Is a Year a Good Time to Launch a Satellite?

A year would be optimistic and it also depends on whether there's any fundamental problem with the rocket. The UK is genuinely a world leader in building small satellites, they were all tech demonstration satellites. You've got to see the big picture and the big picture is in maybe 18 months time. Hopefully those satellites will be in space. There'll be the Mark II satellites and all this would have been forgotten. This will happen again ultimately.