A photograph of the Space Launch System rocket launching against a sea and sky backdrop rising on a cloud of steam and smoke. Two large lightning towers appear in the foreground. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

Huge congrats to NASA on the launch of Artemis II. 🚀🌔

Great to see the UK playing its part too, with Goonhilly providing tracking support from the Lizard, the Airbus teams in Stevenage who developed parts of the ESM and Slough-based John Crane providing specialized components for the prop systems.👏

#Artemis II - We have main engine cut off 🚀

They say variety’s the spice of life…

While we’re waiting to support Artemis II tracking later this week, our team are busy supporting missions studying the Sun and Mars for space agencies including @operations.esa.int, NASA, and ISRO!

UK Space Minister announces more than £500m to national space programmes. UK will also focus more sharply on four areas:

🛰📲 Satellite Communications
🛠️ In Orbit Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing
📡 Space Domain Awareness
🚀 Launch for assured access to space

www.gov.uk/government/n...

A photo of a 3m high light box at a conference showing a JWST NIRCam/MIRI image of the Pillars of Creation with pink, brown and white masses of swirling nebulosity against an orange and purple starry backdrop.

A photo of the U.K. Space Agency stand at Space-Comm Expo Europe showing crowds on the stand and a 3m high light box featuring a high-res Solar Orbiter image of the Sun.

A photo of a light box showing a Euclid mission image of a star forming region. Blue white, brown and yellow tendrils of gas swirl across a starry black background peppered by numerous distant galaxies.

Ready for day two of Space-Comm Expo Europe! Come and visit the @ukspaceagency.bsky.social stand to speak to our programme teams and see our lightboxes highlighting some of the great space missions that the UK is at the heart of.

We are pleased to announce that Rebecca Evernden has been appointed as Director of the new UK Space Agency, taking up the post 1st April.

@ukspaceagency.bsky.social @fasikcl.bsky.social @ukspace.bsky.social @spacecentre.bsky.social

Reflections from the Space Communicators’ Network Last year, the UK Space Agency’s External Affairs team hosted the Space Communicators’ Network Workshop at the UK Space Conference in Manchester, to move the conversation about space communications fr...

We brought together communications experts from across the space sector for a Workshop to move the conversation about space communications from identifying challenges to taking meaningful action.

Read our insights: space.blog.gov.uk/2026/02/25/r...
#ScienceCommunications #Space

Reflections from the Space Communicators’ Network Last year, the UK Space Agency’s External Affairs team hosted the Space Communicators’ Network Workshop at the UK Space Conference in Manchester, to move the conversation about space communications fr...

We brought together communications experts from across the space sector for a Workshop to move the conversation about space communications from identifying challenges to taking meaningful action.

Read our insights: space.blog.gov.uk/2026/02/25/r...
#ScienceCommunications #Space

We are pleased to announce that Rebecca Evernden has been appointed as Director of the new UK Space Agency, taking up the post 1st April.

@ukspaceagency.bsky.social @fasikcl.bsky.social @ukspace.bsky.social @spacecentre.bsky.social

Leicester experts investigate ways scientists can safely collect extra-terrestrial samples Leicester experts investigate ways to safely collect extra-terrestrial samples using advanced technology for planetary protection.

Leicester experts investigate ways scientists can safely collect extra-terrestrial samples 👽!

The Space Park Leicester team is working with the UK Space Agency to identify a pathway forward to exploit this unique British technology.

www.space-park.co.uk/2026/02/leic... #Space #Science

Come join us at Space-Comm Europe for a panel discussion on role of #Space tech & science in UK #SoftPower!

⏲️ 08:45 – 10:00
📅 4 March 2026
📍 Room 17, South Gallery, Excel London

Register to attend: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
@ukspace.bsky.social @bfpg.bsky.social @royalsociety.org

Come join us at Space-Comm Europe for a panel discussion on role of #Space tech & science in UK #SoftPower!

⏲️ 08:45 – 10:00
📅 4 March 2026
📍 Room 17, South Gallery, Excel London

Register to attend: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
@ukspace.bsky.social @bfpg.bsky.social @royalsociety.org

UK Space Agency launches Skills for Space, a new internship programme for 50 paid placements across the UK space sector to give young people hands-on experience and industry exposure.

www.gov.uk/government/n...
@fasikcl.bsky.social @ukspace.bsky.social @spacecentre.bsky.social @techuk.bsky.social

Chuong Van Dang, Chief of Staff at Magdrive, Paul Bate, CEO of the UK Space Agency, Mark Stokes, CEO and co-founder of Magdrive, Anotonia Yendell, Head of Space Ecosystem at the UK Space Agency. Credit: Stuart Harrison / Magdrive

A new laboratory helping UK companies test satellite engines has opened at Harwell Campus.🚀

The DEEP Lab, built by Magdrive with support from us, gives businesses access to specialist testing facilities for electric propulsion systems. 🛰️

Read more 👉 www.gov.uk/government/n...

UK Space Agency CEO, Dr Paul Bate.

After 4.5 years leading the UK Space Agency, our CEO, Dr Paul Bate is stepping down in March.

Under Paul's leadership, the Agency secured record ESA investment, welcomed 3 new UK astronauts & expanded national space funding.

We wish Paul all the best.

Read more 👉 gov.uk/government/n...

