Dan Smith has joined the Space South Central team as Business Development Manager.

Space South Central has become a member of UKspace, the industry’s official trade body.

For Earth Day 2023 we interviewed Phil Wu from Absolar Solutions regarding how space can help climate change, what they are doing to contribute and their role within the Space South Central region.

On 1 April 2023, the South Coast Centre of Excellence in Satellite Applications (SCCoE) officially transitioned into Space South Central’s Enterprise Network, supporting the UK’s largest space cluster.

Take a look back on all the women featured in our International Women’s Day 2023 campaign, featuring figures from University of Surrey, University of Southampton, the University of Portsmouth, Space South Central, and the European Space Agency.

On the 150th anniversary of the World Meteorological Organization, we interview Euan Harvey from GlobalTrust about World Meteorological Day (WMD). This year's theme is The Future of Weather, Climate, and Water Across Generations. We asked Euan about GlobalTrust's usage of satellite data to help the future of our climate and the technologies they are implementing to help in the future.

Ignite Space 2023 took place this March at Bristol Aerospace. The event, hosted by BBC presenter Dallas Campbell, brought together many different parts of the UK space community, all under the wings of the iconic Concorde.

University of Southampton PhD graduate Mekhi Dhesi is supporting the mission to tackle the space debris challenge in her new role at Astroscale.

The south-central region’s thriving space industry has been awarded £1.2 million by the UK Space Agency in a drive to boost further innovation and growth.

Portsmouth and Canadian city, Halifax, Nova Scotia, are now ‘sister cities’, following an agreement signed on Thursday 19 January, which aims to explore new business potential across a range of sectors including satellite applications.

Orbit South Coast, our monthly networking event for the region’s space industry, is back with a new name, Orbit South Central, and new ‘roadshow’ format as we transition into the UK’s biggest space cluster, Space South Central.

An invention by University of Southampton researchers that will enable satellites to deorbit safely has launched into space for the first time.

Women's Entrepreneurship Day is on the 19th of November. Founded in 2013 the movement was established to bring awareness to the 250 million girls living in poverty globally that deserve to be given a chance in life, while simultaneously inspiring and empowering the 4 billion women on the planet. Space South Central spoke Wenmiao Yu, Co-Founder & Director of Business Development, Quantum Dice about the challenges she faced in the sector, what drew her to space and who inspired her.

The University of Portsmouth has been successful in its bid to host a European Space Agency (ESA) UK ambassador.

Robert Hauge spoke at Space Comm President from SpaceLogistics, a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman and thinks they have found a solution to the ever-growing space debris with satellite life extension.

Following the successful completion of the CLEAR mission feasibility study, the consortium, including the University of Surrey, has been awarded a £2.2M follow-up contract by the UK Space Agency to perform the preliminary mission design stage for a new project.

Space South Central held the first meeting of its Advisory Board on 26th September, hosted at the Surrey Research Park. Board members represent a terrific cross section of organisations from across the whole South Central region, all committed to contributing their time an effort to help translate Space South Central’s objectives into actions relevant to the region, promote strategic regional coherence, set priorities and provide direction to ensure objectives are delivered.

Local company space company SSTL announced that it had signed a contract with EECL, an engineering consultancy providing design, manufacturing and test services to the satellite and aerospace sector.

BAE Systems and In-Space Missions unveil plans for a new satellite cluster, as part of the Azalea programme.

ADS and UKSpace release their new Space Sector Outlook guide.