UK Space Agency

8 February 2018 – Improved disaster response in Commonwealth states and tropical disease control are among the goals of 10 new projects involving British space organisations, Science Minister Sam Gyimah announced today.

2 February 2018 – Teams from across the UK will work on a concept for a future European mission to help reduce the global risk of damage caused by space weather.

31 January 2018 – The grants of €200,000 have been organised by the UK Space Agency and European Space Agency as a new way of applying for funding for technology developments under ESA’s General Support Technology Programme (GSTP) which has e...

30 December 2017 – The achievements of Britain’s first astronaut Helen Sharman and Professor of Space Physics Michele Dougherty have been recognised in the New Year’s honours 2018.

19 December 2017 – The Space for Smarter Government Programme has opened a call for projects addressing SSGP’s goals of helping the UK public sector to embrace space and increase the uptake of satellite data, applications and services to enab...

19 December 2017 – An exciting opportunity has arisen with the SpaceTech Incubation Initiative which is offering up to six promising space technology businesses the chance to participate in an award-winning entrepreneurs’ programme on behalf...

11 December 2017 – The UK’s world-leading space sector will help create a new Space Climate Observatory, following an agreement adopted by national space agencies today. At an event in Paris, the UK Space Agency signed up to the global agree...

7 December 2017 – The UK Space Agency has announced £200,000 of funding for 4 new business incubators to boost the number of start-up companies in the space sector across the UK. The incubators, in Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Leicestershire a...