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The Launch UK conference allows UK space ports and spaceflight vehicle operators to meet, hoping to achieve the launch of satellites from the UK by 2020.

Space Launch UK

Air February 22, 2017

The Launch UK conference has been held at the Royal Aeronautical Society, with speeches from Universities and Science Minister Jo Johnson, Minister for Aviation Lord Ahmad, and UK Space Agency CEO Katherine Courtney. The conference was designed to bring together government and the UK commercial space sector, with potential UK spaceports ...


The UK Government has launched a £10M scheme to incentivise commercial space flight. Science Minister Jo Johnson announced the grants today, which will enable the UK to establish a commercial spaceflight market. It is anticipated that the global space market will be worth estimated £25Bn over the next 20 years Companies receiving ...


A new investment facility in Northern Ireland’s space industry has been opened by UK astronaut Major Tim Peake. Major Peake officially opened Thales’s space propulsion facilities in Belfast as part of a UK wide programme organised by the UK Space Agency and ESA designed to promote space manufacturing and STEM subjects. The ...


Monday 26th September saw AlSat Nano – a joint CubeSat mission between the UK Space Agency and Algerian Space Agency, successfully launched from India.

AlSat Nano launch

Air October 3, 2016

Monday 26th September saw AlSat Nano – a joint CubeSat mission between the UK Space Agency and Algerian Space Agency, successfully launched from India. Contact with the satellite was established shortly after launch and orbital injection from the Surrey Space Centre (University of Surrey) ground station in Guildford. A number of ...


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