UK space industry looks to the future in optimistic mood [News Analysis]

Britain is in the vanguard as the Space Age enters an exciting new era. It's a truIsm that people take technology for granted, rarely stopping to think how their mobile phone works or why the lights come on when they flip a switch. this seems especially true of space applications, perhaps because the technology is that much more remote; arguably because, in the UK, its achievements are poorly publicised.