24 June 2016
Will Brexit Lead to Spexit?
... initiative. The Norwegian experience also highlights some of the other issues that may soon be faced by Britain. So far, Britain has actively participated in the Public Regulated Service, which provides protected, encrypted signals reserved for...
January 2016
The Benefits of a British Spaceport
... has been here before. In the 1960s - when Britain had its own fledgeling space programme - Brancaster in North..., it was considered an unacceptable risk to launch rockets overhead. Britain’s space programme of the time, which included rockets such as...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
...space artists, including of course myself. Early space artists In 1950s Britain there was RA (Ralph) Smith, who worked with Arthur C ...both sexes, joined - not just from America but from Britain and many other countries. Today there are around 120 ...
September 2017
Australia’s unique space history
...a Skylark rocket and the Black Arrow reconstruction in the background. Britain’s Black Knight research missile was used 1958 - 1965 for ... from Woomera in 1967, and the last launch of Britain’s Black Arrow programme, active 1969 - 1971, lofted Prospero...
June 2015
Training space tourists to fly to the ISS at the Gagarin Centre
... non-governmental, privately funded projects. First was the TV journalist Toyohiro Akiyama from Japan and then Britain’s Helen Sharman. Both travelled to the Soviet Mir station aboard Soyuz spacecraft. Yet these were one...
May 2017
Could Brexit blow a hole in UK’s space ambitions?
We are leaving the European Union not Europe”, an often-repeated phrase since the UK Referendum of 23 June 2016, and one which might offer some comfort to those who are participants in organisations outside the European Union (EU), including the ...
