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 Agency supports a space sector that generates £18.6 billion in annual revenue and employs 55,000 people across the United Kingdom.
The CarbSAR mission also received longer-term support from the UK Space Agency and the Defence and Security Accelerator.
The UK Space Agency plans to deploy 13 optical telescopes in five countries as part of Project NOVA.
#T-TeC is sponsored by ESA, ASI, AIDAA, AIAD, SGAC, CEAS, and UKSA.
Orbit Fab received a $3.8 million contract from the UK Space Agency and ESA to lead a European consortium on next-generation satellite refueling technology under the ASTRAL program.
The Airbus RAFTI feasibility study is funded by the UK Space Agency and the European Space Agency’s RADICAL program.
Spaceflux works with the UK Space Command, the UK Space Agency, and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory.
The memorandum provides a mechanism for South Korea to formally join the UK Space Agency and NASA on the CASTOR project.
Challenge Works manages the UK track of the Aqualunar Challenge on behalf of the UK Space Agency.
Spaceflux works daily with UK Space Command, the UK Space Agency, and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory.
NOSA, UKSA, and SNSA contribute to the LUMIO mission.
SFL Missions will integrate the HelioSwarm instrument suite developed by the University of New Hampshire with the Centre National d’Études Spatiales, the U.K. Space Agency, and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
SFL Missions will integrate the HelioSwarm instrument suite developed by the University of New Hampshire with partners at the Centre National d’Études Spatiales, the United Kingdom Space Agency, and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
The ELSA-M mission is majority self-funded and receives additional backing from the UK Space Agency through ESA’s ARTES program.
In February, the UK Space Agency awarded about 295,000 pounds to British startup OrbiSky to design a payload for producing ZBLAN fluoride glass optical fiber in low Earth orbit.
ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher signed funding arrangements with the Swedish National Space Agency and the UK Space Agency to provide additional national contributions to the ESA–State Space Agency of Ukraine project fund.
UK Space Agency is scheduled to be absorbed into the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology on April 1.
Astroscale’s ELSA-M mission is supported by the UK Space Agency through the European Space Agency’s Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems program as part of the Sunrise Partnership Project.
Orbit Fab has contracts with the U.S. Space Force, AFRL, DIU, the U.K. Space Agency, the European Space Agency, and Astroscale.
The UK Space Agency supports Astroscale’s ELSA-M mission through the European Space Agency’s Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems program.