{"id":87254,"date":"2010-03-24T20:07:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T12:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/u-k-space-agency-launched\/"},"modified":"2010-03-24T20:07:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T12:07:24","slug":"u-k-space-agency-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/u-k-space-agency-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"U.K. Space Agency Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[03-24-10] The U.K. government has launched the <strong>U.K Space Agency <\/strong>and created the <strong>International Space Innovation Centre<\/strong> (ISIC), government officials announced March 23. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ISIC is intended to provide a central hub for British space activity and ensure that the United Kingdom maintains a world class space capability. The ISIC is being supported by a 12 million pound ($18 million) investment from the <strong>BIS Strategic Investment Fund<\/strong> and will be located with the <strong>European Space Agency <\/strong>facility opened in July in Harwell. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cThe [U.K. space industry] is one of Britain\u2019s real success stories. Year on year, it provides more jobs both directly and indirectly to the U.K. workforce. This is exactly the kind of high value-added industry we need to support as we rebalance our economy, creating sustainable growth and the jobs of the future,\u201d U.K. Government Business Secretary Lord Mandelson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">U.K. Ministry of Defense Orders Fourth Skynet  Satellite<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tMarch 11, 2010<br \/>\n[10-11-10] Paradigm, a  subsidiary of Astrium Services, signed a contract with the U.K. Ministry  of Defence (MoD) to extend the Skynet 5 private finance initiative  (PFI) program, including the addition of a fourth satellite, the\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Brunei Hires U.K. Analysis Firm to Develop National  Broadband Strategy<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tFebruary 1, 2010<br \/>\n[02-01-10] U.K.-based Analysys  Mason has been selected by the Brunei Authority for Info-communications  Technology Industry (AITI) to develop a broadband strategy to support  access to highly developed information communication\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">U.K. Establishing New Space Agency<\/b> \t\t \t\t\t&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tDecember 14, 2009<br \/>\n[12-14-09] The United Kingdom  will create a new executive space and satellite agency, the U.K. Science  and Innovation Ministry announced Dec. 10.   The agency will  replace the British National Space Center and bring together six\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[03-24-10] The U.K. government has launched the U.K Space Agency and created the International Space Innovation Centre (ISIC), government officials announced March 23. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ISIC is intended to provide a central hub for British space activity and ensure that the United Kingdom maintains a world class space capability. The ISIC is being supported by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}