Earlier this month, some of the Space South Central team headed north to join space clusters, companies and academics from around the UK for two national space sector events in Leeds. Our Business Development Manager, Dan Smith, tells us more.

Election candidate, Stephen Morgan, got a personal introduction to some of our region’s world-class space facilities, expertise and research last week during a visit to the University of Portsmouth.

Projects involving five Space South Central organisations are to receive £2,125,000 in funding from the UK Space Agency’s early-stage technology programme to boost the UK’s Earth observation (EO) technologies and improve how space is used to understand and protect the planet.

Two projects from the Space South Central region are among nine from across the UK to get a share of £1.8 million in funding from the UK Space Agency’s Enabling Technologies Programme (ETP), to boost research and development into new and emerging space technologies.

It’s been one year since we officially became Space South Central, the UK’s largest space cluster – and what a busy year it’s been!

International space projects from three Space South Central organisations are getting a £3.5 million funding boost from the UK Space Agency’s International Bilateral Fund (IBF).

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) will get £250,000 towards cutting edge facilities at its Guildford base after winning a project from the UK Space Agency’s Space Clusters Infrastructure Fund (SCIF).

Hampshire, Surrey and the Isle of Wight’s thriving space sector is perfectly placed to capitalise on the government’s new Space Industrial Plan, released last week.

Space South Central and the SETsquared Partnership have won UK Space Agency funding to run a free initiative to help high-potential space and space-related SMEs attract investment.

November saw thousands of people descend on Belfast for the 2023 UK Space Conference.  Our Director, Dr Louise Butt, looks back on the event.

Organisers of Women In Space have promised future events following rave reviews from attendees of its first Networking Reception, held in London last week.

The UK Space Agency has launched a new programme to help businesses understand and exploit the benefits of satellite data and services – and additional support is available to companies in Hampshire, Surrey and the Isle of Wight from Space South Central.

A team of international delegates from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) and the University of Arizona made their way across the UK last week before landing in Space South Central.

There’s less than a month to go until Venturefest South brings together the region’s brightest minds and big thinkers for its #VFS23: Festival of Innovation - and Space South Central will be there.

International space projects from across the Space South Central region have won funding from the UK Space Agency (UKSA) in the first phase of its £20 million International Bilateral Fund (IBF), aimed at boosting research and investment in new technologies through worldwide collaborations.

For International Moon Day, Space South Central interviewed members of the Lunar Pathfinder project from SSTL.

Satellite imagery released by Surrey-based geospatial analytics company, Alcis, shows a 99% reduction in poppy cultivation in Helmand Province, which previously produced more than 50% of Afghanistan’s opium.

Space4Nature, a groundbreaking initiative to map, classify, restore and connect habitats across Surrey, has become one of only two UK climate projects awarded international Space Climate Observatory (SCO) accreditation.

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