21 May 2018
UK proposes ambitious national defence space strategy
... the total to over 600. With an increasing amount of the UK's military systems now dependent on space technology, he said Britain must be ready to counter the “intensifying threats” to everyday life emerging in space. The strategy will include plans...
July 2018
Rediscovering UK sovereign launch capability
... the UK that would be suitable to host rocket launches. It might also be viewed as an attempt by the UK Government to demonstrate that Britain is still ‘open for business’ despite the political turmoil surrounding the UK exit from the EU In May 2016...
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...
09 July 2018
Plans for a future Mars rover to return soil samples to Earth
...to Earth for the first time ever, demonstrates Britain’s world-leading scientific and engineering innovation.” The .... The close collaboration between the UK and ESA will place Britain at the forefront of innovative missions to explore the Moon, Mars...
