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Monday, 10 February 2020
The UK-built Solar Orbiter spacecraft successfully launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida shortly after 4am today (Monday, 10 February). ...
Tuesday, 05 November 2019
Virgin Orbit UK Limited will use the investment to develop advanced equipment and operational capabilities...
Sunday, 03 November 2019
Pacific island countries vulnerable to climate change will benefit from space technology to help them plan for and prevent natural disasters, thanks t...
Wednesday, 11 September 2019
The Mission and Agile Nanosatellite for Terrestrial Imagery Services (MANTIS) satellite, which received funding today will help energy and mining busi...
Tuesday, 16 July 2019
The UK’s capabilities were boosted today with 10 projects receiving a share of £2m to develop technologies that could transform weather forecasting an...
Tuesday, 16 July 2019
The UK and US space agencies have signed a statement of intent, which paves the way for UK commercial satellite communication and navigation services ...
Thursday, 23 May 2019
Innovative ideas from crime-fighting drones to tracking down trolleys are among the winners of the UK Space Agency’s SatelLife competition for young p...
Thursday, 25 April 2019
Collaboration between the UK and France has developed a sophisticated forecasting instrument that will set new standards of accuracy in short term wea...
Friday, 22 March 2019
Investments in space programmes bring significant benefits for society, a new report shows. ...
Thursday, 28 February 2019
A space control centre in the UK has been used to test-drive a prototype Mars rover thousands of miles away in Chile’s Atacama desert....
Friday, 09 November 2018
Due to land in 2021, the ExoMars rover will be the first of its kind to travel across the Martian surface and drill down to determine if evidence of l...
Friday, 19 October 2018
In the early hours of tomorrow morning (Saturday 20th October) a spacecraft made possible by the best of UK space science is set to blast off bound fo...
Wednesday, 17 October 2018
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission is a step closer to launch as a UK built device is delivered to Thales Alenia Space in France....
Monday, 08 October 2018
The UK Space Agency has joined a campaign to encourage more girls to study science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) and consider careers in s...
Wednesday, 03 October 2018
The United Kingdom and Australia will co-operate on activities including communications technologies, space situational awareness and satellite naviga...
Wednesday, 22 August 2018
A British-built satellite equipped with a 3.4-Kilowatt laser, as powerful as 840 lightbulbs, will be launched into space this evening. ...
Tuesday, 17 July 2018
7 cutting-edge science projects receive a share of £4.7 million government funding. ...
Monday, 16 July 2018
Lockheed Martin and Orbex are investing in space launch operations and bringing innovative new technology to Britain, Business Secretary Greg Clark an...
Friday, 13 April 2018
The winners of the SatelLife competition, aged between 13 and 21, will go on to pitch their ideas to a panel of ‘dragons’ from the space sector....
Tuesday, 10 April 2018
A group of UK universities has been awarded £4.8 million from Research England to enhance research and innovation in the UK space industry. ...
Thursday, 08 February 2018
Improved disaster response in Commonwealth states and tropical disease control are among the goals of 10 new projects involving British space organisa...
Thursday, 18 January 2018
The UK Space Agency and CNES signed a joint statement to step up co-operation in space, at the UK-France Summit in Sandhurst today (Thursday 18 Januar...
Thursday, 07 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 acro...
Friday, 13 October 2017
A UK-built satellite which will be part of Europe’s world-leading environmental monitoring programme – Copernicus – has been successfully launched tod...
Friday, 15 September 2017
After two decades in space, the remarkable journey of the Cassini spacecraft comes to a dramatic end on Friday 15 September....
Monday, 24 July 2017
AlSat Nano has been successfully operating in orbit for over 9 months. As it approaches its one year milestone we provide a status update and a summar...
Tuesday, 20 June 2017
A mission searching for habitable planets orbiting alien stars has been given the green light to move into the construction phase....
Friday, 21 April 2017
The CEOI has reached its 10th anniversary, during which time it has funded more than 50 new technologies....
Wednesday, 19 April 2017
UK and French space agencies have reached a ground-breaking new agreement to work together to tackle climate change....
Friday, 24 March 2017
Twelve young space entrepreneurs have won a share of £50K for innovative ideas on how to use satellite data to improve life on Earth....
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