February 2016
The Benefits of a British Spaceport
... government must accept that such operations will carry a higher degree of risk than routine aviation activities Glasgow Prestwick Airport, the Scottish government-owned strategic airport facility on the Ayrshire coast, is another possible location...
20 January 2020
ESA facility begins producing oxygen out of simulated moon dust
... useful for future lunar settlers,” says Beth Lomax of the University of Glasgow, who is working on the project as part of her PhD. Having... Meurisse and Beth Lomax of the University of Glasgow producing oxygen and metal out of simulated moondust ...
12 September 2022
Scotland’s space sector flexes its green credentials
... by space strategy firm AstroAgency in partnership with Glasgow-based Optimat. Jane Martin, managing director at Scottish Enterprise, ...said: “It’s almost a year since Glasgow hosted COP26, where world leaders gathered to address...
August 2016
Big or small - aerospace innovates through constraints
... facility, the world was rapidly changing. Wingo Wong, a Spire engineer, works on satellite assembly at the company’s Glasgow office. In 1999, three years before PayPal’s IPO made Elon Musk a multi-millionaire, Jordi Puig-Suari...
February 2018
Growth drivers, requirements and threats in the smallsat industry
... Aircraft, which is currently working with Orbital Access on a future launch concept. And just 30 minutes drive away in Glasgow sits the largest workforce of space industry employees in the UK outside of London and the south east. In south...
May 2021
Taking quantum into space
... technologies that space is currently seeing is Quantum Key Distribution to augment encryption systems around the world. In Glasgow, this is the upcoming ROKS mission, led by Craft Prospect and collaborating with the University of Strathclyde and...
