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January 2021
How the UK space sector is levelling up with support from its science facilities
... impact. Whilst this benefits a whole range of sectors, STFC’s track record in the space sector is particularly strong. STFC’s experience in space programmes spans more than 50 years – from leading concept studies for future missions; developing bespoke, innovative scientific...
August 2016
Polish Space Agency pursues task of developing country’s space expertise
... launched into space. In the same year the first Polish satellite, PW-SAT (with a mass of less than 1 kg), was launched into orbit thanks to cooperation between the SRC and students from the Warsaw University of Technology. The first two Polish scientific satellites were launched under the auspice of the...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
Space tourism took a great leap forward on 11 July, when Richard Branson flew as ‘Astronaut 001’ on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo suborbital tourism vehicle, VSS Unity. The Unity 22 mission, launched from New Mexico’s Spaceport America and piloted by Dave Mackay and...
February 2017
Protecting our space interests
... Coordination Committee (IADC), which published its Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines in 2002, is the prime driver on this issue and is to be commended for its excellent work. The IADC brings together national space agencies from 12 countries plus a regional space agency, the European Space Agency (ESA...
November 2016
Turning the Solar System into our backyard
...- all within 60 hours. People with non-space backgrounds were especially encouraged to participate and several leaders in the global space community - including entrepreneurs, academics, policy experts...participants from 18 countries attending the Bremen event and 43 participants from 12 countries attending the Shanghai event. The first edition of this format acted as a platform to launch several innovative early-stage space startups of which ...
September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
... and equatorial orbits The AEB has started the reorganisation of the activities of the space-related institutes in order to foster the country’s space industry. The Space Agency’s expertise provides the foundation from which to propel future engagement and growth for the national space industry. The intention is to design a Brazilian Space Industry Roadmap...
May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
... become China’s official ‘Space Day’. International cooperation in the programme’s first two decades was primarily technology transfer from countries such as the Soviet Union. Starting in the 1990s, however, China began to provide launch services to foreign customers. Services were provided through China...
September 2017
Call for Australia to head back into space
... was the first and only satellite launched from Australian territory, prompting some Australian politicians in the federal parliament to initiate an inquiry in 2008 into how the country had become ‘lost in space’ and what to do to reinvigorate the Australian space industry [3]. On 21 March 2017, the Space Industry Association...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... a law in 2011 banning NASA from collaborating with China and from joining the ISS. The Chinese commercial space sector has a high upstream concentration in launch vehicles, satellite manufacturing and more recently satellite internet infrastructure, the development of which is being driven by policy...
