Empowering all Women, in Space and on Earth

April 1, 2020

Spotlight: Dr Sarah Beardsley, Head of Space Engineering and Technology at RAL Space

RAL Space joined WIA-E as a gold corporate sponsor in December 2019 at our annual Appleton Space Conference. This was the 15th of these events and I was struck by a notable difference, in 2004 all of our speakers were male, in 2019 our line-up was exactly 50:50.  I’m not going to pretend that we don’t […]

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Observing the Earth for a Better Future: meet Ornella Bombaci, Thales Alenia Space Head of Observation Payload Engineering Department

The Earth observation has become the crucial way of empowering the scientific community, and even further, the entire society, to face the challenges of Climate change and our Planet’s health, enabling the responsible environmental decision-making. This is the focus of Ornella Bombaci’s professional efforts: to create the bridge between the state-of-art technology and its practical

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RAL Space

RAL Space carry out world-class science research and technology development with significant involvement in more than 220 spacecraft. ​RAL Space is an integral part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and is the space hub for UK Research and Innovation​, supporting its mission to create the best possible environment for research and innovation

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