Victoria Pearson, Author at SpaceNews https://spacenews.com Covering the business and politics of space Wed, 22 Oct 2025 21:31:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cropped-SN_forza_star-32x32.png Victoria Pearson, Author at SpaceNews https://spacenews.com 32 32 80681979 Europe must build its own critical infrastructure https://spacenews.com/europe-must-build-its-own-critical-infrastructure/ https://spacenews.com/europe-must-build-its-own-critical-infrastructure/#respond Thu, 23 Oct 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=557375 Europe, imaged by an Earth observation satellite. Credit: NASA / LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response team

Amazon Web Services, or AWS, is the largest cloud provider in the United Kingdom. It holds between 40 and 50% of the market for Infrastructure-as-a-Service, and its technology underpins the […]

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]]> https://spacenews.com/europe-must-build-its-own-critical-infrastructure/feed/ 0 557375 Abolishing the UK’s independent space agency could be a mistake https://spacenews.com/abolishing-the-uks-independent-space-agency-could-be-a-mistake/ https://spacenews.com/abolishing-the-uks-independent-space-agency-could-be-a-mistake/#respond Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=549481 UK Space Agency headquarters at Harwell Science Campus space cluster. Credit: UK Space Agency

At the end of August, the U.K. government took the decision to fold the UK Space Agency (UKSA) into the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). UKSA was created […]

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