Guidance

About the UK Space Agency Space Exploration Programme

Published 18 January 2023

The UK is a member of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Exploration programme ‘Terra Novae’ (aka European Exploration Envelope Programme (E3P)).  This programme encompasses the missions, the development of technology, and provision of science facilities, to prepare for and enable humans to live and work in Low Earth Orbit, in and around the Moon, and, one day, Mars.