BARNSLEY laser expert firm Cutting Technologies now has its work up in space thanks to British ESA Astronaut Tim Peake’s latest mission.

The Principia Mission sees Tim and his crewmates work on unique experiments that can’t be completed on Earth.

Cutting Technologies was instructed by Raspberry Pi to laser engrave the fine details on two augmented Raspberry Pi computers known as Astro Pi.

Whilst on board the International Space Station, Tim will use the two computers to run experiments using the board’s sensors.

Read more in this weeks Barnsley Chronicle