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Space-Comm Expo 2025 confirmed as UK’s largest and most influential space industry event

March 18th, 2025 Posted in News

Over 5,400 delegates, 190 exhibitors and 200 speakers from across the global space industry attend Space-Comm Expo 2025 at ExCeL London 11-12 March Space-Comm Expo 2025 recorded a record number of delegates, speakers and exhibitors from over 50 na...

Record UK contract wins through European Space Agency

March 11th, 2025 Posted in News

A dramatic increase in the money flowing to the UK from European Space Agency (ESA) programmes has been announced today, with an additional £112 million (€134 million) in contracts secured for the UK space sector between June 2022 and December 202...

Sentinel-1C: New radar satellite launched into space

December 6th, 2024 Posted in News

The Sentinel-1C satellite launched on a VEGA-C rocket and will orbit 700km above the Earth’s surface. Part of Europe’s Copernicus programme, it will use advanced radar technology to provide continuous imaging over land and sea, day and night, and ...

UK and New Zealand agree blueprint for satellite removal and servicing missions

October 17th, 2024 Posted in News

The UK and New Zealand space agencies have signed a blueprint for the removal and servicing of operational satellites that are very close together or making contact with one another. The arrangement, signed at the International Astronautical Congr...

Goonhilly to boost deep space communications capacity

October 16th, 2024 Posted in News

Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd (Goonhilly) will provide deep space communications services to the UK Space Agency and international partners from its satellite Earth station in Cornwall, under a new contract announced today (16 October) during the In...

Lough Neagh satellite image (Copernicus)

New initiative launched to use Space-Based Technology to predict and monitor Blue-Green Algal Blooms in Lough Neagh

October 10th, 2024 Posted in News

The UK Space Agency, in collaboration with NI SPACE and the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA), today launched a £360K Small Business Research Initiative (or SBRI) competition seeking potential satellite applications ...

Manchester to host 2025 UK Space Conference

September 26th, 2024 Posted in News

Space professionals from organisations across the UK will descend on Manchester in July 2025 for the UK Space Conference. Sponsored by the UK Space Agency, the biennial event brings together organisations with an interest in space to meet, network...

2.5 milliion pound funding for satellite projects

£2.5 million for satellite data pilots to benefit citizens and businesses

August 22nd, 2024 Posted in News

Ten projects have been awarded £2.5 million as part of the UK Space Agency’s Unlocking Space for Business programme. The pilot projects, which have been awarded grants of up to £400,000 each, will trial new solutions that use satellite data and se...

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