August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
... play. It is by no means certain that regulators would impose environmental restrictions on a powerful and lucrative private space company that might endanger the profitability of its mission. It seems that the law, on this occasion, would certainly...
December 2021
The rise of the UK space economy
...the southeast corner of the UK. In addition, this mostly belongs to specific space companies (apart from the National Space Test Facility at Harwell, operated by RAL Space). There is a need for the development of manufacturing capacity to support the...
September 2023
Satellite manufacturing - building to size, speed and security
... them directly. We positioned ourselves at a nexus which the space industry needed, in that we build the satellite infrastructure that enables other space companies to explore space. Until 2020, Terran Orbital was a small CubeSat manufacturer making...
08 October 2018
A round-up of news from this years IAC
...auspicious event. The OHB Group – one of the three leading space companies in Europe – signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Blue... that is designed to deliver payloads for governments, companies, universities, non-profits, and individuals at an ...
18 December 2024
EU to launch advanced constellation to counter Musk’s Starlink
... in a ‘mega constellation’ similar to Starlink. Editor’s comment: Whilst nearly all of the top European space companies will be involved in IRIS², British space firms will not be among them. Though the UK previously played an active role in the...
20 May 2026
Greek optical ground station boosts Europe’s space connectivity
..., a Lithuanian space and defence company developing laser communication solutions across space, ground and ...University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) and jointly supported by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Greek Ministry of Digital Governance. ...