Thinking space: Martin Ditter explains why the European Space Agency has set up a UK technology outpost

摘要

Harwell, near Oxford, is one of the UK's premier hubs for science and technology. For many years the headquarters of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, it's now the home of the Science and Technology Facilities Council's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, the ISIS X-ray source and the Diamond synchrotron light source. It's also now home to a new European Space Agency (ESA) research facility: the ESAUK Harwell Centre.