The head of the UK’s first horizontal spaceport, based in Cornwall, has been named by the Observer as one of 2022’s “faces to watch”.

Melissa Thorpe, head of Spaceport Cornwall in Newquay, has been named alongside incoming Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and UK foreign secretary Liz Truss as a key figure “who will be making headlines this year”.

Ms Thorpe is joined in the science...

To celebrate this year’s World Space Week , which is focused on celebrating Women in Space, Plymouth Science Park is shining a light on ‘women who are out of this world’, by talking to inspirational women working in the sector across the South West.

In the ‘Women who are out of this world’ series, Fay Davies, business development manager at Plymouth Science Park, interviews women...

The UK Space Agency has announced new funding to support ambitious plans for the exploration of space.

Proposals could include ideas such as the utilisation of resources beyond Earth’s atmosphere, the use of nuclear power in space or the exploration the Moon, and Mars.

The funding call, which is part of the UK Space Agency’s Space Exploration programme, invites the space...