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Matthew Archer, director of launch at the UK Space Agency, noted that Covid-related delays caused a loss of 18 months to two years in production schedules.
ClearSpace has been awarded a new contract by the UK Space Agency to further develop the CLEAR mission.
Space Forge has been awarded almost £8 million from the Space Clusters Infrastructure Fund administered by the UK Space Agency.
The UK Space Agency will open new headquarters in the Quad Two building at the Harwell Science Campus’ Space Cluster in Oxfordshire.
The UK Space Agency plans to open new headquarters in June at the Harwell Science Campus space cluster in England.
Spaceflux won contracts with UK Space Command and the UK Space Agency to provide tracking data about satellites in geostationary orbit and to build a national ground-based SDA sensor in Cyprus.
The UK Space Agency is providing £3.5 million to help Germany’s Rocket Factory Augsburg prepare for its maiden flight next year from SaxaVord Spaceport in the Shetland Islands.
The UK Space Agency intends to invest a total of £17 million in the LiteBIRD mission over the life of the mission.
Odin Space has raised $500,000 in pre-seed funding and secured two grants from the UK Space Agency.
Astroscale won a contract from the U.K. Space Agency to study the removal of two defunct satellites from low Earth orbit by 2025.
Two other groups won UK Space Agency funding in October to complete mission feasibility studies by the end of March.
Astroscale won a contract from the U.K. Space Agency in October 2024 to study deorbiting two defunct British satellites, including a possible OneWeb satellite that failed in 2023.
Astroscale won a contract from the U.K. Space Agency on 2021-10-26 to study the removal of two defunct satellites from low Earth orbit by 2025.
U.K. Space Agency and Cornwall Council plan to invest in facilities at Cornwall Airport Newquay (Spaceport Cornwall) to support Virgin Orbit launch operations.
The plasma analyzer instrument funded by the U.K. Space Agency will be flown on a space weather mission being developed by ESA in coordination with a separate spacecraft that NOAA will develop.
U.K. Space Agency and Cornwall Council plan to invest in facilities at Cornwall Airport Newquay (Spaceport Cornwall) to support Virgin Orbit launch operations.