Big cash boost for UK satellite sector
The UK government formally announced a more-than-£100m investment in the space sector on Tuesday. It is putting £99m into the Harwell science campus near Oxford to extend its satellite test facilities. A further £4m is going to Wescott in Buckinghamshire where rocket motors are built and tested. "It's a fast growing sector - 8-10% per year; and it's clearly important that the UK maintains a strong position," said science minister Jo Johnson. "It's government's role to create the environment in which we can stay at the cutting edge of developments. All the market analysis suggests there are going to be many thousands of satellites launched into space between now and 2025, and we've got a good prospect here in the UK of being right at the very heart of it all." Harwell, which has become a ma...