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...
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...
December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
... development now, would then travel to the redirected asteroid in the 2020s. Advancing spacecraft technologies ARM will test a number of new space technologies to extend human spaceflight beyond LEO. One of these is the use of advanced solar electric...
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...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
... now we’re all grown up, Lego is still there with a range of construction kits that celebrate space technology. Mark Williamson opens the box on Lego’s space endeavour. The Lego Group was founded in 1932 by Ole Kirk Kristiansen, the name...
