The Cassini probe has today begun the first of 22 dives in between the rings of Saturn and the planet's atmosphere.
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Wednesday, 26 April 2017
Friday, 21 April 2017
The CEOI has reached its 10th anniversary, during which time it has funded more than 50 new technologies.
Monday, 20 March 2017
Nine young space entrepreneurs have won a share of £50K for innovative ideas on how to use satellite data to improve life on Earth.
Friday, 10 March 2017
The UK Space Agency has awarded just under £150,000 to three business incubation centres across the UK.
Wednesday, 01 March 2017
The UK Space Agency has announced the appointment of a new Chief Executive, Graham Turnock.
Tuesday, 21 February 2017
The UK Space Agency and partners brought together government and industry to enable satellite launches from the UK by 2020.
Tuesday, 07 February 2017
A leading UK technology company has reached the landmark stage of delivering the first key imaging components of Euclid, a pioneering ESA mission to observe billions of faint galaxies and investigate the nature of dark matter and dark energy.
Tuesday, 31 January 2017
Young people have the chance to win £10,000 in a competition to come up with ideas on how to use satellite data to improve life on Earth.
Thursday, 26 January 2017
UK space businesses have won £70 million of funding for projects that will deliver practical help to developing countries.
Thursday, 22 December 2016
A UK company is at the forefront of NASA’s latest Earth observation mission to see inside tropical storms and hurricanes like never before.
Thursday, 08 December 2016
The Agency’s latest survey of the UK space industry, carried out every two years, shows that the sector has continued to grow strongly.
Wednesday, 26 October 2016
UK achieves outstanding success in European space innovation competitions, winning the top prize and four major awards.
Wednesday, 26 October 2016
British ESA astronaut Tim Peake has completed a highly successful tour of the UK since his return from space earlier this year.
Friday, 14 October 2016
£150,000 has been awarded to eight partners for exciting new education and outreach activities projects.
Friday, 30 September 2016
ESA's historic mission concluded as planned, with a controlled impact onto the comet it had investigated for over two years.
Wednesday, 28 September 2016
AlSat Nano, a joint CubeSat mission between the UK Space Agency and Algerian Space Agency, has successfully launched from India.
Tuesday, 13 September 2016
UK Space Agency announces £2m funding to help develop Earth observation satellite technologies and opens an online portal for satellite data
Tuesday, 13 September 2016
UK Space Agency announces £2m funding to help develop Earth observation satellite technologies and opens an online portal for satellite data
Tuesday, 06 September 2016
A joint CubeSat mission between the UK Space Agency and Algerian Space Agency (ASAL) has shipped to India for launch in late September.
Monday, 05 September 2016
Rosetta's comet lander, Philae, has finally been found less than a month before the mission ends.
Friday, 02 September 2016
SSGP is a UK Space Agency led and funded programme delivered in collaboration with the Satellite Applications Catapult.
Wednesday, 31 August 2016
A joint cubesat mission between the UK Space Agency and Algerian Space Agency has shipped to India, ready for launch in September.
Tuesday, 26 July 2016
We are investing £1.15 million to fund preparatory research about sub-orbital spaceflight and small satellite launches from the UK.
Tuesday, 12 July 2016
The UK Space Agency is investing £4.12m in a National Propulsion Test Facility, giving the UK a new facility for space technology testing.
Tuesday, 21 June 2016
British ESA astronaut Tim Peake has returned to Earth after spending six months living and working on the International Space Station.
Tuesday, 07 June 2016
ESA’s LISA Pathfinder mission has successfully demonstrated the technology needed to build a space-based gravitational wave observatory.
Monday, 16 May 2016
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has delivered the 22nd Galileo navigation payload to prime contractor OHB System in Bremen, Germany.
Monday, 09 May 2016
Visualisation tool that allows comparison of reliable climate data from variable sources due to be showcased at the Living Planet Symposium.
Wednesday, 04 May 2016
UK Space Agency and National Centre for Earth Observation announce climate data project.
Friday, 29 April 2016
Part of an international experiment preparing for human-robotic missions to Mars and beyond took place at Airbus Defence and Space today.
Friday, 18 March 2016
We are expanding support for business incubation centres across the UK.
Monday, 14 March 2016
The mission will see a UK-designed rover launched to the surface of the red planet in 2018.
Friday, 11 March 2016
LISA Pathfinder (LISA) has started its mission to test the technology needed to develop future space-borne gravitational wave detectors.
Thursday, 25 February 2016
Gravitational wave mission achieves next milestone.
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
The UK Space Agency and UAE Space Agency today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to create a strategic space partnership.
Thursday, 18 February 2016
Silent since its last call to mothership Rosetta seven months ago, the Philae lander is facing conditions on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko from which it is unlikely to recover.
Tuesday, 16 February 2016
The UK’s routine access to important environmental data is set to take a major step forward following launch of EU satellite Sentinel-3A.
Thursday, 11 February 2016
Gravitational waves, predicted by Albert Einstein almost a century ago, have been detected for the first time.
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Thales Alenia Space-UK (TAS-UK) has been selected to supply a crucial subsystem for the ExoMars 2018 mission.
Wednesday, 13 January 2016
Roadmap developed to identify and realise unique potential of Earth Observation data for Defra and the UK economy over the next five years
Tuesday, 15 December 2015
Tim Peake has successfully launched into space, becoming the first Brit to undertake a long duration mission on the ISS.
Sunday, 13 December 2015
The UK is publishing it's first National Space Policy as Britain's first ESA astronaut launches to the International Space Station (ISS).
Friday, 04 December 2015
European spacecraft successfully lifts off on its way to demonstrate technology for observing gravitational waves from space.
Tuesday, 01 December 2015
Europe’s technology demonstrator for detecting gravitational-waves, is set for launch tomorrow (2 December at 04:15 GMT).
Friday, 06 November 2015
It is Tim Peake's last visit to the UK before his 15 December launch to the ISS and we are holding launch-day celebrations across the nation
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