UK space strategy and UK satellite infrastructure examined
6 January 2022
The Science and Technology Committee will first scrutinise the successes and failures of space strategies in other countries, exploring areas including national funding strategies, the role of international collaboration, and skills. In the latter part of the session, MPs will hear from the UK's Civil Aviation Authority, questioning the progression of spaceflight regulations and plans to develop these in the future.
- Watch Parliament TV: UK space strategy and UK satellite infrastructure
- Inquiry: UK space strategy and UK satellite infrastructure
- Science and Technology Committee
Witnesses
Wednesday 12 January 2022
At 9.30am
- Josef Aschbacher, Director General, European Space Agency
At 10.15am
- Philippe Baptiste (France), President of CNES (Centre national d'études spatiales—French National Space and Research Centre)
- Dr. Hiroshi Yamakawa, President, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
At 11.15am
- Tim Johnson, Director of Strategy & Policy, Civil Aviation Authority
- Colin Macleod, Head of UK Space Regulation, Civil Aviation Authority
Further information
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