UK Space Minister announces more than £500m to national space programmes. UK will also focus more sharply on four areas:
🛰📲 Satellite Communications
🛠️ In Orbit Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing
📡 Space Domain Awareness
🚀 Launch for assured access to space
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A photo of a 3m high light box at a conference showing a JWST NIRCam/MIRI image of the Pillars of Creation with pink, brown and white masses of swirling nebulosity against an orange and purple starry backdrop.
A photo of the U.K. Space Agency stand at Space-Comm Expo Europe showing crowds on the stand and a 3m high light box featuring a high-res Solar Orbiter image of the Sun.
A photo of a light box showing a Euclid mission image of a star forming region. Blue white, brown and yellow tendrils of gas swirl across a starry black background peppered by numerous distant galaxies.
Ready for day two of Space-Comm Expo Europe! Come and visit the @ukspaceagency.bsky.social stand to speak to our programme teams and see our lightboxes highlighting some of the great space missions that the UK is at the heart of.
We are pleased to announce that Rebecca Evernden has been appointed as Director of the new UK Space Agency, taking up the post 1st April.
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We brought together communications experts from across the space sector for a Workshop to move the conversation about space communications from identifying challenges to taking meaningful action.
Read our insights: space.blog.gov.uk/2026/02/25/r...
#ScienceCommunications #Space
We brought together communications experts from across the space sector for a Workshop to move the conversation about space communications from identifying challenges to taking meaningful action.
Read our insights: space.blog.gov.uk/2026/02/25/r...
#ScienceCommunications #Space
We are pleased to announce that Rebecca Evernden has been appointed as Director of the new UK Space Agency, taking up the post 1st April.
@ukspaceagency.bsky.social @fasikcl.bsky.social @ukspace.bsky.social @spacecentre.bsky.social
Leicester experts investigate ways scientists can safely collect extra-terrestrial samples 👽!
The Space Park Leicester team is working with the UK Space Agency to identify a pathway forward to exploit this unique British technology.
www.space-park.co.uk/2026/02/leic... #Space #Science
Come join us at Space-Comm Europe for a panel discussion on role of #Space tech & science in UK #SoftPower!
⏲️ 08:45 – 10:00
📅 4 March 2026
📍 Room 17, South Gallery, Excel London
Register to attend: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
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Come join us at Space-Comm Europe for a panel discussion on role of #Space tech & science in UK #SoftPower!
⏲️ 08:45 – 10:00
📅 4 March 2026
📍 Room 17, South Gallery, Excel London
Register to attend: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
@ukspace.bsky.social @bfpg.bsky.social @royalsociety.org
UK Space Agency launches Skills for Space, a new internship programme for 50 paid placements across the UK space sector to give young people hands-on experience and industry exposure.
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Chuong Van Dang, Chief of Staff at Magdrive, Paul Bate, CEO of the UK Space Agency, Mark Stokes, CEO and co-founder of Magdrive, Anotonia Yendell, Head of Space Ecosystem at the UK Space Agency. Credit: Stuart Harrison / Magdrive
A new laboratory helping UK companies test satellite engines has opened at Harwell Campus.🚀
The DEEP Lab, built by Magdrive with support from us, gives businesses access to specialist testing facilities for electric propulsion systems. 🛰️
Read more 👉 www.gov.uk/government/n...
UK Space Agency CEO, Dr Paul Bate.
After 4.5 years leading the UK Space Agency, our CEO, Dr Paul Bate is stepping down in March.
Under Paul's leadership, the Agency secured record ESA investment, welcomed 3 new UK astronauts & expanded national space funding.
We wish Paul all the best.
Read more 👉 gov.uk/government/n...
Airbus Launchpad opening with Kata Escott, Managing Director Airbus Defence and Space UK, Kevin Bonavia, MP for Stevenage, and Craig Brown, Director of Investment at the UK Space Agency. Credit: Airbus
New facility at Airbus Defence & Space to boost UK space SMEs opens with £3.9 million @ukspaceagency.bsky.social backing.
