Giant leap for Irish firm based in East Cork in tracking satellites in orbit

It’s one small step for a US rocket company, but one giant leap for a specialist Irish firm.

The National Space Centre, based in East Cork, is celebrating, after becoming the first to use Irish-based infrastructure to remotely track and monitor the deployment of satellites in orbit. It did so last weekend.

And after boldly going where no Irish firm has gone before, it is now well-positioned to exploit future opportunities in the growing commercial space sector.