Free satellite data to help tackle public sector challenges
25 October 2018 – The UK Space Agency’s Space for Smarter Government Programme (SSGP) will provide access to archives of images and radar data for research and development projects.
Mercury’s mysteries to be probed by British Science
19 October 2018 – In the early hours of tomorrow morning (Saturday 20 October) a spacecraft made possible by the best of UK space science is set to blast off bound for Mercury. BepiColombo is the first European Space Agency mission to Mercury...
UK and Australia enter into space agreement
3 October 2018 – The UK and Australia will co-operate on activities including communications technologies, space situational awareness and satellite navigation, Science Minister Sam Gyimah announced today. The Memorandum of Understanding, sig...
Spacecraft bound for the Sun due to leave Stevenage factory for testing
17 September 2018 – The UK-built Solar Orbiter is preparing to leave the Airbus factory in Stevenage to travel to Germany for testing, ahead of its launch in 2020 from Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA.
Space sector to benefit from multi-million pound work on UK alternative to Galileo
28 August 2018 – UK industry will benefit from a £92 million injection to design a national alternative to the EU’s Galileo satellite system, ensuring UK security post Brexit. The money has been allocated from the £3 billion Brexit readiness ...
UK Space Agency Steering Board seeks new Chairperson
23 August 2018 – Britain’s space industry is going from strength to strength and the UK Space Agency - an Executive Agency of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - is driving the growth of the sector.
Britain competes for the launch of an estimated 2,000 satellites by 2030
9 August 2018 – This morning at his first visit to the site of a future UK spaceport in Sutherland, Business Secretary Greg Clark expanded on the commercial opportunities to be gained, saying that Britain has a competitive advantage to compet...
Wales announced as host for UK Space Conference 2019
17 July 2018 – The UK Space Agency has today announced that the 2019 UK Space Conference (9-11 July 2019) will be hosted at the new International Convention Centre (ICC) near Newport in Wales.