Space nuclear power, startup launch, thermal imaging telescope among 23 winners in $42.6M of UK government awards

by Peter B. de Selding

TUPPER LAKE, NY — The British government made fresh investments in the development of space nuclear power and a domestic space-launch capability as part of the UK Space Agency’s National Space Innovation Program.

The latest funding, announced July 22 by Department of Science, Innovation and Technology Secretary of State Peter Kyle at the opening of the Farnborough Air Show, totals 33 million British pounds ($42.6 million). Nearly three-quarters of the funding divided among eight projects and the rest distributed to 15 others . . .

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