UKspace

Satellite 2020 Conference (Washington DC)
2020-03-09 - 2020-03-12 | Walter E Washington Convention Center, 801 Mt Vernon Pl NW, Washington, DC, WA, DC 20001, United States
The Satellite Conference consists of the most relevant and important topics facing both satellite industry and end-users, and gathers a diverse group of thought leaders to share their viewpoints. The format and content are built specifically with delegates in mind, so they can easily chart a path during Satellite week that will benefit their business.
The Satellite programme immerses attendees in the expansive satellite and space community, with forward-looking themes throughout the sessions, technology and business updates to keep delegates abreast of trends in the marketplace and technical content that peeks behind the curtain on some of the most innovative advancements in the industry.
Over the four-day conference, there will be more than 70 sessions led by 200+ technology & connectivity experts, including a keynote speech by Elon Musk.

DIT Latin America and the Caribbean UK Roadshow
2020-03-09 - 2020-03-13
Are you an experienced exporter thinking of expanding to a region full of vibrant and lucrative markets? If you’re considering exporting to Latin America and the Caribbean (LatAC), you can get the latest on the business environment and export opportunities in the region from 9-13 March 2020, thanks to a roadshow travelling round the country, organised by the Department for International Trade (DIT).
At the roadshow. Her Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for LatAC Jo Crellin and eight DIT country directors will be updating UK companies on the latest opportunities in these exciting markets. The events take place on the following dates in the following locations:

9 March: Manchester
10 March: Birmingham
11 March: London
12 March: Bristol
13 March: Cardiff & Belfast

Register your interest
Places are strictly limited, so please register your interest, by 10 February 2020. You can also email DITevents@brayleino.co.uk for additional information.
Download the LatAC Roadshow flyer

Until the end of time
2020-03-07 14:00 - 15:30 (Europe/London) | The Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4BS, United Kingdom
The Universe is astoundingly vast both in time and in space, and yet appears to be governed by simple, elegant, mathematical laws. Guided by these laws, world-renowned physicist Brian Greene will take us on a journey from our most refined understanding of the universe’s beginning to the closest science can take us to the very end. He will explore how life and mind emerged from the initial chaos, and how our minds, in coming to understand their own impermanence, seek in different ways to give meaning to experience: in narrative, myth, religion, creative expression, science, the quest for truth, and our longing for the timeless. He will show it is within these pursuits that we experience profound wonder and create great beauty, even as the universe and all it contains is destined for decay.
Through a series of nested stories that explain distinct but interwoven layers of reality – particles to planets, consciousness to creativity, matter to meaning – Greene will provide us with a clearer sense of how we came to be, a finer picture of where we are now, and a firmer grasp of where we are headed. With this grand tour of the Universe, beginning to end, we can all understand and appreciate our fleeting but utterly exquisite moment in the cosmos.
Ticket prices:

Standard £16
Concession £10
Ri Members and Ri Patrons £7

Full details and booking

Handprints on Hubble: An astronaut's story of invention
2020-03-06 19:00 - 20:30 | The Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4BS, United Kingdom
The Hubble Telescope has revolutionised our understanding of the Universe. It has, among many other achievements, revealed thousands of galaxies in what seemed to be empty patches of sky and measured precisely how fast the universe is expanding.
In this Royal Institution talk, the first American woman to walk in space, Kathryn Sullivan, recounts how she helped launch, rescue and maintain Hubble, the most productive observatory ever built.
Please note, Kathryn will be signing books and books only following the talk.
Ticket prices:

Standard £16
Concession £10
Ri Members and Ri Patrons £7

Full details and booking

SPACEtalks.biz
2020-03-05 09:00 - 17:00 | County Hall, County Hall, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 7PB, United Kingdom
SPACEtalks.biz is a new international launch conference and exhibition with a purely commercial focus. It is designed for the Space Sector with focus on practical topics tackling everyday commercial and innovation matters.
Explore topics across the future business of space including Collaborative Initiatives, Law & IP, Space Finance & Investment, Insurance, Communications, Security, Manufacturing and everything in between.
The conference includes a series of highly focused stand-alone presentations backed by panel discussions on the most contemporary trends in the Space Economy. It will provide a unique opportunity to discuss and experience the future of the industry, as well as meet and network with key industry leaders.

