World Region – UK

The UK Space Agency is providing new funding for projects using satellite data to improve the delivery of public services. The agency is making £2.5 million available to five projects. This was announced at the European Space Agency’s Living Planet Symposium 2025, in Vienna. It follows a joint call for proposals from the UK Space Agency and ESA’s InCubed2 programme. ...

Leading figures in the Space industry will appear before a cross-party Lords Committee on Monday June 23 to discuss the Space economy, and issues around domestic launch capability and implications for national security. The latest evidence session of the Lords UK Engagement with Space Committee will take place from 3.35pm in Committee Room 2, Palace of Westminster, and can be ...

The UK’s major space event, the UK Space Conference 2025, is heading to Manchester Central in July. Running from Wednesday 16 to Thursday 17 July, the event is aimed at government bodies, industry, and academia. With the theme of Space for Growth, the conference will cover questions such as how space can drive long-term economic growth for the UK. And ...

UK AI talent is the “envy of the world” said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in a conversation with Sir Keir Starmer at London Tech Week yesterday. However the UK is in a “Goldilocks circumstance”, said Huang with largest store of AI brainpower on the planet at our universities, companies and research institutions and the third largest VC investment in AI ...

CyberWhiz, a team of experts in embedded, mobile, and cloud cybersecurity has set up a UK office in Cheltenham, UK. The company offers a range of proven hardware and software security products and services based on decades of in-house experience at Beko, a leading domestic appliances manufacturer and part of Arçelik A.Ş., based in Turkey. CyberWhiz customers can choose to ...

The University of Surrey’s Space Enterprise Lab (SEL) becomes the newest part of the Satellite Applications Catapult’s UK wide network. It is part of the Surrey Technology Centre (STC) in Guildford. This is located  in the Surrey Research Park, on the University of Surrey campus. The lab provides a range of equipment for those looking to benefit from space data ...

With global defence spending only set to increase in coming years, Leonardo is highlighting increased employment around its nine UK sites. The defence company hired an additional 1,400 people to work at its UK locations in 2024. This was including 450 on early careers schemes such as its Apprenticeship programme. Young talent It came out of the company’s preliminary full-year ...

The UK’s In-Orbit Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing (ISAM) Conference for 2025 will take place in Belfast. Following the success of the inaugural conference in 2024, next year’s iteration will be at the ICC Belfast conference venue, in the centre of the city (BT1 3WH). The space event will run 4-6 June 2025. It aims to bring together international experts, industry ...

Four UK technology companies – including a space situational awareness specialist – have been selected to receive support from the UK-APAC Tech Growth Programme, to help accelerate plans for expansion in Japan. Aimed at UK technology startups headquartered in the UK, the programme is a government-backed initiative run by Intralink, a business development consultancy. The latest four companies to be ...

iSH, the Industrial Solutions Hub, is hosting a Space Week series of events across West Cumbria from 26-30 June. The organisation says businesses, schools and individuals are invited to a range of space-related events throughout the last week of the month to see how they could be inspired by the UK’s space sector. The first two days of the event ...