June 2008
Production consultancy support comes to an end after 5 years at Astrium GmbH Lampoldshausen.

The ISP Group would like to thank all Astrium personnel who contributed over that time to ensuring the contract reached a successful conclusion.

February 2009
Support given to setting up of Propulsion Awareness Course in Europe (PACE) by ESA/ESTEC at ISPG Westcott facility.

The objective of the course will be to enable professionals already involved in propulsion activities across the region to receive insight and guidance concerning general propulsion industrial status and accepted practice applied throughout the field.

The course should appeal to managers, designers, engineers, or technical staff alike, providing a background of European propulsion heritage, as well as a broad overview of applicable protocols that should be applied at various levels of the discipline, in order to ensure European industry maintains high levels of performance, reliability and quality of product.

The first courses will be run in Summer 2009. Interest should be registered through the Contact Us page on the ispropulsion.com website.

May 2009
The ISP Group attended the 1st European Meeting for Space SME’s in Rome, sponsored by many agencies, including ASI and ESA.

The speakers included figures from European space agencies, politicians and representatives of industry, alongside a number of SME organisations.

The conclusions were very positive and gave a healthy impetus to current SME-oriented initiatives active around Europe. The ISP Group wishes to thank the organisers of the Meeting and all those who shared an interesting and positive dialogue.

We look forward to developing International relations in this area to forward the influence of SME’s and improve the performance of the industry as a result.