The governments of the United Kingdom and Australia have signed the ‘Space Bridge’ agreement which has been in the works for a number of months. The idea behind the agreement, officially called the UK-Australia ‘Space Bridge’ Framework Agreement, is to provide quote significant opportunities for space companies in both countries. This agreement is a significant step and represents the closest bilateral agreement between two nations of civil space industry collaboration anywhe

The governments of the United Kingdom and Australia have signed the ‘Space Bridge’ agreement which has been in the works for a number of months. The idea behind the agreement, officially called the UK-Australia ‘Space Bridge’ Framework Agreement, is to provide quote significant opportunities for space companies in both countries. This agreement is a significant step and represents the closest bilateral agreement between two nations of civil space industry collaboration anywhe

European Space Agency Announce further Astronaut Recruitment The United Kingdom is a member state of the European Space Agency, which is looking to hire 6 full-time astronauts and up to 20 reserve astronauts from March this year. Incredibly, the opportunity has been opened up to physically disabled people with lower limb abnormalities or a short stature to apply in order to conduct a feasibility study on training so-called 'Parastronauts'. It is a very small step towards true

Computing in Space is absolutely critical to conducting successful business in space. For the last 20 years, we can probably count the industries who did not convert their business into data as a way of tracking performance and success. We caught up with Richard Ward, Founder and CTO of OrbitsEdge; a US company driving towards a data-enabled future space economy partially in partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprises; to discuss the importance of this field and the progress

1. NASA launched a mission back in 2017 called the Mars 2020 mission, which is due to arrive at Mars on Thursday 18th February 2021. 2. The Mars 2020 Mission is carrying two vehicles, the Perseverance Rover and the Ingenuity helicopter test-aircraft. 3. The Landing is scheduled for about 9pm UK time. The Spacecraft will smash into the Martian atmosphere at about 20:48UTC (8:48pm) 4. The Rover has an unusual landing sequence due to the thin atmosphere on Mars: First an ablativ

Space Placements in Industry, known as SPIN have become a powerhouse of developmental opportunity in the UK Space Industry, enabled by the UK Space Agency. Companies such as SmallSpark Space Systems take university engineers under their wings (or perhaps fins in this case) for a summer internship where a symbiotic relationship between industry experience on the one hand, and cheap but useful labour on the other has spawned a number of fruitful ongoing relationships within the