Key facts

Star gazing

NASA occasionally use a ground observatory in Dundee to track spacecraft during their missions

World leaders

Scotland has world-leading expertise in space battery technology, miniaturisation of spacecraft systems and space borne instruments

Space-Wire leaders

Scotland has a long association with data communications language Space-Wire, with the International Space Wire standard being developed here

Mission possible

Scotland is recognised as a world leader in the CubeSat platform

Space world-wide

Scottish companies and research groups are significant contributors to major word-wide space projects

UK economy generation

The wider UK space sector supports 68,000 jobs and generates around £6 billion a year to the British economy

40,000

Almost 40,000 staff are directly employed by the aerospace industry in Scotland

840+

More than 840 companies are involved in the aerospace defence and marine sector

£5 billion

Sales of over £5 billion are generated by Scottish-based companies in this sector

Global players

Vector, Teledyne, Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems, Thales, SELEX Galileo, Babcock Marine and Raytheon Systems all have a significant Scottish presence