Spaceflight Safety and Regulatory Council

The Spaceflight Safety and Regulatory Council (SSRC) is a partnership between industry and government bringing together ministers and senior-level stakeholders to ensure the UK’s commercial spaceflight regulations effectively support the growing UK spaceflight market and contribute to the UK's ambition to become a global leader in space.

The Spaceflight Safety and Regulatory Council (SSRC) will be the catalyst for maintaining dialogue and engagement between the government and the sector as they begin to deliver UK-based space operations under the Space Industry Act 2018 and the commercial spaceflight regulations. To achieve this, it will keep review of the:

  • Space Industry Act 2018
  • Space Industry Regulations 2021
  • Spaceflight Activities (Investigations of Spaceflight Accidents) Regulations 2021
  • Space Industry (Appeals) Regulations 2021

The objectives of the SSRC are to:

  • provide ministerial and senior industry leadership on efforts to address delivery issues in the UK space sector that are directly impacted by the Space Industry Act 2018 or the commercial spaceflight regulations

  • provide advice, and recommendations on how these issues can be addressed

  • offer a transparent engagement forum for government and the space industry sector to discuss the new commercial spaceflight regulations – including the development, consideration and communication of information

Chair

Anthony Browne MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Co-Chair

Joanne Wheeler, Alden Legal

Members

Members are:

  • Anthony Browne MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
  • Jenny Ward (Deputy Chair), Department for Transport
  • Natalie Moore, Ministry of Defence
  • Rebecca Evernden, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
  • Luis Gomes, AAC Clyde Space
  • Bhavin Vyas, ADS Group
  • Phil Wadey, Airbus
  • Joanne Wheeler, Alden Legal
  • Paul Williams, Black Arrow
  • Simon Potter, Brycetech
  • Stephen Vance, CGI
  • Sean Hardacre, Deimos Space UK Ltd
  • Akiko Hama, Global Aerospace
  • Ruari Brooker, Hyimpulse
  • Mark Dickinson, Inmarsat
  • Dr Peter Shaw, Kingston University
  • Nik Smith, Lockheed Martin UK
  • Gareth Alston, OneWeb
  • John May, Orbex
  • Charlie Young, Plastron
  • Mick O’Connor, Prestwick Spaceport
  • Steve Powell, Qinetiq
  • Charles Simpson, Raven Dynamics
  • Scott Hammond, SaxaVord Spaceport
  • Volodymyr Levykin, Skyrora
  • Ross Hulbert, Spaceport Cornwall
  • Mark Roberts, Spaceport One
  • Phil Brownnett, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd.
  • Andy Bradford, UKLSL

SSRC meeting minutes

3 July 2023 meeting minutes (PDF, 225 KB, 9 pages)

23 November 2022 meeting minutes (PDF, 186 KB, 6 pages)

31 March 2022 meeting minutes (PDF, 204 KB, 5 pages)

25 November 2021 meeting minutes (PDF, 90.5 KB, 4 pages)

Terms of reference

Spaceflight Safety and Regulatory Council: terms of reference (PDF, 88.7 KB, 5 pages)

Press releases and government publications

UK embarks on new era of spaceflight with launch of ground-breaking regulatory council