Orbex, the Scotland-based rocket start-up funded last year by the UK government, is in talks to sell its business to European space group The Exploration Company. The two companies said on Wednesday ...
LONDON, July 16, 2025 /CNW/ - MDA Space Ltd. (TSX: MDA), a trusted mission partner to the rapidly expanding global space industry, today announced that it will prime SkyPhi, a new mission funded by ...
Airbus’ Defence and Space division has secured the Oberon satellite system contract from the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), which will improve the armed forces' access to advanced space-based imagery.
BRAMPTON, ON and LONDON, Sept. 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ - MDA Space Ltd. (TSX: MDA), a trusted mission partner to the rapidly expanding global space industry, today announced the appointment of Andrew ...
The UK space sector is enjoying impressive progress and is said to be expanding faster than the UK economy. A report from Heligan Group forecasts that M&A activity will continue to grow in 2025 due to ...
TL;DR: UK startup Space Forge launched ForgeStar-1, the nation's first in-space manufacturing satellite, via SpaceX to produce semiconductors using space's unique conditions. Designed in Cardiff, this ...
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10 things the UK is doing in space

While most people look at the big players like NASA or SpaceX, the UK has been carving out its own […] ...
Remote-controlled robots could one day build giant solar farms in space, according to a recent trial in the UK. The company used two remotely operated robotic arms to assemble a section of the support ...
The UK space sector has secured £80 million more in European Space Agency contracts than government contributions, the highest return for any member state. This success is projected to add over £1 ...
As the space sector continues to reach higher levels, and weeks after it gained significant funding to use data to help transform the delivery of public services around the country, the UK Space ...
The UK is looking to foster the development of a homegrown satellite ground segment market as part of a wider—though modestly funded—ambition to capture a larger slice of the space economy. The UK ...