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• Updated: 16 May 2024

As our planet becomes increasingly reliant on space, the UK is working to be at the forefront of space protection and sustainability.

• Updated: 16 May 2024

Information on how the The Met Office delivers space weather services.

• Updated: 16 May 2024

This report was issued in May 2024 and covers the time period 1 April 2024 to 30 April 2024 inclusive.

• Updated: 16 May 2024

New regulatory review for space sector has been published, and Science and Defence Ministers launch National Space Operations Centre.

• Updated: 16 May 2024

The UK Space Agency has announced its largest investment into an early-stage technology programme to enhance the UK’s Earth observation technologies, to improve how space is used to understand and protect the planet.

• Updated: 14 May 2024

The UK Space Agency will fund 15 projects across the UK designed to engage and inspire the next generation into STEM careers.

• Updated: 10 May 2024

£1.8 million from the UK Space Agency will boost British organisations with promising technologies to support space capabilities.

• Updated: 8 May 2024

Find answers to questions about space junk, the risk to satellites in orbit, and how space sustainability can help, as well as the UK Space Agency's work to address these issues.

• Updated: 3 May 2024

The Minister for Science, Research and Innovation has responded to recommendations made by the Regulatory Horizons Council on the regulation of space technologies.

• Updated: 25 April 2024

UK astronaut Dr Rosemary Coogan says she is proud to be a step closer to space after a graduation ceremony today (22 April 2024) following her European Space Agency training.

• Updated: 22 April 2024

The UK Space Agency and Canadian Space Agency have signed an enhanced MoU to further areas of cooperation and information sharing on space.

• Updated: 10 April 2024

Eleven projects that showcase the best of UK space expertise on the international stage have secured a funding boost from the UK Space Agency.

• Updated: 8 April 2024

The UK Space Agency is opening an office in Wales for the first time.

• Updated: 2 April 2024

Up to £60 million is available for innovations that will help boost the UK’s satellite communications sector, following the record number of global satellite launches in 2023.

• Updated: 27 March 2024

The UK Space Agency is opening new headquarters at the Harwell Science Campus’ Space Cluster in Oxfordshire, and offices in Scotland, Wales and the Midlands.

• Updated: 25 March 2024

6 projects across the UK’s growing space sector have been announced today at Space-Comm Expo, following publication of the government’s Space Industrial Plan.

• Updated: 7 March 2024

Advice on opportunities to strengthen the UK’s sovereign space capability.

• Updated: 27 February 2024

The UK Space Agency has announced a £10 million funding competition that will help UK companies put their technologies at the forefront of a new generation of global telecommunications services, products and applications. 

• Updated: 26 February 2024

A joint UK Space Agency/NASA mission to observe and map the heliosphere — the area of space surrounding the Sun.

• Updated: 21 February 2024