July 2014
A revitalised space sector reduces costs and makes space data more accessible
More than half a century into the space age, commercial drivers are beginning to supplant military and geopolitical considerations in the exploitation of near-Earth space. How should we adapt our traditional institutions to benefit from and ...
March 2015
Space weather: the public & policy
... UK it has been included in the National Risk Register since 2012, and is subject of ongoing work, across government, academia and key industries, not only to mitigate that threat through a mixture of measures, including forecasting of space weather...
June 2015
Beagle 2: discovering the lost Mars lander
... 2003. Beagle 2 hitched a ride to Mars on ESA’s Mars Express mission and was a collaboration between industry and academia. It would have delivered world-class science from the surface of the Red Planet. Many UK academic groups...
June 2015
Lunar Mission One: crowdfunding endeavour and drilling on the Moon
... has the engineering capability to deliver, plus a supply of investment capital limited only by the risk of financial return. Academia has new scientific and technical ideas. Commerce has business ideas, for both other business (B2B...
June 2015
Bringing technology down to earth
...2013. The group, which included Swedish astronaut Christer Fuglesang, was made up of 14 representatives from Swedish business, academia, and entrepreneurial communities. I led the delegation, and we were invited to meet with experts in various fields...
October 2015
Growing space businesses in the UK: from incubation centres to public funding
... its shores Many of the most successful commercial space developments in the UK have come from collaborations between academia and space industry3. There’s a strong track record of engineering achievements combined with entrepreneurial abilities and...
