March 2021
Campuses, clusters and a leading force in UK space
...-art facilities and business support, as well as an ecosystem of specialist knowledge in engineering and astronomy, including access to the ESA BIC UK. In addition SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) can use the specially-designed space testing...
24 June 2016
Will Brexit Lead to Spexit?
...will happen with the future Galileo satellites. The deadline set by ESA for industry bids on the next Galileo series is July 19... US and Canada creating British divisions to get access to ESA and European Union space project funding. The British share ...
23 February 2018
UK to host world’s first commercial deep-space communications station
...the high-end performance and technology requirements needed by ESA, NASA and private space exploration companies for deep-space...in about 24 months, Goonhilly will be able to complement ESA’s own stations, and provide deep-space tracking for the Agency...
October 2015
Growing space businesses in the UK: from incubation centres to public funding
...and providing new services. One example has been ESA’s Business Incubator scheme to help establish and ...back to the UK in terms of absolute geo-return (the process by which ESA ‘returns’ the money to the UK in the form of industrial contracts). Indeed...
February 2016
Danish Surprise for ISS Crew
...as he’d planned it all out, he began receiving emails from ESA detailing the rules that had to be followed for space meals.... “And in this process,” says Schmidt, “I got a call from ESA, saying ‘Hey, Thorsten, bear in mind....maybe it’s 25 degrees, not...
January 2021
Asgardia’s project for a new module to expand Space Station
... such as crew time and technical consultancy. Unfortunately, despite recognising its technical validity and potential promise, ESA has for now declined the consortium’s visionary proposal due to “political and technological risks”. Project potential...