Space Life and Biomedical Sciences Symposium
2020-03-04 10:30 - 17:00 | Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Harwell, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0FA, United Kingdom
With the UK set to build its space launch capacity, as well as its involvement in national and international space programmes, opportunities to increase cross-sector engagement to maximise terrestrial benefit are key.
The UK is internationally renowned as a leader in life sciences and chemistry R&D, health care delivery and in particular, has a heritage of world leading aviation medicine experience. Specialist research associations like the UK Space Life and Biomedical Sciences Association (UK Space LABS) and others have been working with these communities to increase awareness and understanding of our fields of endeavour, to facilitate improved collaboration between the space and health sectors as they have developed.
This symposium is timed to bring the innovation communities and institutions of these sectors together to discuss interfaces between disciplines and sectors, share current opportunities and updates and help to inform the future strategy for cross-sector collaboration.
Full details and registration

Canadian Space-Data Partnering Event
2020-03-04 08:45 - 16:30 | Satellite Applications Catapult, Electron Building, Fermi Avenue, Harwell Campus, OX11 0QR, United Kingdom
Global Affairs Canada is organising a Space-Data Partnering Mission to the UK from 2-6 March 2020, aiming to establish a collaborative R&D network of Canadian and British companies and research partners active in the global geo-information market.
This event aims to broker innovation by identifying opportunities to foster collaboration through seminars, panel sessions, matchmaking, and networking sessions. Both UK and Canadian participants will identify opportunities that address their strategic position and competitive advantages in creating, transporting, integrating and applying satellite-derived information, products and services for operational applications.
Further information and registration

NxtGen: Skills Development Workshop
2020-02-27 10:00 - 12:30 | ESA ECSAT, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Fermi Avenue, Harwell, Oxfordshire, OX11 0FD, United Kingdom
**This event is only open to Harwell Campus Nxt Gen colleagues**
The title of this Connect Harwell workshop is ‘How to become an effective, inspiring leader’. Whether you are in a leadership position, leader of a project or would like to become a leader in the future, this workshop is for you.
Full details and registration

Space Innovators networking event: February 2020
2020-02-26 14:00 - 16:00 | Westcott Business Incubation Centre, Westcott Venture Park, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP18 0XB, United Kingdom
Westcott Business Incubation Centre is inviting people for coffee and cake at its monthly Space Innovators networking event on 26 February. It will feature a presentation by Tom Greenwood, the London & South East Regional Ambassador from ESA Business Applications.
Register for this networking event

TotalDECOM International Conference
2020-02-26 09:00 - 17:00 | Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG, United Kingdom
This one-day event will examine and discuss important issues related to the evolving and innovative commercial approaches to decommissioning and remediation of energy facilities across the globe. Senior international experts from the oil and gas, nuclear and renewables sectors together with independent speakers will explore a range of high level, cross-cutting topics relevant to the energy industries including:

Business models for decommissioning
Policy and regulation
Financing and investment

Among the speakers will be representatives from the European Space Agency and Astroscale.
See the full conference agenda
You can register for this event by clicking on the link below.

Joint techUK/UKspace Position, Navigation and Timing committee (PNTC) meeting
2020-02-25 14:00 - 16:30 | Ingenuity Centre, Jubilee Campus, University of Nottingham, Triumph Rd,, Nottingham, NG7 2TU, United Kingdom
Agenda TBC
A sandwich lunch will be available from 13:00.
Please register to attend here
Parking facilities
Since the meeting is taking place during term time, parking spaces will be scarce. Therefore, if coming by car, please park in the visitor car parks on Jubilee Campus. Change will be required for the pay and display. Visitor parking charges apply in the general visitor car parks and tickets must be displayed at all times:

Up to 30 minutes (free)
2 hours (£5.00)
4 hours (£7.00)
All day (£10.00)

Alternatively, if attendees could provide their car licence plate details to paul.bhatia@grace.ac.uk well in advance, he will try to get parking passes posted to you. This would enable you to park anywhere EXCEPT the visitor car parks.

Connect Harwell
2020-02-25 03:00 - 16:30 | Atlas Building, Fermi Avenue, Harwell Campus, OX11, United Kingdom
This networking event will include presentations from Harwell Space Cluster members LIFT ME OFF, MDA and StressMap.
Full details and registration

Catapult Coffee Morning
2020-02-19 10:00 - 11:00 | Satellite Applications Catapult, Electron Building, Fermi Avenue, Harwell Campus, OX11 0QR, United Kingdom
This month’s Satellite Applications Catapult’s coffee morning will feature a presentation from Michaela Kiernan who works on the ESA Technology Broker Network, within the Science & Technology Facilities Council.
Further details and registration

Satuccino: Extra Shot
2020-02-05 14:30 - 16:30 | Runway East, 10 Finsbury Square , London, United Kingdom
Join the Satellite Applications Catapult and community of entrepreneurs and businesses based at Harwell by video link with the British Antarctic Survey’s (BAS) AURORA Innovation Centre.in Cambridge.
Further information and registration

UKspace Security and Defence Committee Meeting
2020-02-04 10:30 - 13:00 | Inmarsat, 99 City Road, London, EC1Y 1AX, United Kingdom

