10 February 2017
UK pledges cash for commercial launch capabilities
... a scheme designed to help develop commercial launch capability for spaceflight – a market that is worth an estimated £25 billion over... I announced today, together with a new, dedicated Spaceflight Bill, will help make our space ambitions a reality,” ...
July 2018
Rediscovering UK sovereign launch capability
... site providing a business case to secure commercial funding. It is against this backdrop that, in February 2017, the Draft Spaceflight Bill was unveiled. Observers within the UK space industry responded positively, praising the ambition of the...
May 2017
Could Brexit blow a hole in UK’s space ambitions?
... much greater than are currently obtained through participation in ESA. Spaceflight Bill In February this year the British government published a draft Spaceflight Bill aimed at providing a regulatory framework for the commercial launch of satellites...
12 July 2019
NASA reassigns top leaders in Moon 2024 programme
...Administrator Jim Bridenstine has informed staff that key figures, including the widely respected director of human spaceflight Bill Gerstenmaier, will be replaced as part of a major shake-up at the agency. The move, which has come as a shock to most...
February 2018
Growth drivers, requirements and threats in the smallsat industry
... Act in 2015, which imposed a €60 million limit on the amount that spaceflight companies are required to indemnify the government. In contrast, the UK’s Draft Spaceflight Bill only reserves the option to cap liability on a case-by-case basis when...
