Insight blogs Failure to launch: the rise and fall of the UK Space Agency 23 September 2025 After a mere 15 years in existence, the UK Space Agency (UKSA) will cease to exist as an independent body in 2026. To insiders, its demise is not a surprise as discussions about its alignment with the UK’s technological needs have echoed in governmen...
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RAeS Lecture: Airlines in South America 1920-1942 - The German influence.

Royal Aeronautical Society Headquarters
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Manchester Branch: Man is Not Lost - The Pioneering Years of Air Navigation

Lecture Theatre 0.11, SEE Building, University of Salford and Online via Zoom
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Bournemouth Branch: The EIGHTH Crewman

Barnes Lecture Theatre, Poole House, Bournemouth University Talbot Campus
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Royal Observer Corps commemorated

With its origins in the air raids of World War 1 (WW1), and the threat that such raids would pose in any future conflict, the Observer Corps was founded in 1925 as an integral part of the British air defence system. Its initial role was to detect, id...

24 September 2025

Failure to launch: the rise and fall of the UK Space Agency

After a mere 15 years in existence, the UK Space Agency (UKSA) will cease to exist as an independent body in 2026. To insiders, its demise is not a surprise as discussions about its alignment with the UK’s technological needs have echoed in governmen...

23 September 2025

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Rearming at pace - DSEI 2025

Cheap, affordable mass, counter-UAS and the new UK Defence Industrial Strategy were some of the big themes at the 2025 DSEI exhibition, held in London on 9-12 September. TIM ROBINSON FRAeS reports.

19 September 2025

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