The King later travelled to Harwell, where he officially opened the UK Space and Defence Gateway, a new hub designed to strengthen collaboration across the space and defence sectors.<\/p>\n
He unveiled a sustainable plaque to mark the occasion at the Gateway, which sits at the heart of the Harwell Space Cluster.<\/p>\n
The facility is aligned with the King’s Sustainable Markets Initiative’s Astra Carta, a framework launched when he was Prince of Wales to promote sustainability in the space sector.<\/p>\n
During his visit, the King toured RAL Space, the UK’s National Space Laboratory, which supports work on climate monitoring, biodiversity and environmental resilience.<\/p>\n
The Harwell Space Cluster is Europe’s largest concentration of space organisations, supporting more than 120 space firms and more than 330 defence and security organisations.<\/p>\n
At the Gateway, he viewed demonstrations from leading space companies and the European Space Agency before meeting representatives from industry, government, academia and the investment community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The King later travelled to Harwell, where he officially opened the UK Space and Defence Gateway, a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-685254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685254","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=685254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}