{"id":398358,"date":"2026-01-30T07:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/398358\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T07:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:56:07","slug":"new-stevenage-space-labs-will-help-small-tech-firms-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/398358\/","title":{"rendered":"New Stevenage space labs will help small tech firms grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New laboratories and testing facilities to be offered free of charge to UK businesses who work in the space industry will &#8220;break down barriers&#8221;, the company behind the project has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Airbus Launchpad has been opened by the global manufacturer at its base in Stevenage, Hertfordshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 50 people from small and medium-sized businesses and research organisations can use the site for development work after a \u00a33.9m investment by the UK Space Agency, which was matched by Airbus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kata Escott, the company&#8217;s UK managing director for defence and space, said the sector was important for the economy but &#8220;we can&#8217;t rest on our laurels, we need to keep innovating&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New laboratories and testing facilities to be offered free of charge to UK businesses who work in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-398358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}