Airbus Launchpad opening with Kata Escott, Managing Director Airbus Defence and Space UK, Kevin Bonavia, MP for Stevenage, and Craig Brown, Director of Investment at the UK Space Agency. Credit: Airbus

New facility at Airbus Defence & Space to boost UK space SMEs opens with £3.9 million @ukspaceagency.bsky.social backing.

www.gov.uk/government/n...

Beyond the Blackout: Satellite Connectivity and the Erosion of… Iran’s internet shutdowns expose the erosion of informational sovereignty, as space-based connectivity increasingly eludes the Islamic Republic’s capacity to control visibility, repression, and…

Beyond the Blackout: Satellite Connectivity and the Erosion of Informational Sovereignty in Iran

An important reminder that satellites don't just project a state's economic/military power - but informational power as well.

www.kcl.ac.uk/beyond-the-b... @fasikcl.bsky.social

@awisnational.bsky.social @womeninstem.bsky.social @royalsociety.org @esa.int @royalastrosoc.bsky.social #STEM #WomenInSTEM @spacekate.bsky.social @issibern.ch

📢 Can we get the message out to future space scientists & engineers?

The @britishcouncil.bsky.social 2026-27 Women in STEM Scholarships are now open.

They are working with UK universities to provide up to 90 scholarships to women across 30 countries.

www.britishcouncil.org/study-work-a...

ColKa (Columbus Ka-band antenna). Credit: ESA–M. Cowan.

NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover installing the Columbus KA-band antenna (ColKa) outside ESA’s Columbus laboratory on the International Space Station. Credit: ESA/NASA

Five years of ColKa! 🎉

On this day in 2021, the UK's first industrial contribution to the International Space Station was installed. 🛰️

Built by MDA Space UK and funded by us, ColKa transmits data faster, revolutionising how scientists in the UK and Europe access experiment results. 📡

Unlocking Space for Agriculture The UK Space Agency is funding two four‑month pilot projects, using satellite data and digital tools to help farmers make more informed decisions, boost productivity and care for the environment.

🚜 🛰️ @ukspaceagency.bsky.social is supporting two innovative projects that will use satellite data and digital tools to help farmers make more informed decisions, boost productivity and care for the environment.

space.blog.gov.uk/2026/01/20/u...
@ukspace.bsky.social @nfudc.bsky.social

Public Attitudes to Science Survey shows the public values science, but highlights concerns over AI, quality of information, and representation Ipsos, the British Science Association, and UK Research and Innovation have published the results of the 2025 Public Attitudes to Science Survey - the first since the Covid-19 pandemic, and the first ...

Great @britsciassoc.bsky.social & @ukri.org report on public attitudes to science.

🔬 82% thought scientists made a valuable contribution to society
64% agreed that science made a direct contribution to economic growth.

www.britishscienceassociation.org/News/public-...
@ipsosintheuk.bsky.social

The £20m Westcott Space Hub opens to boost UK space innovation and create hundreds of jobs - supported by @ukspaceagency.bsky.social funding!

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@ukspace.bsky.social

🪐 The #ExoMars team at the University has welcomed the UK Space Agency’s renewed backing for the Rosalind Franklin rover mission, a flagship project that will see Europe’s first Mars rover launch in 2028.

🖱️ tinyurl.com/d3m5ysah

@esa.int
@ukspaceagency.bsky.social
@abercompsci.bsky.social

My first attempt at lunar photography!

✨ Congratulations to Prof. Brian Cox on his appointed as the UN Champion for Space!

Wonderful to see a UK academic taking on such an important leadership role in a global institution

#ScienceDiplomacy #SoftPower

Catch Comet Lemmon in autumn’s night sky Comet Lemmon is paying our inner Solar System a visit and may reach naked-eye visibility in the coming week.

We’re lucky at the moment to have a comet visiting the inner Solar System that’s bright enough to see with a pair of binoculars, and it may in the coming week or so just reach naked-eye visibility.

To find out more, see the @ukspaceagency.bsky.social blog: space.blog.gov.uk/2025/10/21/c...

Critical UK satellites to be defended from laser threats The UK is investing in sensors that will help protect satellites crucial to our economy and security from lasers from adversaries

🛰️ Critical UK satellites to be defended from laser threats

New sensors will be developed by @ukspaceagency.bsky.social & UK Space Command that will identify laser threats from adversaries to UK military and civilian satellites.

A "One Government" approach to space!

www.gov.uk/government/n...

UK Space Agency goes global with 23 new projects A new batch of 23 projects will strengthen international space partnerships, develop national capabilities and boost economic growth, the UK Space Agency announced today.

@ukspaceagency.bsky.social announces £6.5m funding for 23 projects supporting UK space collaboration with global partners.

🚀 UK is a key partner of choice in international collaboration in space and our leadership in space science & tech is a source of UK Soft Power!

www.gov.uk/government/n...

UK technology launches into space aboard NASA’s IMAP mission A British-built instrument has launched today as part of NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission, which will help scientists better understand the protective magnetic bubble ...

UK tech has launched on NASA IMAP! 🚀

The mission will help to protect satellites and ensure safer human space exploration.

@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social’s MAG instrument, funded by us, will provide crucial data to improve our understanding of space weather. ☀️

👉 www.gov.uk/government/n...