April 2024
Unlocking the NewSpace economy through space-based solar power
... solar power systems. About the authors Frank Schoofs is a Senior Space Energy Development Engineer with the UK Satellite Applications Catapult. He previously worked with the UK Atomic Energy Authority. He has a PhD in Materials Science, University...
19 March 2021
World's first commercial space debris removal demo set for launch
... the Baikonur Cosmodrome on a Soyuz rocket operated by GK Launch Services and will be operated from the UK at the Satellite Applications Catapult at Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire. Among the technologies Astroscale hopes to test over the next few months...
March 2015
Space weather: the public & policy
... now critically relies. Key examples of these technologies include the power grid, civil aviation and many satellite applications. The threat posed to these technologies by severe space weather has been well documented in a range of studies, most...
07 October 2021
ROOM supports virtual technology pavilion for COP26
... and supporting the delivery of the Virtual Pavilion include the UK Space Agency, Space4Climate, the Satellite Applications Catapult, Geospatial Commission, UKSpace, Location Data Scotland, Scottish Space Leadership Council (through the University...
16 April 2020
China in Space
... excels. In his fourth book in a series on the Chinese Space programme, Brian Harvey covers everything from satellite applications to launch vehicle development, while focusing on “China’s biggest space construction project” - the China Space Station...
