May 2019
Active debris removal faces legal minefield
... debris was deemed to have caused damage to functional satellites. One of the most prominent examples is a collision with Europe’s Sentinel-1A radar satellite that occurred in August 2016. As the European Space Agency (ESA) reported, a tiny piece...
January 2021
How the UK space sector is levelling up with support from its science facilities
... Council (STFC) through the UK Space Agency. The North West already boasts the largest aerospace sector in Europe and, within the UK, its digital economy is second only to London. But developing a thriving space sector here...
May 2022
Redefining the space professional – disruptions in the space sector workforce
... believes in supporting space professionals as early in the value chain as possible. As such, it is a founding member of Women in Aerospace Europe, regularly supports the Space Generation Council and even has its own children’s foundation enabling...
April 2025
Life in the Sun’s atmosphere - the looming threat of solar storms
... potential economic losses of US$755 billion over five years. However, the gap between North America and Europe is narrow, with the latter projected to suffer a US$697 billion hit. Greater China and Asia-Pacific are...
05 April 2017
The final journey for EUMETSAT’s oldest operational meteorological satellite
... (MTP), and was part of a pioneering geostationary weather programme that shaped the success story of satellite meteorology in Europe. With almost 20 years in orbit, Meteosat-7 has had the longest operational lifetime of any European meteorological...
30 May 2017
Plans for Europe's first commercial video satellite constellation
A British satellite company has announced its intention to launch a commercial constellation of Earth observation satellites offering both video and imagery - and the first in the world to provide full-colour video footage. A prototype spacecraft ...
