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The European Space Agency has launched its European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications in the UK at the Harwell Campus in Oxfordshire.
The ECSAT centre will focus on telecom and satcom services; the fastest growing and most profitable area of the space industry, ESA announced on 9 July.
Magali Vaissiere, ESA’s director of telecommunications and integrated applications, said: “ECSAT exists to lead the ESA programmes that address commercial market needs, whether for infrastructures, products or services.