Space Technology: Civil Defence
(asked on 4th December 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what recent steps her Department has taken to establish a civil-defence national space operations centre.
This question was answered on 12th December 2023
The National Space Strategy asked the UK Space Agency and Ministry of Defence to establish a National Space Operations Centre (NSpOC). NSpOC will combine and coordinate civil and military space domain awareness capabilities to enable operations and protect UK interests in space and on earth from space related threats, risks and hazards. NSpOC is scheduled to launch during 2024.