UKspace

15 January 2016 – MPs yesterday took part in a debate about space policy in the House of Commons Chamber. This debate was scheduled by the Backbench Business Committee following a bid from Dr Philippa Whitford and Patrick Grady.

11 December 2015 – On 7-8 April 2016, the first ever Disrupt Space Summit will take place at the GOP Varieté-Theater in Bremen. The event aims to bring together 300 innovators to use entrepreneurship to tackle existing challenges and needs us...

22 October 2015 – The Space Innovation Growth Strategy team are pleased to announce that Dr Steve Welch of the Knowledge Transfer Network has been appointed as interim director for the Space IGS.

9 October 2015 – Draft versions of the Horizon 2020 work programmes for 2016-17 have now been published by the European Commission. These documents are ‘pre-publication’ versions and will provide potential participants with the currently expe...

28 August 2015 – UK Space Directory is back! The Knowledge Transfer Network are pleased to welcome existing and future members of the directory and directory users to the new website.

17 August 2015 – The Satellite Finance Network (SFN) has launched the BackonBoard project which aims to introduce individuals with financial, management, strategy, legal, technical, risk management or commercial experience to start-up compani...

11 August 2015 – ESA has signed an agreement with the £83 million (€116 million) Seraphim Space & Special Situations Fund to work alongside ESA’s Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) Applications programme. The Fund will al...

14 July 2015 – The UK space industry continues to make progress towards its target of 10 per cent share of the global space market by 2030, according to the Space Innovation and Growth Strategy (IGS) update report unveiled at the UK Space Con...