§ 26. Mr. Michael Marshallasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what commercial opportunities he envisages as a result of his Department's funding of scientific satellites.
§ Mr. William SheltonThe involvement in satellites of the Research Councils funded by my Department is almost entirely through international collaborative programmes of the European Space Agency. The United Kingdom's manufacturing industry benefits in proportion to the United Kingdom's contribution, and is in a strong position to bid for complete spacecraft, sub-systems and scientific instruments. In future there will be opportunities for those of our service industries which can make good use of data generated by scientific satellites, for example in remote sensing.