March 2018
Enabling private sector success in space - SGAC perspective
... by Europe and the world; foster a globally competitive European space sector by supporting research, innovation, entrepreneurship for growth and jobs, seizing larger shares of global markets; and ensure European autonomy in accessing and using space...
July 2018
Rediscovering UK sovereign launch capability
... indeed multiple spaceports). The SIA is intended to create the necessary legal framework for the expansion and growth of the UK space industry. In an industry that is subject to such rapid change and accelerated development, once the UK Government...
July 2020
Key technologies for space exploration
... built a scientific payload that controlled air and liquid systems, to precise levels, allowing scientists to study plant growth in a microgravity environment. This system, the Biomass Production System (BPS), deployed onboard the Space Shuttle and...
September 2023
A multifaceted approach to space sustainability
... are likely to see tens of thousands of new satellites launched by the end of the decade. Clearly, these rates of growth cannot be sustained indefinitely and, at some point, we will start to run up against the limitations of orbital carrying capacity...
April 2025
A bun in the (space) oven - Reasons not to get pregnant while going around Earth at 7.8 kilometres per second
...will affect, say, a twelve-year-old girl having a growth spurt. Another issue at every stage from conception to adolescence ... for. But there isn’t. When we talk about populations and growth in human settlements, we often talk at a high level, with...
25 June 2025
UK government unveils industrial strategy
... strategy. The Industrial Strategy names space as a ‘frontier’ industry alongside 10 others “where investment supports both economic growth and security”. The space sector sits across two of the detailed sector plans, ‘Advanced Manufacturing’ and...
