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UKube-1 completes mission

October 28th, 2015 Posted in Uncategorised

28 October 2015 – UKube-1, the UK Space Agency's first national spacecraft, has now completed its nominal mission following over 14 months of operations.

Interim Director appointed for UK Space Innovation and Growth Strategy

October 22nd, 2015 Posted in Uncategorised

22 October 2015 – The Space Innovation Growth Strategy team are pleased to announce that Dr Steve Welch of the Knowledge Transfer Network has been appointed as interim director for the Space IGS.

Motorbike crash detection technology REALRIDER wins UK round of pan-European Space business ideas competition

October 21st, 2015 Posted in Uncategorised

21 Oct 2015 – Technology that detects when a motorbike rider has crashed and automatically notifies the emergency services so that prompt and potentially life-saving action can be taken, has won first place in the UK round of the European Sat...

Earth-i announces forthcoming operational data services from the DMC3/TripleSat Constellation

October 16th, 2015 Posted in Uncategorised

16 October 2015 – Earth-i expects to begin offering full operational imaging and data services later this year from the DMC3/TripleSat constellation and will place specific focus on fast, easy and convenient access for data users.

Airbus Defence and Space ships communications satellite Telstar 12 VANTAGE to launch site

October 16th, 2015 Posted in Uncategorised

16 October 2015 – Airbus Defence and Space has successfully completed the final integration and testing of the new Telstar 12 VANTAGE satellite for Telesat, a leading global satellite operator headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

Airbus Defence and Space now ready to start testing on CHEOPS, the first European exoplanet tracker

October 13th, 2015 Posted in Uncategorised

13 October 2015 – Airbus Defence and Space has finished building the structural model for ESA’s CHEOPS (CHaracterisingExOPlanet Satellite), Europe’s first mission to search for exoplanetary transits by performing ultra-high precision photomet...

Get students excited about the UK space industry and apply for the Astro Support Team in I’m an Astronaut, Get me out of here!

October 13th, 2015 Posted in Uncategorised

13 October 2015 – As part of Tim Peake's Principia mission, the UK Space Agency is funding I'm an Astronaut, Get me out of here, an online activity where school students from all over the UK get to talk to the Astro Support Team: the people b...

Airbus Defence and Space ships LISA Pathfinder to launch site

October 12th, 2015 Posted in Uncategorised

12 October 2015 – LISA Pathfinder, the European Space Agency’s gravitational-wave detection technology demonstrator, has left Stevenage ready for launch. It was shipped from the UK to Kourou in French Guiana on board an Antonov aircraft and a...

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