{"id":562894,"date":"2026-05-02T19:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T19:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/562894\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T19:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T19:35:08","slug":"king-launches-space-agency-project-on-final-day-in-bermuda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/562894\/","title":{"rendered":"King launches Space Agency project on final day in Bermuda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The King learned about Project Nova at the observatory on Cooper&#8217;s Island, which will oversee the installation of a network of telescopes across five sites to help track material in space, such as old satellites and rocket stages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He then opened a new Great Bay Coast Guard Station in St David&#8217;s, where he awarded operational medals to members of the Royal Bermuda Regiment and viewed new technology used to protect the island&#8217;s waters and marine environment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Later at LF Wade International Airport, a small group of dignitaries including Premier David Burt gathered as the King drew the visit to a close.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The monarch walked a short stretch of red carpet and spoke to leading figures including the commissioner of police Darrin Simons and leader of the opposition Ben Smith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shortly before boarding the plane, the King posed for a photo with assembled officials including police and security personnel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It followed the first full day of his visit on Friday, which included a boat trip with the coastguard, a cake-cutting event and a visit to the National Museum of Bermuda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also viewed artefacts from the transatlantic slave trade and visited a conservation initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The King learned about Project Nova at the observatory on Cooper&#8217;s Island, which will oversee the installation of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-562894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}