Space to Connect 2020
2020-01-14 09:30 - 19:30 | Queen Elizabeth II Centre, Broad Sanctuary, London, SW1P 3EE
This is free to attend Space Applications networking event hosted by the UK Space Agency and European Space Agency.
Now in its third year, this day-long event provides the opportunity to meet new companies, organisations, and individuals who are innovating at the forefront of the Space Applications sector, as well as others new to this journey.
You will have the chance to explore the future opportunities coming up in Space Applications, meet potential new collaborators, and perhaps find a new business partner or consortium member. There will also be thematic sessions from wider industry with presentations and information updates throughout the day, including best practice sessions to help you turn your Space Application ideas into reality.
Come along to this free to attend event and celebrate the growth in the Space Applications sector including how we are working with our international partners.
Lunch will be provided and the day will conclude with a Networking Drinks Reception sponsored by the European Space Agency Business Applications and Space Solutions team.
The agenda for the day will be made available via the UK Space Agency website closer to the event.
You can also coordinate your day with other attendees through the Space to Connect LinkedIn Group.
You can follow us on @spacegovuk and @ssgp_uk as well as use the hashtag #Space2Connect2020 on twitter to follow all the activity in the lead up to the event and on the day.
Register online for this event

Free talk: The amazing power of light – making stars on earth and other exciting stories”.
2019-12-12 17:30 - 19:00 | Space Store, 45 Orchard Street, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 7LG, United Kingdom
This awesome talk from Ric Allot of STFC will focus on the incredible power of light and in particular high power lasers. We can use these amazing machines to make and study stars on earth, measure the distance to the moon or even manufacture parts for space craft.
Complimentary alcoholic beverages will be available to adults!​

Space Stories - The First Child Astronaut
2019-12-05 17:30 - 19:00 | Space Store, 45 Orchard Street, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 7LG, United Kingdom
Author Sue Palmer will be talking about Michael May, the main character in May’s Moon and his attempt to become the first child astronaut.
Sue will look at what it takes to become an astronaut and how space can benefit us all on earth. Come and share your knowledge of space, have a go at Sue’s quiz and be in with a chance of winning a prize.
Open to children and adults. Adults can enjoy a complimentary alcoholic beverage!
About Sue Palmer: Based in South Oxfordshire, Sue writes adventure stories for 8 to 12-year-olds. Her May’s Moon Trilogy tells the story of 13 year old Michael May’s dream of becoming the first child astronaut. At it’s heart, it’s a story about chasing dreams and what happens when those dreams start to become a reality. Sue runs workshops for schools, festivals and bookshops, weaving the space research she carried out for her writing into her fictional stories. Creating her May’s Moon adventures has given Sue a real interest in past, current and future space exploration and she loves meeting astronauts.

2019 UKspace Christmas Cocktail Reception
2019-12-02 18:00 - 20:00 | Lancaster House, Stable Yard, St. James's, London, SW1A 1BB
This event is by invitation only

Joint techUK/UKspace Satellite Telecommunications Committee meeting
2019-12-02 13:00 - 16:00 | CGI (Fenchurch St), 20 Fenchurch St, London, EC3M 3BY, United Kingdom
This event is by invitation only​.
Registration will be essential to gain admittance to this meeting, plus photo ID will be required by the building’s Reception staff.
Further details: https://www.techuk.org/events/meeting/item/15823-joint-techuk-ukspace-satellite-telecommunications-committee

Exploring Inner Space
2019-11-28 17:30 - 19:00 | Space Store, 45 Orchard Street, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 7LG, United Kingdom
Talk plus Q&A with the BBC’s Andy Torbet.
Using cutting-edge technology, similar to that used by astronauts, or nothing more advanced than a snorkel, Andy Torbet has explored the underwater world across the globe. The Inner Space is the closest thing to going to another planet as one can get, with an environment hostile to human life but with wonders to discover. From alien creatures, abandoned mines, unexplored caves, lost shipwrecks, calving glaciers, arctic iceberg and more the underwater world is like another planet with so much left to explore
Complimentary alcoholic drinks available to adults. Children also welcome.

SPRINT Showcase Event
2019-11-25 13:00 - 18:30 | Institute of Physics, 37 Caledonian Road, London, N1 9BU
As well as showcasing the best of SPRINT projects and benefits to businesses, the event will look to the future of space sector growth in the UK and the uptake of space-enabled innovations across industry, society and government.
At the event, SPRINT will be showcasing some of the great projects and small businesses that the programme is supporting, and will be exploring future space technology trends and investigating how universities can support businesses better in exploiting these.
Agenda:

13:00 Lunch, Arrival and Registration
14:00 Welcome and Introductions
14:15 Keynote. SPRINT Company Stories.
15:15 Networking, Exhibitions, Coffee
15:45 SPRINT Company Stories. Panel Discussion; Future of space sector growth in the UK. Uptake of space-enabled innovations across industry, society and government.
17:00 Drinks Reception, Networking, Exhibitions
18:30 Close

