UK Space Agency

6 December 2018 - Close to £1 million of government funding will be used to inspire the next generation of engineers and support future commercial range control services for UK spaceflight.

1 December 2018 – The Prime Minister has confirmed the UK will not use Galileo for defence or critical national infrastructure after Brexit. Instead, the UK will explore options to build its own Global Navigation Satellite System that can hel...

29 November 2018 – The two ‘first of a kind’ 5kg satellites which were designed and built by Spire Global in Glasgow have been launched into orbit. The satellites are unique due to their function, tiny size, low cost and quick build time.

26 November 2018 – NASA's InSight mission to Mars, supported by the UK Space Agency, has successfully landed and will soon begin the first study of the heart of the planet. The study aims to learn how planets, moons and meteorites with rocky ...

20 November 2018 – UK science will be launched into space to help tackle the effects of ageing, thanks to funding from the UK Space Agency, the Science Minister Sam Gyimah has announced.

9 November 2018 – A group of scientists and engineers in Leicester has recommended Oxia Planum as the best landing site for the British-built Mars rover. Due to land in 2021, the ExoMars rover will be the first of its kind to travel across th...

7 November 2018 – A full range of sponsorship and exhibitor packages for the UK Space Conference 2019 has now been announced.

26 October 2018 – A UK-built Mars rover was taken for a test drive in Spain’s Tabernas Desert this week, under remote control from the Harwell Space Cluster in Oxfordshire – 1,000 miles away.