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Lumi Space becomes the first Open Cosmos and ESA Business Applications ‘Call to Orbit’ winner

August 12th, 2019 Posted in News

12 August 2019 – Power is a key limitation for modern satellite technology. As satellites have shrunk, their ability to gather sunlight has decreased. Electric power systems can take up more than 25% of the cost, weight and volume of a satellite. ...

Space School celebrates 30 years since launch

August 1st, 2019 Posted in Article

1 August 2019 – Space School UK is celebrating its 30th anniversary in July 2019, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landings. Space School UK is a residential summer school, held at the University of Leicester, for young p...

Airbus brings a SMILE to ESA

July 30th, 2019 Posted in News

30 July 2019 – Airbus has been selected by the European Space Agency to build the European component of the SMILE satellite (Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer). SMILE will be the first joint satellite mission between the European S...

Scottish space firm Skyrora celebrates successful rocket engine testing

July 26th, 2019 Posted in News

26 July 2019 – Skyrora has successfully carried out testing on a fully 3D-printed, commercial rocket engine for the first time ever in the UK. Edinburgh-based Skyrora used its base in Cornwall to carry out engine checks on its XL rocket, the firm’...

JUICE starts its journey… on Earth

July 25th, 2019 Posted in News

25 July 2019 – Airbus Defence and Space has completed the first step in the construction of the inner structure of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) JUICE satellite. This is the beginning of its Earthly journey through different Airbus sites in Eu...

The space industry could be key to the UK taking a stand on climate change

July 22nd, 2019 Posted in Thought Leadership

UKspace Chair, Graham Peters, writes ahead of a campaign launching shortly calling for a national space programme, backed by significant new funding because “the moment for the Government to act is now.” As climate change climbs the politica...

OneWeb Satellites transform space industry with world’s first high-volume satellite production facility in Florida

July 22nd, 2019 Posted in News

22 July 2019 – OneWeb Satellites – a joint venture of OneWeb and Airbus – today officially opened the world’s first high-volume, high-speed advanced satellite production facility to bring transformative internet connectivity to everyone, everywher...

How the Moon landing 50 years ago inspired a generation in the UK

July 19th, 2019 Posted in News

19 July 2019 – Hundreds of people across the UK have shared their astonishing memories, photos and scrapbooks for a special compilation to mark 50 years since the Apollo Moon landing in 1969. The public were asked to share their memories of the Mo...

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