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Space start-ups generated almost £9 million in investment and created 80 new jobs after taking part in a UK Space Agency-backed business support programme.
The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and the UK Space Agency will investigate ways to collaborate more closely.
A teenager from Derby has won a competition run by the UK Space Agency calling for innovative ideas on how satellites can improve life on Earth.
A team from the University of Glasgow has won a government-run competition to develop a climate change satellite for launch from the UK.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
Funding for pioneering new space technologies will help to cut carbon emissions, improve energy security and enhance the UK’s reputation as a science superpower.
A research satellite from RHEA Group, built by Open Cosmos, completes the line-up of satellites set to launch from Spaceport Cornwall this year.
Virgin Orbit’s next satellite launch will take place from the UK, following the success of the “Straight Up” mission.
Europe's two-part mission to Mars
InSight is investigating the interior structure and composition of Mars, uncovering how a rocky body forms and evolves to become a planet.
The new measures will demonstrate the UK’s commitment, ambition and drive to improve the UK’s sustainable use of space.
A dancing robot dog called SPOT stole the show at the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s (UKAEA) first robotics open event at Culham Science Centre on Saturday.
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.
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.
Scout missions can prove new concepts using small satellites, which can then be scaled up in larger missions.
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