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About the UK Space Agency

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The UK Space Agency is responsible for all strategic decisions on the UK civil space programme and provides a clear, single voice for UK space ambitions.

At the heart of UK efforts to explore and benefit from space, we are responsible for ensuring that the UK retains and grows a strategic capability in space-based systems, technologies, science and applications. We lead the UK’s civil space programme in order to win sustainable economic growth, secure new scientific knowledge and provide benefit to all citizens.

We work to:

  • co-ordinate UK civil space activity
  • encourage academic research
  • support the UK space industry
  • raise the profile of UK space activities at home and abroad
  • increase understanding of space science and its practical benefits
  • inspire our next generation of UK scientists and engineers
  • licence the launch and operation of UK spacecraft
  • promote co-operation and participation in the European Space programme

We’re an executive agency of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, made up of about 70 staff based in Swindon, London and the UK Space Gateway in Oxfordshire.

We are responsible for:

  • leading the UK civil space policy and increasing the UK contribution to European initiatives
  • building a strong national space capability, including scientific and industrial centres of excellence
  • co-ordinating strategic investment across industry and academia
  • working to inspire and train a growing, skilled UK workforce of space technologists and scientists
  • working on national and international space projects in co-operation with industry and academia
  • regulating the UK civil space activities and ensuring we meet international treaty obligations

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