October 2025
What future for UK human spaceflight?
.... Strategic outlook Despite having an annual civil space budget of just £475 million – less than a quarter of France’s – the UK remains a significant contributor to ESA’s exploration agenda. Its National Space Strategy, published in 2021, explicitly...
October 2025
Pioneering affordable and flexible access to near space
... technically viable alternative to in-orbit testing. B2Space launching a stratospheric balloon from the military airfield of León, France, in September 2024. High-Altitude Drop Testing Designed for validation of re-entry and recovery systems, which...
October 2025
High-altitude platforms - the search for an optimised legal framework
... should be structured suggests that creation of a new international treaty-based agreement is considered unnecessary. In contrast, France’s higher defence studies institute has suggested three potentially suitable frameworks: space law; ‘tropospheric...
November 2025
Vantage Vigil - Europe’s first operational space weather mission nears approval
... into Europe’s space weather services and complement national forecasting centres such as the UK Met Office and Météo-France, which provide 24/7 alerts to government departments and critical infrastructure operators. Vigil also represents the initial...
