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John Abbott
CEO of the Satellite Applications Catapult, the UK's space technology and innovation organisation, and a guest on the In-Orbit podcast.
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Oct 6, 2026
Building the UK's Innovation Future: Part One
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24:21John AbbottGUEST
um in the northeast of the uk who make rf components for starlink satellites and are i was up there the other day i was up where you okay so you can talk about them and you can see a whole bundle of people with good jobs in a part of the country that really needs good jobs and you're walking around a company that's a bona fide unicorn um yeah a company with a To Tom's point about academia, we don't probably talk enough about companies like MagDrive, two Imperial graduates, met at Imperial, raised money from Founders Fund, and have an ambition to create a propulsion system that will be on every satellite in space.
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24:59John AbbottGUEST
And there's going to be an awful lot of those as we go forward over the next sort of 10, 20 years.
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25:03John AbbottGUEST
And they're a business that's over there in Harwell that is where they build the propulsion systems at the moment.
Dallas CampbellHOST
Just With this bit of background, what's changing at the Satellites Applications Catapult? Where's the direction of travel for you?
