Thought Leadership

What the sector needs to compete in the new space race The 1969 moon landing came after John F. Kennedy boldly set out to overtake the Soviet Union in the space race. In 2019, there is an entirely different contest occurring as rival nations set t...

As part of Tomorrow’s Engineering Week 2019, the UK Space Agency’s Skills & Careers Lead, Kathie Bowden, details the array of early career engineering opportunities across the UK space sector. Engineering opportunities in the UK space sector f...

July It was a golden July for the global space industry as people around the world celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Appropriately, it was a very busy month for the UK space sector, demonstrating how far it has come ov...

UKspace Chair, Graham Peters, writes ahead of a campaign launching shortly calling for a national space programme, backed by significant new funding because “the moment for the Government to act is now.” As climate change climbs the politica...

UKspace Chair, Graham Peters, considers what the key initial steps are required towards developing a UK National Space Programme. In 1962, John F Kennedy made an historic speech about the United States’s ambitions in space. “We choose to go to the...

In the latest edition of our quarterly series, UKspace looks back on the second three months of 2019 and highlights some of the key activities coming out of the UK space sector. April The second quarter of 2019 began with news of the two health-re...

Space is enabling growth for the UK economy. This boost is being felt in many areas of our daily lives. From agriculture to transport, many sectors have been transformed, bringing us closer and closer to a space-enabled future. But, many are still...