At the forefront of UK space science research, the Science and Technology Facilites Council operates one of the largest space research laboratories in Europe at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
The Council plays a pivotal role, coordinating the design, development, construction and testing of many space instruments as well as providing operational instrument control facilities and receiving, processing and making available data to the research community. The Council is a lead partner in the British National Space Centre and a main contractor to the European Space agency (ESA) and NASA.
We work with universities, research institutes, industry and government agencies around the world to provide leadership and management, as well as satellite- and ground-based instrumentation, testing and data handling, for international missions in:
- meteorology
- earth observation
- atmospheric science
- solar and solar-terrestrial physics
- planetary science
- astronomy
- radio communications
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Page last updated: 15 August 2007
by Andy Mckinna
