Thought Leadership

In the final edition of our 2019 quarterly series, UKspace looks back on a very significant and busy last three months of the decade, highlighting some of the key activities coming out of the UK space sector. October The final quarter of 2019 bega...

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...

In the latest edition of our quarterly series, UKspace looks back on the third quarter of 2019 and highlights some of the key activities coming out of the UK space sector. July It was a golden July for the global space industry as people around th...

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...