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Space science is the foundation of the UK’s activities in space. UK instruments have travelled to comets, moons and planets.
The UK is aiming to join Portugal and Spain as a member of the Atlantic Constellation and is contributing a new pathfinder satellite designed and built by a UK-based company adding to the innovative Earth and coastal monitoring and data...
This treaty was presented to Parliament in March 2023.
A European mission to explore how gravity, dark energy and dark matter has shaped the Universe has launched following £37 million UK Space Agency funding.
This document contains the following information: Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) annual report and accounts 2006-2007
This document contains the following information: Treaty Series No. 11 (2003)
This treaty was presented to Parliament in February 1968.
UK Space Command and the UK Space Agency have announced the award of a contract to Spaceflux to build a new ground-based space camera-telescope system in Cyprus.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Astronomers have taken a meteoric leap closer to discovering how our Solar System began, unveiling the most detailed atlas of the Milky Way in history
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) coordinates research on some of the most significant challenges facing society, such as future energy needs, monitoring and understanding climate change, and global security. It offers grants and support in particle physics, astronomy...
PLATO is an ESA medium class science mission to detect rocky Earth-like planets orbiting bright nearby Sun-like stars in the ‘habitable zone’, where liquid water could exist on the planet surface.
The UK Government will invest £30 million to secure the UK’s leading role in developing a space telescope to explore exoplanets.
The mission to map the Universe.
Five new projects have been awarded a share of over £1 million of government funding to work with international partners on innovative space technology
Data captured during the Phantom Echoes 2 project, headed by an international group of defence space scientists, will help improve performance and space safety.
The UK-led Ariel mission will study the atmospheres of approximately 1000 planets lying outside our Solar System.
Orbiting satellites will be tracked in international experiment by scientists from the UK’s Dstl and amateur astronomers from Australia and the UK
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