Space industry calls for national programme

The UK’S space industry has called on the Government to set up a national programme under its industrial strategy to boost business. Companies in Britain’s £14billion-a-year space industry are pushing hard for the programme to form a key plank of the sector deal, which could be announced as soon as next month. Richard Peckham, the chairman of trade body UK Space, said setting up a national space programme would help the sector to expand to £40billion a year by 2030. Business, page 1