Wales dreams of the cosmos as small-nation space race heats up – The National

Wales dreams of the cosmos as small-nation space race heats up – The National

Andrew Bacon would ideally like humanity to “make things in space and leave Earth as a nice garden”, but until that day comes, he hopes to be part of an industrial rebirth closer to home.

His satellite-making start-up, Space Forge, is a centrepiece of Wales’s space ambitions – a big vision for a small country to become a centre for futuristic industries.

Wales's dream to lead the world in sustainable space tech by 2040 is the latest sign of how a cosmos once dominated by Cold War superpowers is now within the grasp of smaller nations such as Wales and the UAE and rich pioneers such as Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson.