Today’s physics news: Wednesday 10 February

Britain’s space industry poised for 20 years of Earth-gazing growth
The Space Innovation and Growth Team has laid out a 20 year plan to expand Britain’s space industry into a £40 bn a year business. A constellation of satellites that gaze back at Earth to, for example, monitor activity in war zones and the rate of deforestation is the strategy’s centrepiece.

Guardian
BBC

EU science – a chance for less bureaucracy and more innovation?
With the appointment of Máire Geoghegan-Quinn as the EU’s new research commissioner, Nature has taken a look at what European scientists can expect from EU science policy. 

Nature