21 November 2023
Britain announces plan to launch EO satellite
THE UK is seeking to join Portugal and Spain as a member of the Atlantic Constellation, a flagship global project of small satellites for Earth, ocean and climate monitoring. Through an agreement procured by the UK Space Agency (UKSA), the country ...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... access the military precision level by virtue of their EU membership, not ESA, an arrangement that caused a headache for Britain when it left the Union. In effect, military space comprises three full-spectrum powers (US, Russia, China); countries...
October 2019
Skyrora – building on British space heritage
... strength is at a level where an end-to-end space ecosystem should be able to thrive”. Levykin’s team of engineers started by studying Britain’s past rocket programmes, the Black Arrow orbital launcher and the Skylark and Petrel sounding rockets...
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...
February 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...
