UK space sector: breathing space

Posted on 2 Jan 2016 by Ruari McCallion

The UK’s space industry is bigger than most people realise – and is going to unimagined places, Ruari McCallion reports.

This Christmas Day will mark 12 years since Beagle 2 separated from the European space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft in orbit around the Red Planet – and disappeared. Britain’s space industry did not start with Mars Express and Beagle 2; it began much earlier, in 1960. The bewhiskered face and infectious…

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