2021年1月25日
Monday, March 6, 2017
从The Manufacturer–英国(2017年3月5日)– Space is taking off in Britain, so what can the nation’s aerospace industry learn from Florida’s example? Quite a lot, as Destin Wells, business development manager for Aviation & Aerospace at Enterprise Florida, explains.
2月9日星期二,特雷莎·梅政府公布了一项全新的计划,旨在增加英国在商业航天市场的创新。作为该计划的一部分,英国政府推出了一项价值1000万英镑的赠款计划,以使英国企业能够创造和发展航天能力。在宣布这一消息之后,还可能出台一项单独的太空飞行法案,该法案可能在未来几周内出台。
该计划的目标是提高英国在世界航天市场中的份额:目前估计未来20年,这个市场的价值将达到250亿英镑。随着英国着手建立和发展自己的航天产业,或许应该从美国佛罗里达州汲取灵感。
Building an industry
Florida’s impressive history in groundbreaking space flight is indisputable. Lest we forget Apollo 11: responsible for getting Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the moon, launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida in July 1969.
如果认为这是佛罗里达州对航空航天工业贡献的巅峰时期,或许会有些天真。如今,几乎所有大型航空航天公司都在该州拥有重要业务,因为它是创新的理想场所。考虑到基本资源的可用性,这一点也不奇怪;该行业已有85000名员工,这一点不言而喻。
为了帮助该行业的发展和顺利向商业运营商的转变,而不是政府支持的努力,该州于2006年推出了佛罗里达太空计划。该旗舰项目旨在“通过与该领域的企业合作并为其提供支持,促进佛罗里达州可持续发展和世界领先的航天工业的增长和发展”。
As a sister organisation to the state’s economic development organisation Enterprise Florida, Space Florida was specifically designed solely for the purpose of expanding the aerospace industry.
Space Florida has attracted a number of high profile companies from across the world because it offers a range of financial mechanisms to support hi-tech development and manufacturing facilities, alongside a network of fully licensed commercial spaceports usable by horizontal and vertical launch vehicles. That’s in addition to an incubator with both laboratory and office space that is perfect for start ups as well as operational storage facilities.
The Kennedy Space Center (operated by NASA) and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (45th Wing U.S. Air Force) are home to some of the world’s leading aerospace companies. Commercial companies such as – United Launch Alliance (Delta 1V), Boeing Corporation (NASA’s Space Launch System) and Lockheed Martin (Atlas V), ensure that Florida maintains and indeed furthers its stature as the world’s leading rocket launch site. However, there are also some new kids on the block.
BlueOrigin是佛罗里达吸引的市场领先公司之一。由电子商务巨头亚马逊的创始人杰夫·贝佐斯创立。BlueOrigin的航天服务旨在让付费客户体验“太空边缘之旅”,在返回地球之前,他们可以在那里体验几分钟零重力。“蓝色起源”号的飞行目前正在由训练有素的宇航员进行测试,计划在2018年向公众发射。
Blue Origin has utilised the facilities available within the district to create its own unique spaceflight manufacturing facility. The plant represents an important development for space work in Florida as Blue Origin will not just be launching rockets from this location, but also manufacturing all the vehicles there too. At 750,000 square feet, the custom-built factory is designed to be large enough to accommodate manufacturing, processing, integration, and testing of orbital rockets.
SpaceX is also another leading business based in Florida. Its owner, Elon Musk – of Tesla Motors fame – has just announced plans to undertake the first commercial flight around the moon in 2018, while carrying two ‘space tourists’.
英国企业的机遇
一段时间以来,英国一直与佛罗里达州及其航天工业保持着关系。8年前,佛罗里达州与UKTI(现为国际贸易部)签署了一份谅解备忘录,而马克·加尼尔议员和国际贸易部一名成员在2017年初访问了佛罗里达州,讨论进一步合作的发展。
One example of a UK business that has operations on the Space Coast is Intelligent Energy (IE), which delivers clean energy solutions (fuel cells) for the aerial drone, distributed energy, diesel replacement and automotive markets.
Its CEO, Martin Bloom explained: “The concentration of engineering expertise in the region is very high. Couple that with the pro-commercial business and infrastructure support from Space Florida, it makes for a very solid choice of locations to support IE’s R&D requirements”.
As the commercial space industry continues to grow with businesses such as Blue Origin, OneWeb Satellites and SpaceX, there are significant opportunities for UK businesses to collaborate and play a significant role in the supply chains of these huge projects.
对于那些正在佛罗里达州寻找国际合作和发展机会的企业来说,佛罗里达企业在英国有服务to support businesses on taking their first step.
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