Nature explores the United Kingdom and European Union’s research agreements, brokered through seven years of rollercoaster negotiations. Nature explores the United Kingdom and European Union’s research agreements, brokered through seven years of rollercoaster negotiations.
Through its programmes, the UK Space Agency encourages research and development in the country s space sector, and improvements in national space capabilities.
UK Space Sector to Help Protect CNI
Leading UK space companies Airbus, CGI, Sirius Analysis, GMV NSL, Inmarsat, and QinetiQ will each receive a share of the funding to help develop system design and operation, signals and algorithms, resilience, assurance, and cost modelling for the UK Space Agency’s Space Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Programme (SBPP).
UK Space Agency deputy CEO Ian Annett said, “The UK is critically dependent on position, navigation and timing information from satellite navigation systems in transport, communications, energy distribution, and emergency response.”
“This initial funding will help us design options for a new system to support our critical national infrastructure, whilst growing the space sector, boosting economic growth and making daily life more secure for people everywhere in the UK,” Annett added.
News story UK space sector wins over £2 million to help develop options for a national position, navigation and timing space system
6 UK businesses have won a share of over £2 million in government funding to help shape options for the UK’s satellite navigation and timing capability, to protect UK Critical National Infrastructure.
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28 May 2021
Leading UK space companies Airbus, CGI, Sirius Analysis, GMV NSL, Inmarsat, and QinetiQ will each receive a share of the funding to help develop system design and operation, signals and algorithms, resilience, assurance, and cost modelling for the UK Space Agency’s Space Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Programme (SBPP).