UK Space Agency

6 July 2015 – The UK Space Agency has published its National Strategy for Space Environments and Human Spaceflight, ahead of British ESA astronaut Tim Peake’s maiden voyage, expected in December 2015

17 June 2015 – The Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) Consortium Agreement, signed by France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK, will see its members doing more to monitor and track space objects and detect their uncontrolled re-entry into ...

27 April 2015 – Students from Croydon and Esher Primary Schools will soon be sending their own experiments into space after winning the Astro Pi “Big Idea” competition. Blasting to the top amongst hundreds of entrants, their ideas will now be...

26 March 2015 – The UK Space Agency has this week (26 March 2015) announced 7 new space projects that will see UK companies working with international partners to develop satellite technology in emerging economies.

24 March 2015 – The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation is pleased to announce the opening of nominations for the 2015 Sir Arthur Clarke Awards. The awards recognise and reward those individuals and teams that have made notable or outstanding achieve...

24 March 2015 – The UK Space Agency has joined forces with SETsquared - Europe’s top university business incubator programme - to help foster new innovations in space-related technology.

19 March 2015 – The UK Space Agency is pleased to announce that 7 proposals have been awarded funding, totalling £1.67 million, for research related to ESA’s planetary exploration programme.

16 March 2015 – With Philae now receiving twice as much solar energy as it did last November when it finally came to rest in a shaded spot on Comet 67P, the communication unit on the Rosetta orbiter has now been switched on to call the lander...