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UK Government selects Open Cosmos as approved provider for £8bn sovereign communications framework

September 2nd, 2026 Posted in News

Oxfordshire-based space company, Open Cosmos, has been selected by the British Government Commercial Agency (GCA) as an officially certified and vetted partner to provide satellite connectivity via its low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation, Connecte...

Teledyne team members who worked on H4RG 10 imaging sensor

Teledyne surpasses 1,000 scientific imaging sensors in space with launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

August 31st, 2026 Posted in News

Teledyne detector technologies aboard NASA’s flagship astrophysics mission will support investigations into dark energy, exoplanets, and the evolution of the Universe Teledyne Space Imaging, a leading supplier of space-qualified imaging sens...

RFI: Future UK space regulatory sandboxes and innovative regulatory tools

August 20th, 2026 Posted in News

The UK Space Agency is inviting ideas to help identify priorities for future regulatory sandboxes and other innovative regulatory tools/approaches. This builds on the UK government’s implementation of the Space Regulatory Review (SRR) and ou...

Jaltek joins the Norautron Group

August 7th, 2026 Posted in News

Jaltek Ltd has been acquired by Norautron AS, marking an exciting new chapter for its business. Headquartered in Horten, Norway, with branches in Norway, Sweden, Poland, China and Malaysia, Norautron is an international provider of advanced electr...

Intuitive Machines completes acquisition of Goonhilly and COMSAT

August 3rd, 2026 Posted in News

Following its announcement on 14 May 2026 regarding its proposed acquisition by Intuitive Machines, Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd (“Goonhilly”) is pleased to confirm that the transaction has now completed, following the satisfaction of required cond...

DBIST creation impact for UK space sector

DBIST: A strategic opportunity for the UK space sector

July 29th, 2026 Posted in Thought Leadership

Following the Prime Minister’s decision to bring together business, innovation, science and trade into a single department, responsibility for the UK Space Agency will transfer into the new Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (D...

King Charles opens UK Space and Defence Gateway 1920

His Majesty The King officially opens the UK Space and Defence Gateway at Harwell Science and Innovation Campus

July 10th, 2026 Posted in News

His Majesty King Charles III visited the UK’s largest space cluster today to officially open the UK Space and Defence Gateway, an initiative aligned with the principles of the Sustainable Markets Initiative’s (SMI) Astra Carta, a global fram...

Dr Alice Bunn appointed Co-Director of UK Space Agency

July 3rd, 2026 Posted in News

UKspace congratulates Alice Bunn on her appointment as the new Co-Director of the UK Space Agency within the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. Alice’s extensive experience in and outside of Government will bring additional c...

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