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...
September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
..., while the Brazilian Air Force is responsible for signing the contract with companies. The recent Brazilian Space Agency call for companies interested in launching from Alcântara will allow the country to start private company...
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...
September 2023
Getting a grip on space sustainability and space debris
... the world. We’re actively working to define what those might be and to identify the bits the UK Space Agency wants to lead on. Does space sustainability include Earth’s atmosphere? Thinking about the potential for damage by chemical compounds that...
28 November 2016
UK capital investment company initiates pioneering space technologies fund
... the next two quarters, the fund is backed by smart capital from leading space companies and supported by the UK Space Agency and the European Space Agency. The Seraphim Space Fund which will be the first fund of its size anywhere in the...
September 2017
Call for Australia to head back into space
...goal within 20 years. The ‘right impetus’ would be “the establishment of an Australian Space Agency to lead a cohesive national space strategy” [4]. Civil space leadership Australia relies heavily on its relationship with the United States for access...
