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| Abbreviation | BNSC |
| Formed | 1985 |
| Type | Space agency |
| Administrator | Ian Pearson |
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The British National Space Centre (or BNSC) is a voluntary partnership between eleven UK government departments and research councils. It was formed in 1985 in order to coordinate UK civil space activities. The UK civil space programme focuses on space science, Earth observation, satellite telecommunications, and global navigation (e.g. using systems like GPS and Galileo).
Rather than being a full space agency as maintained in other countries, the BNSC consists of around fifty civil servants on rotation from other government departments. Much of Britain's yearly space budget of US$414 million is contributed by the Department of Trade and Industry or controlled by the partnership rather than the BNSC, and over half of that budget flows directly to the European Space Agency.[1] The budget for BNSC headquarters is nearer US$2 million.[2]
BNSC Partners
- Department of Trade and Industry, and its subsidiary Office of Science and Technology
- Department for Transport
- Ministry of Defence
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Department for Education and Skills
- Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
- Natural Environment Research Council
- Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council
- Meteorological Office
See also
- National Space Centre
- Douglas Millard, An Overview of United Kingdom Space Activity 1957-1987, ESA Publications.
References
- ^ BNSC - How we work, BNSC website, retrieved 9 March 2007: "In the year 2005-6, BNSC's partners spent £207 million on space programmes - about 65% of which was the UK's contribution to European Space Agency projects like Cassini-Huygens, Envisat and Galileo."
- ^ British Audit Finds Strengths, Needs in Space Program, Peter de Selding, Space News, 29 March 2004.
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