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===Industrial area=== Stevenage Development Corporation zoned an area for industry between the East Coast railway line and the A1 road, which came to be known as Gunnels Wood Industrial Area. An additional area for industry has since been developed at Pin Green.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Stevenage Official Guide |publisher=The British Publishing Company Limited |year=1979 |page=49}}</ref> The primary industrial area is in a location that is separate—but adjacent to—the residential areas of town. [[British Aerospace]] (now [[MBDA]]) was the largest employer in this area, but it has now been replaced by [[GSK plc|GSK]]. The firm occupies a large complex, hosting one of GSK's two global R&D hubs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gsk.com/en-gb/media/press-releases/gsk-unveils-plan-for-one-of-europe-s-largest-life-science-campuses-in-stevenage/ |title=GSK unveils plan for one of Europe's largest life science campuses in Stevenage|date=16 July 2021 |access-date=6 March 2024}}</ref> [[Airbus | Airbus Defence and Space]] (previously British Aerospace) is located in a smaller industrial park.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ukspacefacilities.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/Airbus-DS-Stevenage.aspx|title=Airbus DS Stevenage |access-date=6 March 2024}}</ref> This is the same area that both [[Matra Marconi Space]] and [[Astrium]], a prime contractor and equipment supplier of spacecraft, previously occupied.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/people/ap32632/matra-marconi-space |title=THE SCIENCE MUSEUM GROUP: Matra Marconi Space |access-date=6 March 2024}}</ref><ref> {{cite web |url=https://connectivity.esa.int/contractors/eads-astrium-sas|title=EADS ASTRIUM SAS |access-date=6 March 2024}}</ref> The site is used to assemble a number of spacecraft and rovers including [[Rosalind Franklin (rover)|''Rosalind Franklin'']]<ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-11-24 |title=UK-built Mars rover saved from museum retirement |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-63741201 |access-date=2024-11-29 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref> and the [[Solar Orbiter]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Speare-Cole |first=Rebecca |date=2020-02-08 |title=Solar Orbiter designed in UK to embark on 'significant space mission' |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/space-orbiter-uk-space-mission-a4357126.html |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=The Standard |language=en}}</ref> and conduct analysis on others such as the [[NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return#Earth Return Orbiter (ERO)|Mars Earth Return Orbiter]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Marklew |first=Philip |date=2020-10-19 |title=Airbus to bring first Mars samples to Earth |url=https://aerospaceglobalnews.com/news/airbus-to-bring-first-mars-samples-to-earth/ |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=AGN |language=en-en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-10-28 |title=Earth Return Orbiter’s first step to Mars |url=https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2021-06-earth-return-orbiters-first-step-to-mars |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=Airbus |language=en}}</ref> There are also small- to medium-sized firms such as [[Jackie Hunter|Stevenage BioScience Catalyst (SBC)]], a new science park aimed at attracting small and start-up life-sciences enterprises, opened in 2011 on a site next to GSK.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.stevenagecatalyst.com/news/minister-for-universities-and-science-performs-top/|title=Minister for Universities and Science performs topping-out ceremony |date=13 July 2011 |access-date=6 March 2024}}</ref>
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