ESA astronaut Tim Peake rides the Darwin Autonomous Shuttle

We were honoured to welcome British astronaut Tim Peake aboard the Darwin Autonomous Shuttle in May!

Tim has plenty of experience with high-tech vehicles from his time as a European Space Agency astronaut. In late 2015 he travelled on a Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station, where he spent six months. The Darwin Autonomous Shuttle couldn’t take him into space, of course, but we hope he enjoyed its self-driving capabilities as it took him around Harwell Science and Innovation Campus.

Tim was filming a segment for Secrets of Our Universe with Tim Peake, a Channel 5 documentary series about space. Specifically, he was looking at satellites and their applications on Earth. By making use of both satellites and terrestrial networks, the Darwin Autonomous Shuttle can remain connected almost anywhere, and it does this with the help of Darwin’s ubiquitous communications technology.

To see the Darwin Autonomous Shuttle in action and learn more about satellites, you can watch the episode ‘Living in Space’. The episode will be on Channel 5 at 9pm on Tuesday 3 October. After airing, you’ll find it available for streaming on My5.

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