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Wales in Space

The Wales Space Strategy

John Whalley

Aerospace Wales Forum

6th July 2016,

Launch of OpTIC Space Incubation Programme

OpTIC Centre, St Asaph

Let’s look back

Today in 2050

… we have a come a long way?

Let’s look back…

2018 Go ahead for Snowdonia Spaceport

2020 Spaceport opens and the first tourist flight launches

2022 weekly space trips commence

2023 ‘UK Space Valley’ development

2030 mining on the moon commences

2032 Snowdonia Spaceport wins contract to support Lunar mining

2040 Snowdonia Spaceport wins contract to support first human colony on Mars

2045 we celebrate our 10,000th launch

2050 mining on Mars commences

2025 daily flights to Australia launched

What have we

achieved?

Thousands of

of highly skilled jobs created

The North Wales economy becomes a key driver for the Northern Power House

The UK has become the European centre for space technology and exploration rivalling the US

New high tech industries

spring up

UK SpaceportSnowdonia Aerospace Centre, Llanbedr

• Coastal location, low

population and direct access

to segregated airspace

provides a robust safety

case

• EZ Designation with full

Ministerial backing

• Masterplanning and

strategic investment – site

infrastructure, ultrafast

broadband, enhanced site

access

Let’s look back

Meanwhile back on Earth…

Advanced Materials &

Manufacturing Sector

•2,800 companies across the sector

•147,000 people employed within

manufacturing

•Strengths in automotive, aerospace and

defence

•Dedicated Enterprise Zones

Toyota’s high value

‘Lean Centre’

Ford’s £24m

Eco-Boost Engine

Airbus’ fleet wings

manufacture

Wales is a centre of

excellence for aerospace

manufacturing and MRO

related activities.

Over 160 companies

employ in excess of 23,000

people.

State-of-the-art facilities

manufacture, supply,

maintain, repair and

overhaul, civil and military

aircraft from around the

world.

Aerospace in

Wales

Aerospace in

Wales

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1.Airborne Systems 2.Airbus Group3.BAE Systems 4.British Airways5.Airbus Defence and Space6.Zodiac Seating UK 7.Cytec8.Doncasters9.Faun10.General Dynamics11.GE Aircraft Engine Services 12.Marshall AG13.Magellan14.Nordam15.Qinetiq16.Qioptic 17.Raytheon18.Spectrum Technologies19.Thales 20.Tritech21.Triumph Actuation

& Motion Control Systems

Llangeinor, Bridgend

Broughton

RAF Valley and Usk

Cardiff Airport, Llantrisant and Blackwood

Newport

Cwmbran, Newport

Wrexham

Blaenavon

Llangefni

Oakdale and Newbridge

Nantgarw

Hawarden

Llay

Blackwood

Aberporth

St Asaph and Bodelwyddan

Hawarden

Bridgend

Aberporth and Llanelli

Wrexham

Buckley

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Llanelli

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Strategic Profile & key sitesAerospace & Defence

•Estimated Turnover - £6.5bn•Estimated GVA - £1.7bn•Employs – 23000 people•GVA per employee - £74000•Strength in:•Wing Manufacture•Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul•Defence Communications•RPAS/UAS test facilities•Opto electronics

● Estimate Turnover - £ ~ 7bn

● Estimate GVA - ~ £2.2bn

● Employs - ~24,000 people

● ICT Sector in Wales has the highest GVA

per employee - £92,000 (Welsh Gov)

● Strength in:

•Financial software

•Cyber security

•Systems integration

•Business application software

•Opto-electronics

•Power Electronics

•Contract Manufacturing

Strategic profile:

Wales and the EST Industry

Wales Space Sector

Strategy

The Arc of Innovation offers the global

space industry a winning combination.

Wales will support the UK’s goal of

securing 10% of £400 billion 2030

space market.

