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Meet the team designing petrol stations in space
A company developing "cosmic petrol stations" to extend the lives of satellites and enable missions to travel further says it hopes they will be in space by 2027.
Orbit Fab, based at the Harwell Space Campus, in Oxfordshire, recently won £1.3m from the UK Space Agency’s National Space Innovation Programme, external.
The funding has contributed to its Spitfire project, which aims to make refuelling in space a reality.
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Oxford's Sophie Law went along to meet the team and find out more.
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