Local Democracy Reporting Service.<\/a><\/p>\nCouncillor Andrew Judson, lead member for economy, planning and regeneration, described the plans as “a genuinely exciting opportunity for Keighley and for the whole of our district”.<\/p>\n
“We already have a strong and growing space, radio frequency and advanced manufacturing cluster across the Aire Valley – but crucially, this is about people as well as technology,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We are being asked to make a strategic investment in Keighley’s future as a place to create and innovate, strengthening our position as an emerging UK space hub.”<\/p>\n
The facility would cover about 1,400 sq m of industrial testing space and 200 sq m of training space, equipped with specialist technology.<\/p>\n
It would include a vacuum chamber, thermal chamber, humidity chamber and a vibration table to recreate conditions encountered in space, the plans say.<\/p>\n
A report described the \u00a39m project as “a rare opportunity to secure a globally backed investment that would create the North’s only space testing facility”.<\/p>\n
The site would also “generate high-skilled jobs, develop local talent and establish the district as a nationally important hub for advanced manufacturing and space technology,” it added.<\/p>\n
The local authority’s contribution to the scheme would be funded entirely from its \u00a319.8m Local Regeneration Fund, formerly known as the Levelling Up Fund.<\/p>\n
At an executive meeting on 8 September, members will be asked to provide a grant to company MPG Europe’s BSC Filters Ltd, a brand under Dover Corporation’s MPG operating company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bradford could be home to a space testing facility if a \u00a39m scheme is agreed by the council.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":["post-872654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}