The British National Space Centre, known as BNSC, was an agency of the Government of the United Kingdom, organised in 1985, that coordinated civil space activities for the United Kingdom. It was replaced on 1 April 2010 by the UK Space Agency.
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Agency TypeUK government civil space coordinating agency, a voluntary partnership of British government departments, agencies and Research Councils 1 Founded Year HeadquartersSwindon, Wiltshire, United Kingdom 1 HeadDr. David Williams (Director General) 1 Annual BudgetGBP 268 million (UK yearly civil space budget, mid-2000s) 1 In the Other Atlases
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1. Wikipedia: British National Space Centre
WikipediaLead sentence
The British National Space Centre (BNSC) was an agency of the Government of the United Kingdom, organised in 1985, that coordinated civil space activities for the United Kingdom.
Structure section, first sentence
BNSC operated as a voluntary partnership of ten British government departments and agencies and Research Councils.
Staffing arrangements section, sentence on the Swindon move
From January 2009, the BNSC was headquartered in Swindon, Wiltshire, in the same building as the Science and Technology Facilities Council (Research Councils) and the Technology Strategy Board.
Staffing arrangements section, sentence on the last DG
The last DG, Dr. David Williams, was the first to have been externally appointed.
Staffing arrangements section, sentence on the civil space budget
Much of Britain's yearly civil space budget of £268 million was contributed by the Department of Trade and Industry (until the DTI was broken up in 2007) or controlled by the partnership rather than the BNSC, and about three-quarters of that budget flows directly to the European Space Agency.
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