Landmark UK Space Command to open next week
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16th July 2021
The UK Space Command is expected to formally open its headquarters inside RAF High Wycombe in the coming days, as the organisation continues to determine the kinds of technologies and capabilities it will field in the months and years ahead.
Speaking at the 2021 Global Air Chiefs’ Conference on July 14, AVM Paul Godfrey, commander UK Space Command, said the HQ facility would open on July 22, and provided further outlines as to the direction of thinking regarding the Vision 2030 strategy.
Having been formed following the UK s Integrated Review and Defence Command Paper published earlier this year, the UK Space Command has been building up its physical infrastructure. UK MOD/Crown copyright
Landmark UK Space Command to open next week
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China has been rapidly expanding its space ambitions, but without international collaboration experts warn that lives are being put at risk
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China s Long March-5B Y2 rocket recently made an uncontrolled re-entry, and many feared it was going to crash into a populated area
Credit: China Daily via REUTERS
The remnants of China’s biggest rocket came crashing into the Indian Ocean just west of the Maldives archipelago a week ago on Sunday May 9.
It was, according to Harvard astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, a “reckless” end to one of the largest uncontrolled re-entries of a spacecraft in history.