October 2015
Growing space businesses in the UK: from incubation centres to public funding
...make-or-break for business performance and even survival. Our assessment of the future for the space sector in the UK is very positive. We see space continuing to grow at around 9% per year, in line with forecasts. UK businesses will continue to step...
March 2021
Campuses, clusters and a leading force in UK space
... clean-rooms. The Higgs facilities are ideally placed as a key enabler within the Scottish space sector, helping SMEs to develop space capability. Royal Observatory Edinburgh. At the Sci-Tech Daresbury campus in Cheshire businesses are capitalising...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... in 2011 banning NASA from collaborating with China and from joining the ISS. The Chinese commercial space sector has a high upstream concentration in launch vehicles, satellite manufacturing and more recently satellite internet infrastructure, the...
September 2023
A multifaceted approach to space sustainability
... of recovery with investments up by 29 percent year-on-year at the end of the first quarter. The fast-evolving space sector continues to be seen as an alluring investment opportunity for many, with the more wildly optimistic forecasts predicting that...
23 June 2017
New INNOspace Weekend for would-be entrepreneurs
... ideas that can arise through the interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge and technology”. Time and again, the space sector has brought out trailblazing innovations that have a genuine impact on our everyday lives. To achieve this, the...
19 June 2020
New US-UK agreement boosts UK’s spaceport plans
...Tony Azzarelli said in a statement: “We are thrilled that the UK has signed such agreement as it would boost the space sector in the UK, both from lending a hand to US launchers, as well as increasing the importance of the UK as a launching state and...
