
front three reasons. firstly, space is the front tier three reasons. firstly, space is the front tier of three reasons. firstly, space is the front tier of the global race at the moment front tier of the global race at the moment geopolitically. huge investments as the sector moved from quite a investments as the sector moved from quite a cold investments as the sector moved from quite a cold war military, sovereign sector, quite a cold war military, sovereign sector, to quite a cold war military, sovereign sector, to something much more open and commercial, and we set out uk space and commercial, and we set out uk space strategy with a very clear attention space strategy with a very clear attention to be a leader in the commercial market and we very strong on the commercial market and we very strong on the science and the technology. tonight on the science and the technology. tonight we on the science and the technology. tonight we win the global race in europe