The UK Space Agency(UKSA)has been away from the industry limelight due to the extensive collaboration with its various European counterparts.But as most UK citizens voted on June 23,2016,to opt-out of the European Uni...The UK Space Agency(UKSA)has been away from the industry limelight due to the extensive collaboration with its various European counterparts.But as most UK citizens voted on June 23,2016,to opt-out of the European Union(EU),UKSA is in the spotlight from the past three years.Historically,the UK has been one of the significant partners of the European Space Agency(ESA),through which the EU was able to build and develop various technical capabilities for space science and technological research.The country had one of the prime positions in the Galileo project-European Global Navigation Satellite System(GNSS)as well as in other lucrativ e projects like EU's Earth Observation(EO)programme called Copernicus.Even though the Brexit decision is making the UK miss out on some of the future commercial space opportunities,the UK will remain a member of ESA.展开更多
文摘The UK Space Agency(UKSA)has been away from the industry limelight due to the extensive collaboration with its various European counterparts.But as most UK citizens voted on June 23,2016,to opt-out of the European Union(EU),UKSA is in the spotlight from the past three years.Historically,the UK has been one of the significant partners of the European Space Agency(ESA),through which the EU was able to build and develop various technical capabilities for space science and technological research.The country had one of the prime positions in the Galileo project-European Global Navigation Satellite System(GNSS)as well as in other lucrativ e projects like EU's Earth Observation(EO)programme called Copernicus.Even though the Brexit decision is making the UK miss out on some of the future commercial space opportunities,the UK will remain a member of ESA.
