https://spacewatch.global/tag/ian-annett/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Thu, 03 Apr 2025 09:45:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/ian-annett/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2025/04/astroscale-uk-appoints-four-industry-leaders-to-newly-formed-advisory-board/ Thu, 03 Apr 2025 06:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=64684 Astroscale UK has appointed four experts to its new UK Advisory Board: Richard Franklin, Rachel Gardner-Poole, Ian Annett, and Stuart Martin. Their collective expertise across defence, civil space, aviation, and sustainability will help guide Astroscale’s strategic growth in the UK and Europe.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/06/uk-space-agency-deputy-ceo-to-step-down/ Thu, 08 Jun 2023 06:00:53 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=49292 Ian Annett, Deputy Chief Executive Officer at the UK Space Agency, has announced he will leave his role and the Civil Service at the end of August, after more than three and a half years leading the delivery of UK national civil space programmes. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/05/airbus-selects-uk-nstf-for-skynet-testing/ Fri, 12 May 2023 06:00:30 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=48680 Airbus announced on the 11th of May that it has selected the National Satellite Test Facility (NSFT) at Hartwell in Oxfordshire to carry out the comprehensive test campaign on the UK Ministry of Defence’s next generation secure communications satellite SKYNET 6A.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/05/orbex-begins-work-on-uk-mainland-vertical-launch-spaceport/ Fri, 05 May 2023 06:00:26 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=48475 Orbex has announced that construction has begun at Sutherland Spaceport (formerly known as Space Hub Sutherland) in Scotland, making this the first vertical launch spaceport to be on the UK mainland. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/05/hyimpulse-completes-eight-motor-testing-campaign/ Wed, 03 May 2023 06:00:09 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=48386 HyImpulse has completed its eighth campaign of motor testing in the Shetland Isles on the 26th of April. The high-level event featured representatives of the UK Space Agency, European Space Agency (ESA), Scottish Development International, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Shetland Islands Council, and local constituency members for the Scottish Parliament and UK Parliament.]]>