§ Mr. Dalyellasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what work he is doing on sounding rockets.
§ Mr. David PriceSounding rockets have been used for some years for the space-proving of equipment developed under the National Space Technology Programme for which the Department is now responsible. During 1972 trials are being conducted with specially equipped Skylark sounding rockets to prove their use in the remote sensing of earth resources from space.