UKspace report: Securing Our Future in Space
A new report commissioned by UKspace shows £270 billion of UK economic output is now dependent on data from non-UK satellites. Entitled ‘Securing Our Future in Space’, the publication sets out three actions to secure the UK’s future in space.
The policy action UKspace proposes to secure the UK's future in space:
- The Government must commit to increasing space funding from all current sources, including through the European Space Agency (ESA), which is not linked to the European Union and serves as an excellent platform upon which to drive development of sovereign capability, global collaborations and international trade.
- As well as investing in key international partnerships such as ESA, the UK should focus on expanding our sovereign space capabilities. This will build economic and security resilience, as well as allow UK industry to capture more global market share for UK job creation. To achieve this, UKspace proposes three simple actions:
- Set the Space Innovation Fund at £150m per year, sustained over 10 years. This, it is argued, will bring new advances in technology, research and science to commercially viable projects and thus create value for the UK.
- Create a National Procurement Fund of £250m per year, sustained over 10 years, for the specific procurement by Government of UK products and services. This would help grow the UK's domestic space sector, enabling UK space products and services to play a much bigger role in trading with the rest of the world.
- Establish a Space Delivery Agency to drive the programme of complex, hi-tech initiatives forward. Such an agency would be accountable to the National Space Council with a focus on delivery. This would complement the UK Space Agency’s key roles of policy, relations with international space agencies, and regulatory aspects which are best developed from within government by government.
You can read the full report here.
Sophie Greaves
Sophie Greaves
Sophie Greaves is Head of Programme for Communications Infrastructure and Services at techUK, and oversees the UK Spectrum Policy Forum.
Sophie was promoted to Head having been Programme Manager for Communications Infrastructure and Services, leading techUK's telecoms activities, engagement and policy development. Previously, Sophie was Programme Assistant across a variety of areas including the Broadband Stakeholder Group, Central Government, Financial Services and Communications Infrastructure programmes.
Prior to joining techUK, Sophie completed a masters in Film Studies at University College London; her dissertation examined US telecoms policy relating to net neutrality and content distribution.
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Tales Gaspar
Tales Gaspar
Tales has a background in law and economics, with previous experience in the regulation of new technologies and infrastructure.
In the UK and Europe, he offered consultancy on intellectual property rights of cellular and IoT technologies and on the regulatory procedures at the ITU as a Global Fellow at the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI).
Tales has an LL.M in Law and Business by the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) and an MSc in Regulation at the London School of Economics, with a specialization in Government and Law.
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