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UKspace welcomes Government plans for major investment in space defence programme

July 18th, 2019 Posted in News

18 July 2019 – UKspace welcomes today’s announcements by the Defence Secretary, Penny Mordaunt, in which she provided plans for an ambitious space programme. Speaking at the Air and Space Power Conference in London, the initiatives announced by Ms...

First steps towards a UK National Space Programme

July 18th, 2019 Posted in Thought Leadership

UKspace Chair, Graham Peters, considers what the key initial steps are required towards developing a UK National Space Programme. In 1962, John F Kennedy made an historic speech about the United States’s ambitions in space. “We choose to go to the...

Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin salutes the U.S. flag

Lunar Legacy: KBR Helps Apollo 11 Make History

July 17th, 2019 Posted in News

17 July 2019 – On July 20, 1969, U.S. President Richard Nixon made arguably the world’s most historic long distance phone call. He phoned Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin on the moon. “Hello Neil and Buzz, I...

OneWeb’s Satellites Deliver Real-Time HD Streaming from Space

July 16th, 2019 Posted in News

16 July 2019 – OneWeb, whose mission is to enable internet access everywhere for everyone, is delighted to announce the successful test of its six satellites in Low Earth Orbit. All satellites delivered high-speed, low-latency services, with speed...

On 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 launch, UK and NASA state intent to work on future Moon missions

July 16th, 2019 Posted in News

The UK and US space agencies have signed a statement of intent, which paves the way for UK commercial satellite communication and navigation services to be used by future NASA missions to the Moon. 16 July 2019 – The agreement was announced in a s...

Goonhilly opens new data centre with green HPC platform for AI and ML compute on demand

July 15th, 2019 Posted in News

Building centre of excellence for data-intensive workloads including automotive, life sciences, space/aerospace industries and smart cities 15 July 2019 – Satellite communications innovator and space gateway Goonhilly Earth Station today opened it...

Innovation Loans launched by Innovate UK

July 11th, 2019 Posted in News

11 July 2019 – Innovate UK is offering up to £10 million in loans to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Loans are for highly innovative late stage projects with the best game changing and/or disruptive ideas or concepts. There shoul...

Astroscale advances environmentally sustainable use of space through ESA / OneWeb Sunrise Project

July 9th, 2019 Posted in News

9 July 2019 – Astroscale Ltd. (“Astroscale”), the market-leader in developing a space debris removal service to secure long-term orbital sustainability, has been awarded a contract under the Sunrise Project, a Public-Private Partnership led by the...

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