Policy paper
Draft Spaceflight Bill
Sets out how the government plans to regulate launch-to-orbit and sub-orbital spaceflight activities from UK spaceports.
This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
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Details
This document contains:
- a joint ministerial forward from the Department for Transport and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
- draft Spaceflight Bill
- explanatory notes to the draft Bill
The draft Bill is part of a wider government programme to stimulate the market for space activities (primarily small satellite launch) and sub-orbital spaceflight activities in the United Kingdom from 2020.
Updates to this page
Published 21 February 2017