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The UK Government will invest £30 million to secure the UK’s leading role in developing a space telescope to explore exoplanets.
Gaia’s latest major data release reveals new detail on nearly 2 billion stars, providing largest ever catalogue of information on stars in our galaxy.
A new European Space Agency science mission, proposed by the UK, to 3D-map a comet for the first time has reached a major milestone.
An ambitious Defence Science & Technology agenda, backed by £2 billion of investment, including an exciting new satellite launch, has been commissioned today.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
Dstl's miniaturised space weather instrumentation suite will be aboard Virgin Orbit which is aiming to launch from Spaceport Cornwall later in 2022.
A 12-year-old from Hampshire has been named the winner of Blue Peter’s Awesome Orbit competition to design an emblem that will go on one of the first satellites to launch from the UK this summer.
The UK Space Agency has welcomed news that the British rocket company Orbex has unveiled the first full-scale prototype of its Prime orbital space rocket.
Monitor Your Satellites is a pilot service from the UK Space Agency, providing Space Surveillance and Tracking information to UK-licenced satellite operators.
Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng appoints Lord David Willetts as Chair of the UK Space Agency’s Board.
The number of UK space jobs continued to grow into 2020, despite the global impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new figures released today.
A 6-year-old from Bolton has won a competition to design a logo that will be displayed on the first rockets launching satellites from the UK later this year.
UK government statement on agenda item 8, of the 61st Legal Sub-committee of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) at the United Nations.
British space technology will help pioneer new approaches to energy, communications and resources, thanks to new projects from the UK Space Agency
The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) will launch its first satellites in 2022 in the next phase of growing the UK’s space research capabilities.
The UK will invest £1.4 billion to bolster our national interests in space, as part of the first Defence Space Strategy published today.
A government-backed experiment which could help people live longer, healthier lives is set to launch to the International Space Station on Tuesday 21 December.
The UK Space Agency welcomes the news that British company Orbex is constructing a state-of-the-art rocket test facility in Kinloss, Scotland.
A new project to map existing work to tackle climate action through the use of space technology and identify what more could be done has been launched by the UK Space Agency and the United Nations at COP26.
Satellite data will be used to monitor and map heat in locations at greatest risk from climate change in one of two new projects being backed by the UK Space Agency.
The Government‘s Nanosat Design Competition has opened for entries, with aspiring space scientists invited to design a small satellite to help inform solutions to climate change.
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