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Beyond the Blackout: Satellite Connectivity and the Erosion of Informational Sovereignty in Iran
An important reminder that satellites don't just project a state's economic/military power - but informational power as well.
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@awisnational.bsky.social @womeninstem.bsky.social @royalsociety.org @esa.int @royalastrosoc.bsky.social #STEM #WomenInSTEM @spacekate.bsky.social @issibern.ch
📢 Can we get the message out to future space scientists & engineers?
The @britishcouncil.bsky.social 2026-27 Women in STEM Scholarships are now open.
They are working with UK universities to provide up to 90 scholarships to women across 30 countries.
www.britishcouncil.org/study-work-a...
ColKa (Columbus Ka-band antenna). Credit: ESA–M. Cowan.
NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover installing the Columbus KA-band antenna (ColKa) outside ESA’s Columbus laboratory on the International Space Station. Credit: ESA/NASA
Five years of ColKa! 🎉
On this day in 2021, the UK's first industrial contribution to the International Space Station was installed. 🛰️
Built by MDA Space UK and funded by us, ColKa transmits data faster, revolutionising how scientists in the UK and Europe access experiment results. 📡
🚜 🛰️ @ukspaceagency.bsky.social is supporting two innovative projects that will use satellite data and digital tools to help farmers make more informed decisions, boost productivity and care for the environment.
space.blog.gov.uk/2026/01/20/u...
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Great @britsciassoc.bsky.social & @ukri.org report on public attitudes to science.
🔬 82% thought scientists made a valuable contribution to society
64% agreed that science made a direct contribution to economic growth.
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The £20m Westcott Space Hub opens to boost UK space innovation and create hundreds of jobs - supported by @ukspaceagency.bsky.social funding!
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🪐 The #ExoMars team at the University has welcomed the UK Space Agency’s renewed backing for the Rosalind Franklin rover mission, a flagship project that will see Europe’s first Mars rover launch in 2028.
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My first attempt at lunar photography!
✨ Congratulations to Prof. Brian Cox on his appointed as the UN Champion for Space!
Wonderful to see a UK academic taking on such an important leadership role in a global institution
#ScienceDiplomacy #SoftPower
We’re lucky at the moment to have a comet visiting the inner Solar System that’s bright enough to see with a pair of binoculars, and it may in the coming week or so just reach naked-eye visibility.
To find out more, see the @ukspaceagency.bsky.social blog: space.blog.gov.uk/2025/10/21/c...
🛰️ Critical UK satellites to be defended from laser threats
New sensors will be developed by @ukspaceagency.bsky.social & UK Space Command that will identify laser threats from adversaries to UK military and civilian satellites.
A "One Government" approach to space!
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@ukspaceagency.bsky.social announces £6.5m funding for 23 projects supporting UK space collaboration with global partners.
🚀 UK is a key partner of choice in international collaboration in space and our leadership in space science & tech is a source of UK Soft Power!
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UK tech has launched on NASA IMAP! 🚀
The mission will help to protect satellites and ensure safer human space exploration.
@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social’s MAG instrument, funded by us, will provide crucial data to improve our understanding of space weather. ☀️
👉 www.gov.uk/government/n...
UK- US tech partnership that will see AI models developed by NASA and @ukspaceagency.bsky.social to support science and exploration missions.
Another example of the UK as a partner of choice for international collaboration on space tech and science!
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It was “One Government” for space in action yesterday as the @ukspaceagency.bsky.social joined our UK Space Command colleagues in the space zone at #DSEI2025!
Catalysing investment in the space sector delivers economic growth and the capabilities for national security.
#space #defence
It was “One Government” for space in action yesterday as the @ukspaceagency.bsky.social joined our UK Space Command colleagues in the space zone at #DSEI2025!
Catalysing investment in the space sector delivers economic growth and the capabilities for national security.
#space #defence
