18 November 2020
AstroAgency secures funding for Scottish Space Leadership Council
...sector has been awarded a development grant from the UK Space Agency (UKSA) to establish a space hub on behalf of the Scottish Space Leadership Council (SSLC). Space start-up AstroAgency will use the financial support to advance the SSLC into a fully...
December 2014
Space for Earth: How ESA wants to use lessons learned above on the ground
... technology specialists. To expand this view towards terrestrial industries and markets, space agency support to provide fora, occasions and incentives for discussions between space industry and representatives of the energy sector has been key. This...
20 November 2017
New £29 million AI and robotics space hub for UK
... through a £6.7 million grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the UK Space Agency (UKSA). FAIR-SPACE plans to go beyond the-state-of-the-art in robotic sensing, perception, mobility and manipulation by tasking...
December 2021
The rise of the UK space economy
.... There has also been significant reorganisation of space governance, with the creation of a UK National Space Council as a Cabinet-level committee and a change in the role of the UK Space Agency, which appears to be losing its role in determining...
25 June 2021
China announces plans to build a base on Mars starting in 2033
... noted that it would be a starting point for future space voyages. Such technology has been mentioned before by the Chinese...to and from the moon. The design, which includes a space capsule for holding passengers or cargo that is propelled upwards into...
28 December 2020
First piece of the Chinese Space Station is set to launch in 2021
...China's Hunan Province, Zhou Jianping, chief designer of China's crewed space programme said the Tianhe core module will be sent by a ... mark the first time a Chinese woman commands a space mission or performs an extravehicular activity (EVA). After...
