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<p>Britain has a vibrant commercial space sector and plays a leading role in international
space science. Scotland has end-to-end capabilities from Satellite design and manufacture
to the use of space data and services in day-to-day applications. Indeed:</p><ul><li>In
2015 & 16, more satellites were manufactured in Glasgow than any other European
city,</li><li>The number of space organisations in Scotland grew by 26% between 2014/15
& 2016/17,</li><li>Scottish space organisations employ almost 1 in 5 of the UK
space workforce.</li></ul><p><br> We want to ensure that our space industry, one of
the fastest-growing industries in the UK economy, covers the whole of the UK. In July
2018, we announced £31.5 million in grant funding to support development of a new
vertical spaceport in Sutherland, providing a much-needed boost to rural Scotland.</p><p>We
are equipping the UK with the Space facilities we will need in the future. The National
Satellite Test Facility now being built in Harwell with £99m of investment from the
Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund will provide crucial new test facilities for an
expanding space manufacturing sector.</p><p>The UK Space Agency also co-invests with
the Satellite Applications Catapult in a network of five regional Centres of Excellence
in Satellite Applications across the UK, including the Scottish Centre of Excellence
hosted by the University of Strathclyde. The Centres raise awareness of opportunities
in the space sector, publicise funding calls and broker collaborative partnership,
including with local universities.</p>
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