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New roadmap for pro-growth regulation in UK space sector launched

The Space Regulatory Review establishes areas for the UK space sector to maintain its innovative and competitive regulatory environment.

MIT astronomers discover giant, superlight ‘WASP-193b’ planet

Astronomers have identified a unique and puzzling planet known as WASP-193b that has a density similar to cotton candy.

UK’s Earth observation technologies enhanced with £9m funding

The UK Space Agency has announced its largest investment into an early-stage technology programme to improve the UK’s Earth observation technologies.

CEA – dark matter and dark energy shape the Universe

Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille explains how the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will be able to address several of the most challenging questions of cosmology and...

InCubed: new funding for British earth observation technology

A new programme, worth over £800,000, has been made available to the UK space sector to help British earth observation businesses compete in the...

Testing the Equivalence Principle with gravitational wave astronomy

Professor Philippe Jetzer, who leads the Gravitation and Astrophysics Group at the University of Zurich (UZH), discusses gravitational waves and ways to test General...

Searching for the sources of high energy cosmic rays

Professor Pierre Sokolsky of the Telescope Array Project speaks to The Innovation Platform about the significance of laboratory expansion in finding the source of...

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