March 2021
Eyes on the prize
...of innovation that the UK wants to develop. Most are related to in-space robotics which is an area that the Space Growth Partnership advocated in its Prosperity From Space strategy. All of these prizes support the creation of capability in autonomous...
April 2019
Cleaning up space
...questions of mission licensing and made changes in national space policy to support the growing space industry. In 2016, the UK initiated a Space Strategy with a focus on topics including in-space robotics and, in 2018, announced its ‘Prosperity from...
August 2020
Opportunities for young people in the space sector
.... The Technical University of Berlin, for example, runs international summer and winter schools, with programmes including space robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science. Hackathons, such as The NASA International...
December 2021
The rise of the UK space economy
... in support of launch and satellite operation services. Surrey Satellite Centre has expertise in small/medium spacecraft, space robotics and imaging systems. Meanwhile, studies have been carried out on emerging cluster activity in the West Midlands...
07 November 2019
SSTL ships target satellite to Tokyo for Astroscale’s ELSA-d mission
...of debris retrieval demonstrations in January 2019. Sir Martin Sweeting, SSTL’s Executive Chairman, is also Director of the FAIR-SPACE Hub, a UK National centre of research excellence in space robotics and AI which will address in-orbit servicing and...
17 September 2018
IAI and Effective Space in technological and financial cooperation
... investors from this new era of logistics in space and in-space robotics. For both strategic and growth investors, logistics in space is a new and exciting opportunity.” The design of the SPACE DRONE™ spacecraft is a result of decades of experience...