10 February 2017
UK pledges cash for commercial launch capabilities
... amongst elderly people. The judging panel will be made up of experts including representatives from the UK Space Agency, the European Space Agency, Catapult – a satellite company based in Harwell and others in the industry. Aimed at supporting the...
13 July 2020
ESA calls for 5G/space proposals with UKSA
... of Telecommunications and Integrated Applications said: “This is a great opportunity for ESA to join forces with DCMS and UK Space Agency and prove the key role that satellite communications will play in the future converged 5G networks.” “In the...
13 January 2021
Portugal envision building a spaceport on the Azores islands
... are keen to step-up efforts and raise the ambition of developing and promoting the space infrastructures of the future, said its space agency in a report. Key to this will be “to exploit the natural alliances with Portuguese-speaking communities...
April 2020
Spaceport Cornwall – from protests to sustainability
... Spaceport Cornwall achieve its sustainable goals? Two distinct pieces of work, funded by an award from the UK Space Agency’s Horizontal Launch Fund in September 2019, will help. The first is a carbon assessment of operations, a factual understanding...
April 2021
Making space part of the everyday European agenda
... IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) are based to a large extent on observations of ESA satellites and those of other space agencies. Without satellite data we would not have anything like the quality and accuracy of data that we have...
November 2019
Mexico’s path to space
... lobbying by Mexican academics who recognised that Mexico needed an organisation responsible for conducting a national space programme The Mexican space agency (AEM - Agencia Espacial Mexicana) came into being after lobbying by Mexican academics who...
