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Satellite & Space Projects News - January 2016

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Fieldfisher's Space Business Summit, on 8 December 2015, brought together a full house of C level representatives from major space businesses to discuss growing and financing space business in Europe and worldwide

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Fieldfisher Space Business Summit 2015

Fieldfisher's Space Business Summit, on 8 December 2015, brought together a full house of C level representatives from major space businesses to discuss growing and financing space business in Europe and worldwide. For more information on the issues discussed at the summit, please see our summit report.

UK National Space Policy

The UK Government has published its first National Space Policy. The policy sets out the Government's plan to ensure the UK bolsters its market share and becomes a European hub for commercial spaceflight and related space sector technologies. The Government's ambition is to capture 10% of the global market supporting 100,000 new jobs and generating £40bn for our economy by 2030.

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