Te Glasgow- based company launched Scotland’s first ever satellite, UKube-1, last year aboard a Russian Soyuz-2 rocket to measure plasmaspheric space weather and take images of the earth
In Glasgow, Strathclyde University’s Advanced Space Concepts Laboratory has been working with Astrium, the third biggest space enterprise in the world.
The towering reputation Scotland has gained in space technology development has put it in the frame for the next big thing.
Three locations in Scotland are in the running to host the UK’s first commercial spaceport by 2018. Machrihanish airfield, near Campbeltown, Glasgow Prestwick airport and Stornoway are all on the shortlist.
Spire’s new European global HQ at Skypark in Glasgow is being supported with a £1.9m grant from the Scotish Government and Scotish Enterprise,
It is establishing a nano-satellite centre there. The centre also will encompass design, development, manufacturing and data management.
It will also support technological advances in the field of world- wide weather data collection.
“The confidence placed in us lets us expand our global footprint to atract the skills and talent we need to deliver on the next generation of weather satellites,” said Spire’s CEO, Peter Platzer.
“Here in Scotland we are looking for the top one per cent of the world’s talent pool. We aim to hire and nurture the best and the brightest. As part of Spire’s culture, we offer them a distinctive, well-rounded, international life experience.”
Meanwhile, Glasgow firm, Clyde Space, last year launched Scotland’s first ever satellite, UKube-1. Put into orbit from a Russian Soyuz-2 rocket, it measures space weather and take images of the earth.
Clyde Space produces high performance systems for extremely small satellites.
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