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About our services

The National Space Operations Centre develops and operates the UK’s space surveillance and protection capabilities.


NSpOC provides warning and protection services primarily to UK-licensed satellite operators and government departments.

Our mission sets include:

  • protecting and defending the UK’s space interests
  • missile warning
  • uncontrolled re-entry early warning
  • in-space collision avoidance
  • fragmentation alerting and monitoring
  • support to licence monitoring
  • space weather notifications and advice

Publicly available space weather notifications are provided by the Met Office.

Monitor Your Satellites is available to registered users (UK-licensed satellite operators)