May 2024
Prioritising space solutions to accelerate sustainable development
... in the European Space Agency (ESA) and went on to establish the UK Space Agency (UKSA), as well as a dedicated Satellite Applications Catapult to fuel new innovations. That is what it means to embed ‘space by design’ into the fabric of an economy...
12 April 2021
Mega-constellations drive buoyant smallsat market
...." Other updates in ‘Prospects for the Small Satellite Market’ include a reviewed and refined pricing model for manufacturing and launch prices, and a re-balancing of the satellite applications in the database with regard to information, Earth...
April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
...materialise In recent years, we have seen a number of new players enter the space market, offering new satellite applications such as mobile interactive communications (to all latitudes) as well as Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT...
19 June 2018
Harwell Space Cluster turbocharges growth in UK’s ‘New Space’ sector
... Facilities Council’s RAL Space facility, the European Space Agency and its Business Incubation Centre, the Satellite Applications Catapult and the UK Space Agency. The Space Cluster is attracting significant private investment into the UK’s thriving...
May 2017
Could Brexit blow a hole in UK’s space ambitions?
...membership. Flags are raised to mark the formal opening of ESA’s first UK facility - the European Centre for Satellite Applications and Telecommunications (ECSAT) - at Harwell, Oxfordshire, in July 2015. Plans for commercial spaceflight launches from...
01 October 2020
UK to launch new international space collaborations
... space debris with new monitoring technologies to using Earth Observation satellites to track issues like climate change, and space science and satellite applications to provide expert disaster relief assistance. Alice Bunn, International Director...
