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A FELLOW of the British Interplanetary Society has written to Space Minister Jo Johnson calling for government to lead growth in the British and European space industries.
Exploration of our solar system has been hampered since the dawn of the space age by spacecraft launch costs.
But in Monday’s letter Stephen Ashworth pointed out that Britain was already a leader in the technologies required to build the reusable spaceplane necessary to bring launch costs down.
Oxfordshire’s Reaction Engines has been working on the dual air-space Sabre engine for 20 years for use in its revolutionary Skylon spaceplane.
“I urge Britain’s Space Minister to give the UK and European space agencies the necessary political leadership by focusing their attention on programmes for economic use of space resources capable of exponential growth,” Mr Ashworth wrote.
