Blue Skies Space, a space science data company headquartered in London, said its satellite was launched from a rocket in California.

The first private space science satellite set to study the impact of flares from stars has been launched into space and is now in orbit, the company behind it has said.

Blue Skies Space, a space science data company headquartered in London, said its satellite was launched on a Space X Falcon 9 in California at 6.45pm on Friday.

The company said the satellite, which is the size of a microwave and is called Mauve, is equipped with a microscope and will observe stellar flares and exoplanets.

Blue Skies Space will share the data Mauve collects to research institutions which are part of its subscription service, including Boston and Columbia universities.

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