Opportunities explored for the UK Space sector through 2020

UKspace Chair Graham Peters is optimistic about what opportunities and developments 2020 will bring for the space sector in the UK and the wider international space community, building upon a series of significant advances and announcements in recent months. He here outlines his thoughts for the new year:

The final years of the last decade witnessed huge levels of political uncertainty and a changed landscape for the UK space sector. A pivotal moment, in my opinion, was Britain’s exclusion from Galileo by the European Union. This was an extremely regrettable outcome but one of the unintended benefits was that space suddenly became very relevant politically.