UK Space Agency

Happy International Women in Engineering Day! The UK Space Agency is helping celebrate #INWED17 by showcasing some inspiring female engineers and their space careers from across the UK.

20 June 2017 –Plato (Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) was adopted at the European Space Agency’s Science Programme Committee meeting today (20 June 2017), following its selection in February 2014. That means work to build the sci...

31 May 2017 – The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation and its UK partner the British Interplanetary Society are pleased to announce the winners of the Sir Arthur Clarke Centenary Awards.

28 May 2017 – The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation is pleased to announce the Finalists of the 2017 Sir Arthur Clarke Awards.

19 April 2017 – The UK Space Agency and their French counterparts, CNES, have reached a ground-breaking new agreement to work together to tackle climate change.

The UK Space Agency has awarded just under £150,000 to three business incubation centres across the UK which will support entrepreneurs and small companies in the space industry. The Agency is working with UK industry to deliver world-class scienc...

1 March 2017 – The UK Space Agency has announced the appointment of a new Chief Executive, Graham Turnock. Graham has been Chief Executive of the Better Regulation Executive, a unit within the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial St...

21 February 2017 – The UK Space Agency and partners have brought together government and industry to enable satellite launches from the UK by 2020.