From Mexico to Mongolia, the United Kingdom Space Agency is using space to solve problems in developing nations
.are involved in the International Partnership Programme, through which the United Kingdom uses space technology to monitor crops, improve telehealth availability and tracking illegal fishing. Graham Turnock, the head of the U.K. Space Agency, recently saw the program to use space as a foreign policy tool in action on a trip to South Africa, where the U.K. is putting GPS beacons on small fishing boats that sail without any communications so they could be found in case of emergency.
Turnock also spoke about the U.K.'s exploration plans for the moon and Mars and more immediate steps to establish its own National Space Council to spur its space endeavors. Also in the last year or so, we've got a growing focus on national capability with our need to exit the Galileo program. We're looking at a U.K. global navigation satellite system. We're also developing the capability for launch in the U.K., both because we think it's a great new market for the U.K. to be in small launch, but also it has the potential for a national capability you need in particular on the military side. ...
to Mercury where we created some of the sort of the key imaging instruments ... which look for X-rays and also very much involved in the Earth observing program.There's the wider environment which is a low-tax economy with stable systems of government, corporate governance, a good legal system, and the ability to take money in and out of the country, which I think makes it very attractive for investment. It's good to see people like [satellite constellation company] OneWeb in the U.K.
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