SpaceCom 2019
2019-11-20 - 2019-11-21 | George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, Texas, United States
SpaceCom is America’s Commercial Space Conference and Exposition, addressing the strategic issues impacting the commercial space industry that will enable businesses to set a clear course to gain a competitive advantage in the coming trillion-dollar space economy.
This year, the Department of Commerce’s Office of Space Commerce and the Department of Energy’s Office of Technology Transitions join NASA and the commercial space industry in collaborating on the development of the show. Attendees will include people from executive management, legislative affairs, business development, R&D, CTOs, engineers and scientists from aerospace, government, international space agencies and other industries.

Space Tech Expo Europe
2019-11-19 - 2019-11-21 | Messe Bremen, WFB Wirtschaftsförderung Bremen GmbH, Findorffstrasse 101, Bremen, 28215, Germany
In its third year, Space Tech Expo Europe is the continent’s major dedicated supply-chain and engineering event for manufacturing, design, test and engineering services for spacecraft, subsystems and space-qualified components. The exhibition and conference draw attendance from thousands of industry leaders, decision makers, engineers, specifiers and buyers to meet manufacturers across the supply chain for civil, military and commercial space.

Space Growth Partnership (SGP) Trade & Exports meeting
2019-11-11 14:00 - 16:00
This meeting is by invitation only. Confirmation of the meeting details will be provided in due course.​

UKspace Space Science and Exploration (SSEC) Committee Meeting
2019-11-06 11:00 - 12:30 | 1 Victoria Street, Westminster, London, SW1E 5ND, United Kingdom
This meeting is by invitation only]]>

UKspace EO Committee Meeting
2019-11-05 14:00 - 16:30 | Satellite Applications Catapult, Electron Building, Harwell, OX11 0QR

Westminster Business Forum policy conference: UK space sector
2019-10-31 09:00 - 13:00 | Central London (TBC)
The UK space sector – developing the National Space Programme, commercialisation and access to finance, and the future for international collaboration
CPD Certified event
This seminar will discuss the future for the UK space sector. It comes as industry and government work towards a National Space Programme, with ambitions for launch in April 2020, as part of a Sector Deal, and follows the Prosperity from Space strategy which sets out the sector and government priorities for earth observation, global connectivity, in-space robotics and access to space.
Sessions will consider how best proposed policy initiatives such as the National Space Programme, Sector Deal and the National Space Council can support the continued growth of the sector and what more needs to be done to reduce the skills gap, support access to finance and utilise the regulatory framework to enable the sector to grow.
In advance of ESA’s Ministerial level Council meeting, Space19+, the event will also be an opportunity to discuss the sector’s priorities, particularly in the area of how the ESA’s funding can best support the UK space sector.
The conference will feature a keynote address from Magali Vaissiere, Director, Telecommunications and Integrated Applications and Head, ECSAT, Harwell UK, European Space Agency.
Other confirmed speakers include: Graham Peters, UKspace; Space Growth Partnerhsip and ADS; Glenn Caplin, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly LEP; Tim Just, Innovate UK; Captain Dave Moody, MoD; Peter Mountney, Odin Vision; Professor Anu Ojha, UK National Space Academy and STFC Council; Nik Smith, Lockheed Martin; Joanne Wheeler, Alden Legal; and speaker confirmed from Inmarsat
Agenda

Commercialising UK space – key priorities from industry;
Future collaboration between the UK and Europe
Ensuring success to finance for innovate businesses
Facilitating the futrue growth of the UK space sector
Where next for UK space

Download full agenda
Further details about the conference
Register online for this conference

Food Security and Resilience Copernicus Hackathon
2019-09-19 08:00 - 2019-09-20 20:00 | University of Leicester, Leicester Innovation Hub, 128 Regent Road, Leicester, LE1 7PA, United Kingdom
The Food Security and Resilience Copernicus Hackathon will be held at the University of Leicester Innovation Hub from 19-20 September 2019. It is aimed at coders, researchers, scientists, designers, storytellers, problem-solvers, and anyone enthusiastic about addressing challenges faced by us all.
Teams will work collaboratively using Copernicus data ‘coding experience’ practically to develop solutions to address global and local needs applicable to us all based on specific food security challenges.
SPRINT is proud to be one of the sponsors of the hackathon.
Further information and registration for the hackathon

Security and Defence Committee meeting
2019-09-17 10:00 - 12:30 | ADS Group, Salamanca Square, 9 Albert Embankment, London, SE1 7SP, United Kingdom
This meeting is by invitation only, open to members of the UKspace Security and Defence Committee​.
