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Beyond Earth
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IOD-3 Amber – Operations Update

Space innovation and technology company the Satellite Applications Catapult and leading SIGINT and space-based intelligence solutions provider Horizon Technologies announced today that IOD-3 Amber™, the...

Sustainable Earth
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Adopting STAC to simplify geospatial workflows

Data management has always been a tricky business in the Earth Observation (EO) world, with the storage, access and searching of multiple terabytes of satellite...

Autonomous & Connected Earth
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TUDOR (Towards Ubiquitous 3D Open Resilient Network)

TUDOR (Towards Ubiquitous 3D Open Resilient Network) is an ambitious research project aiming to develop economically viable full geographic coverage and thereby eliminating the digital...

Beyond Earth
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Fusion Robots at work in the UK Space Industry

Advanced robotics and remote handling technologies from fusion successfully trialed for complex operations in the space industry. UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and the Satellite...

Sustainable Earth
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Conservation Partnership Launches New Award to Advance Biodiversity Conservation from Space

Connected Conservation Foundation and Airbus Foundation have today announced a new grant: ‘Satellites for Biodiversity Award’, to accelerate the use of high-resolution satellite imagery for...

Autonomous & Connected Earth
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5G-MOBIX Innovates Internationally with Help from the Satellite Applications Catapult

The Satellite Applications Catapult through its membership of ERTICO (ITS EUROPE), was part of the core team that shaped and secured funding from the H2020...

Space Applications
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Announcing the Space Partnership – A Coalition for Growth

The formation of a new Space Partnership is being announced today, bringing together industry, academia and government stakeholders to work together on priority issues to...

Westcott Space Cluster
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Benchmark Space Systems Nearly Triples Team, Expands Global Production Capacity In 2022 to Meet Rising Propulsion System Demand

With its Halcyon propulsion systems playing pivotal roles in key military and commercial space missions this year, Benchmark Space Systems today announced it has tripled...

Space Applications
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The SPIN Programme: 2022

The Space Placements in Industry (SPIN) scheme provides placement opportunities for those considering employment in the space sector and connects space sector organisations who want...

Westcott Space Cluster
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Fledgling Space Firms Set to Fly with New Funding Package

Small businesses looking to develop their expertise in the space sector are being offered a new funding package. The £500,000 Westcott Accelerator and Incubation Programme...

Beyond Earth
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IOD-3 Amber Begins its Journey to Orbit

Starting up the UK space industry: as Virgin Orbit reveals the mission name of the historic first launch from UK soil, integration begins at Spaceport...

Sustainable Earth
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Bringing Regional Verification to the Life Cycle Assessment of Raw Materials

Background The demand for raw materials to sustain the growth required in the renewable energy sector has never been as strong as it is now....

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