The U.K. Space Agency (UKSA) is an executive agency of the UK government responsible for the United Kingdom's civil space program. Established in 2010, it drives growth in the space sector, supports scientific research, and fosters international collaboration. UKSA plays a major role in delivering the government's National Space Strategy, catalysing investment in the UK space sector, enabling missions and capabilities and championing space for the benefit of our planet and its people. The agency works with industry and academia and manages the UK's relationship with the European Space Agency (ESA).
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The UK Space Power doctrine notes that the blurring of lines between civilian and military, government and commercial activities has increased complexity in space.
The United Kingdom released 'UK Space Power' on September 1 as a doctrine publication focused on the space domain.
The UK Space Power document provides a basis for understanding the utility of the space domain in a military context.
The UK Space Power document states that space offers political choice through its ubiquity and pervasiveness and is not solely a military endeavor.
The UK Space Power doctrine highlights the UK-US military space alliance as a critical relationship for accessing various space services.
MDA’s U.K. unit partnered with debris removal startup Astroscale to study the feasibility of a UK Space Agency-funded mission to remove two satellites from low Earth orbit by 2025.
Spaceport Cornwall is operated by a consortium comprising Virgin Orbit, the UK Space Agency, Goonhilly Earth Station, and the Cornwall Council unitary authority.
Lockheed Martin is a strategic partner to the UK government and is working with the UK Space Agency to conduct northern Europe’s first vertical satellite launch from the recently approved SaxaVord Spaceport.
Lockheed Martin’s investment forms part of a wider £7 million investment into engineering facilities for research and teaching at Northumbria University funded by the Office for Students, the UK Space Agency, and Northumbria University.
The U.K. Space Agency funds companies like Oxford Space Systems and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. to deliver new space capabilities intended to help tackle challenges including disaster monitoring, urban planning, and transport management.
NORSS provides orbital analyst technical services to the UK Space Agency.
SatixFy partnered with OneWeb under the ESA Sunrise Partnership Project with support from the UK Space Agency to develop a compact electronically steered multi-beam array suitable for mobility services over both LEO and GEO satellites simultaneously.
Odin Space has raised $500,000 in pre-seed funding and secured two grants from the UK Space Agency.
Inmarsat, Goonhilly Earth Station Limited, and GMVNSL Limited are delivering UK Space Agency-funded tests with the European Space Agency via ESA’s Navigation Innovation and Support Program (NAVISP).
The UK Space Agency awarded about $1,500,000 last year via the European Space Agency’s Navigation Innovation and Support Programme (NAVISP) to the companies conducting the first phase of the UKSBAS tests.
The planned UK Space-Based Augmentation System (UKSBAS) will use an overlay signal to improve satellite navigation services in U.K. airspace and waters and increase positioning accuracy to a few centimeters compared with the few meters provided by standard GPS.
John Auburn secured funding income of more than $30,000,000 from the European Space Agency, the UK Space Agency, and other government and industry partners.
The UK Space Agency provided continued support to develop Astroscale’s ELSA-M technology toward commercial debris-removal services.
SaxaVord has been chosen to host the UK Space Agency’s UK Pathfinder launch, which will be delivered by Lockheed Martin and ABL Systems in 2022.
Orbex is funded by BGF and Octopus Ventures, Heartcore Capital, the High-Tech Gründerfonds, strategic investor Elecnor, the UK Space Agency, the European Space Agency, and the European Commission Horizon 2020 programme.