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Lord Drayson, Minister of State for Science and Innovation, has today officially announced the establishment of a new European Space Agency (ESA) facility at Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, which is being developed by global property group Goodman.

The establishment of the new ESA facility in Oxfordshire is a first for the UK and will capitalise on the country’s world-leading expertise in space science and technology. The ESA facility is expected to be a key element of a much wider vision for the future of the UK’s fast-growing space economy, through the creation of an International Space Innovation Centre (ISIC) at Harwell.

The ESA facility will focus on three key areas – combining data and images from space satellites to create new applications for everyday life, climate change modelling, and the development of new technologies to explore the Moon and Mars.

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