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What does UK space look like after four and a half years at the head of its space agency? 

Dr. Paul Bate joins SSPI Executive Director Tamara Bond-Williams for a wide-ranging conversation about what he can see now that he has stepped outside the UK Space Agency and into academia. 

Paul reflects on the...

What does it take to build a commercial space partnership when market opportunity, national security, and regulation all cross the same border? 

In Collateral Risk, Episode 5, Tamara Bond-Williams speaks with Fuhua Ni, founding and managing partner of Shanghai Zenith Law Firm, about the changing legal environment...

What happens when you build a career around curiosity rather than a predetermined destination? 

In this episode of Why I Serve, we meet Shruti Vyas, Head of Programmes at SES and a member of the SSPI Board of Directors. 

Shruti’s career has moved across satellite engineering, sales, procurement,...

Defense of space begins long before launch. It depends on the industrial base that can deliver components, ground systems, financing, insurance, contracting, manufacturing capacity, and commercial services when national-security missions need them. 

In The Industrial Base Behind Defense of Space, SSPI and...

What does it take to build a space economy? 

Dr. Barbara Ghinelli has spent more than 15 years working on that question. As Director of Innovation Clusters and Harwell Campus at UKRI-STFC, she has helped develop the Harwell Space Cluster and founded the new UK Space and Defence Gateway. 

In this episode of...