Europe is pouring billions into space. Can Glasgow's satellite industry keep up?
Glasgow has emerged as a European hub for the small satellite industry, specifically focusing on modular CubeSats. These compact satellites are increasingly vital for global data collection, navigation, and environmental monitoring.
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The growth of the satellite sector in Glasgow highlights how regional industrial hubs can pivot to high-tech manufacturing to remain globally competitive.
Europe is pouring billions into space. Can Glasgow's satellite industry keep up?
By Shiona McCallum Senior technology reporter , Reporting from Glasgow In 2005, a young space engineer called Craig Clark moved back to his home city of Glasgow. He'd graduated from university just over a decade before, but the only jobs he could find were south of the border. Now Craig wanted to start a company of his own. He called it Clyde Space.
I went to school not far from the River Clyde, where the city's shipbuilding heritage was forged, and knew Glasgow had once been an industrial powerhouse. When I was a child, "Clyde-built" really meant something: craftsmanship and engineering excellence. There was a saying that I grew up with: "The Clyde made Glasgow and Glasgow made the Clyde."
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