• Launched at July 2015 UK Space

Conference, Liverpool

• Industry led and developed in

conjunction with the Satellite

Applications Catapult, Oxford

• Arc of innovation Wales – enhancing

our proposition through industry /

Academia collaboration

Wales Space

Sector Strategy

• World class R&D through Wales

Academic Space Partnership

(WASP)

• Established companies – Airbus

Defence & Space, General

Dynamics

• Strategic Sites with airside

access

• Wales’ Remotely Piloted Aircraft

Systems (RPAS) environment

Wales RPAS

Environment

Wales’ RPAS

Environment

•7100sqkm of segregated airspace

with no ceiling

•Advanced optical tracking and

telemetry

•Facilitates full scale testing, training

and RPAS flight demonstrations

•An environment ideally suited for

spaceplane operations

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UK Space Growth Action Plan• Recommends that a UK Space Port be created and be in place by 2018

• Seeks to capture 10% of the £400 billion global space sector by 2030 and increase

employment from 27,000 to 100,000 high added value jobs.

• Upstream to grow to £3billion and Downstream to £37 billion by 2030.

UK Industry Growth

• Space industry turnover in 2012/13 was found to have increased by 15% in real

terms in the two years since 2010/11 (an annual average of 7.3%3), to £11.3 billion.

• Total UK space employment grew to 27,000 by 2014.

Space Sector Potential

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Space Economy

Building Blocks

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Wales• Previously not engaged with key UK space stakeholders (public and private)

• Significant R&D expertise (uncoordinated)

• Economy not preparing for projected growth in downstream and tripling of upstream to

£3 billion by 2030.

Space and Wales

No Catapult representation in Wales

UK Space Agency “Health of the UK Space Industry

Report – 2014”

Welsh industry not featured

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To:

• Support Wales bid for UK Space Port.

• Capture space knowledge to consolidate mapping undertaken.

• Provide strategy pathway for growth and evidence to communicate strategic intent

toward wider space sector.

• Seek input from public/private sector (in/out Wales).

Choice of strategy author

• Requires intimate knowledge of UK Space Growth Plan.

• Posses high level of technical specialist space knowledge and strategic foresight.

Why Strategy?

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Wales Building Blocks

• Established upstream capability.

• Significant aerospace sector.

• Strong academic sector (expertise from space and planetary robotics, solar

system physics, propulsion to optoelectronics and data visualization

solutions).

• Unique airspace capability (2,500 sq mile segregated airspace with direct

access to space).

• Range of sites with airside access and room for expansion.

• Strong innovative SME base.

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Arc of Innovation

Pendine

Llanbedr

West wales UAC Centre

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5. Llanbedr

1. Cardiff International Airport

3. Pendine Range

4. Aberporth

2. St Athan

Facility Description

1 Cardiff

International

Airport

Runways, facilities to

support aerospace

growth, secure site, new

buildings, runway

2 St Athan Runways, facilities to

support aerospace

growth, secure site, new

buildings, runway

3 Pendine

Range

World’s 2nd longest test

track

4 Aberporth West Wales Airport,

RPAS, segmented

airspace

5 Llanbedr RPAS, space, segmented

airspace

Infrastructure

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Qioptiq Space Technology

Spectrum Technologies

Teledyne Labtech

Space Companies

Doncasters

QinetiQ Pendine

QinetiQ Aberporth

TWI

IQECGi

Specialisms• Advanced semiconductor and

epitaxial products/services

• Earth Observation

• Laser wire processing

technology

• Manufacture of forged rings,

casings, blades and discs.

• Manufacture of microwave

solutions

• NDT

• Radiation stable micro-sheet

cover glass for the space

industry

• Test and evaluation rang

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Strategy is needed because:

• Will connect and integrate Wales directly with the UK Space Growth Action Plan.

• Provides evidence and structured plan to UK stakeholders.

• Provides much needed support to the UK Space Port bid.

• Provides structured way forward, from specialist, on how best to ensure that a UK

Space Port be created and be in place by 2018.

• Provides opportunity to seek share of project UK growth.

Therefore, strategy = good Value For Money

Space Strategy

Wales Space Strategy

Recommendations:

• Develop clusters

• Strengthen UAS environment

• Diversify the industry value

chain

• Develop skills for the space

sector

“Wales will continue to work as a

team member with the UK space

community to contribute toward

the realisation of the UK’S 2030

Goals”.

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Thank you for listening

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