Space technology and the rapidly growing 5G network could provide a helping hand to the logistics sector - but the UK Space Agency and ESA need your ideas. Now, the UK Space Agency, ESA and other government bodies want innovative firms to propose ways to use the latest technologies to make the industry more efficient. Government bodies including the UK Space Agency, European Space Agency and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport are working together on the plans that could see new satellites launched to support the logistics industryThe UK Space Agency, ESA and others want businesses to present suggestions that could help to close the digital divide for firms operating in the logistics sector. 'Access to constant connectivity regardless of location offers huge benefits,' said Catherine Mealing-Jones, director of growth at the UK Space Agency. The UK already hosts the European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications in Harwell, Oxfordshire and this will be an extension of that.

Source: Daily Mail July 09, 2020 10:26 UTC