Industry media coverage

The following links provide recent media coverage about the UK space industry.

General coverage

• Satellite mega-constellation production begins (BBC News, 27 June 2017)
• Leaving the Customs Union Must not Leave UK Tech Firms Tied up in Red Tape (techuk.org, 19 April 2017)
• Discovering career opportunities for women in ‘new space’ (Womanthology, 19 April 2017)
• Space Net Ventures fund launched (http://spacenetventures.com, 6 February 2017)
• Here’s What MENA Startups Can Learn From The 1st Brit To Get VC Funding For Space Tech (incarabia.com, January 2017)
• Science and Technology Committee chair: UK space industry must fight to main upward growth curve (SatelliteToday.com, 28 June 2016)
• American Airlines selects ViaSat for Max ‘At Home’ Internet Experience On 737 MAX Fleet (SatNews.com, 6 June 2016)
• Budding scientists taken out of this world by Harwell company’s presentation (1 June 2016)
• With £40bn for the taking, SMEs are venturing into space (The Guardian, 6 April 2016)
• Secrets of my success: Space expert Pat Norris (Evening Standard, 18 February 2016)
• Tim Peake’s mission marks a historic day for the UK space industry as Britain’s first International Space Station astronaut gets set for lift off (City AM, 15 December 2015)
• Man on a new space mission (The Oxford Times, 27 August 2015)
• European Space Agency teams up with venture fund (FT.com, 10 August 2015)
• Origami inspires UK space startup (The Engineer, 10 June 2015)
• UK Space Conference: Strong Appetite to Invest in New UK Space Businesses (Satellite Today, 22 April 2015)
• What Makes a Spaceport Business Take Off? (pages 31-34) (NewSpace Global, August 2014)
• Good News in the Budget for UK-based Satellite Operators (March 2014)
• Lift-off for UK space (RAeS’s AEROSPACE magazine – February 2014)
• 3D satellite video of Sochi sports facilities (Airbus Defence & Space – January 2014)
• Space debris: The legal issues (RAeS website – January 2014)
• From Swindon to the Solar System (The Independent – July 2013)

Coverage of the Space IGS launch (November 2013)

• Video: Andy Green (Co-chair of Space Leadership Council) interview about Space IGS (BBC News)
• Science and Technology Committee: The New Space Race (The House) – part 1 / part 2
• UK ‘needs national space programme’ (BBC News)
• Spaceport by 2018 part of UK space action plan (IET)
• Cape Canaveral… in Wales! British space industry reveals plans for base with aim of putting satellites into orbit within five years (Daily Mail)
• Wales considered as potential location for first UK space launch base (Wales Online)
• 2013 a space policy: Britain gives £2bn sector lift-off (The Independent)
• Wales Considered as Location of Space Launch Port Despite Barely Having International Airport (International Business Times)
• The Long View: UK leadership of the international space race isn’t entirely out-of-this-world (City AM)
• Virgin Galactic isn’t the future of the UK space industry (The Engineer)
• Planning group calls for National Space Policy in Britain (Science News)
• Britain’s £25bn space race (The Telegraph)
• Space sector calls for action to keep Britain ahead in the global race (Space Daily)
• Space sector could give a valuable boost to the nascent economic recovery (Daily Mail)
• Britain’s booming space industry looks to Mars and beyond (The Guardian)
• Science minister says Moray base could become first UK spaceport (The Herald)
• From Scotland to the stars: old RAF base may be home to Britain’s first spaceport (The Times)