Guidance and regulation

Guidance for the maritime industry on the threat from aerial drones and potential response options.

• From: Department for Transport
• Updated: 20 May 2024

• Countering drone threats to shipping

  Overview Aerial drones, often called uncrewed aerial systems (UAS), are a…

Guidance on submitting applications to fly drones within Restricted Airspace at Prisons and Young Offender Institutions, effective from 25 January 2024.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 23 January 2024

Information on how we are growing the UK’s satellite launch capability and spaceflight industry.

• From: Civil Aviation Authority and 4 others
• Updated: 16 January 2023

Learn about legislation and insurance requirements for UK spaceflight.

• From: UK Space Agency
• Updated: 1 June 2022

This treaty was presented to Parliament in October 2020.

• From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Updated: 8 February 2021

How spaceflight environmental objectives work and how the spaceflight regulator should interpret them when assessing applications.

• From: Department for Transport
• Updated: 25 June 2021

Find out the third-party liability insurance requirements and operators’ indemnification obligations for licences issued under each Act.

• From: UK Space Agency
• Updated: 1 June 2022

This call for grant proposals is now closed.

• From: UK Space Agency
• Updated: 15 January 2019

This issue includes features on the space emergency service, a mission to remove space debris, and a celebration of the Cassini Huygens mission.

• From: UK Space Agency
• Updated: 16 November 2017

Competition to run the first-ever aircraft flight powered by 100% sustainable aviation fuel between the UK and the US.

• From: Department for Transport and 1 others
• Updated: 16 December 2022

On the 8th February 2018, the UK Space Agency hosted its largest networking opportunity for the space applications community to meet other application developers, investors and funding bodies.

• From: UK Space Agency
• Updated: 15 March 2018

Find information on satellite licence fees for constellation operators (under the Outer Space Act 1986 and Space Industry Act 2018).

• From: UK Space Agency
• Updated: 1 June 2022

This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition seeks proposals for novel and innovative solutions for screening and detection to protect the UK aviation system and wider borders.

• From: Defence and Security Accelerator and 2 others
• Updated: 5 May 2019

How to apply for a licence to conduct a commercial spaceflight activity from the UK.

• From: Civil Aviation Authority and 4 others
• Updated: 29 July 2021

Information on how we use drones to obtain aerial images of accident sites.

• From: Air Accidents Investigation Branch
• Updated: 7 June 2018

The Space for Smarter Government Programme (SSGP) aims to increase awareness and stimulate uptake of space data and satellite applications in the public sector.

• From: UK Space Agency
• Updated: 26 January 2018

Liabilities and insurance requirements for commercial spaceflight to operate from the UK, as set out under the Space Industry Act 2018.

• From: Department for Transport
• Updated: 27 September 2021

All of the information required to participate in the UK Space Agency's SatelLife Challenge 2018.

• From: UK Space Agency
• Updated: 2 January 2018

This treaty was presented to Parliament November 2015.

• From: Closed organisation: Foreign & Commonwealth Office
• Updated: 18 November 2015

The UK Space Agency announces an opportunity to propose ideas for experiments for flight on the International Space Station, to provide further flight opportunities to the growing UK microgravity science community.

• From: UK Space Agency
• Updated: 18 December 2017