December 2017
Dressing up for space
... extreme environments to facilitate human missions in microgravity, and create new opportunities and spin-offs for space technology in the private sector. She is the Principal Investigator of the VEST (Marco Polo mission) and GOAL (Eneide ...
April 2019
The changing economics of space
... aging spacecraft are often functioning well, and can still provide effective communications services. In the past, space technologies were deliberately kept behind the leading edge, since they needed to be well-proven, robust and low...
September 2020
Commercial opportunities beyond Earth orbit
... environment. But what of commercial interests? As well as standalone private sector initiatives, there is potential for space technology and engineering companies to support government projects and develop on the back of them. For instance, newly...
January 2021
How the UK space sector is levelling up with support from its science facilities
... analysing data. The work STFC engages in with businesses facilitates and realises the potential and impact of space technology both upstream and downstream. In 2020, STFC celebrated the tenth anniversary of its involvement in the flagship programme...
June 2021
Autonomous robots in space
...sources of inspiration and international cooperation but were also key to the technological advancement of space technologies. Today, the inherent challenges for humans in the space environment provide at least some of the inspiration for the concept...
28 November 2016
UK capital investment company initiates pioneering space technologies fund
...on investing in both downstream (software), and upstream (hardware) opportunities, and will also look at technologies that have potential space applications such as robotics, nanomaterials and artificial intelligence and those which rely on satellite...
