Britain is set to power its Antarctic Rothera Research Station with solar energy beamed from space. Large satellites will capture sunlight, convert it into high-frequency radio waves, and send it to a ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will set up a new space agency next month to exploit an industry that appears to have defied the recession and shows huge potential for growth, the government said on ...

Aspirations of UK space launch will soon collide with the new geopolitical realities of global security, writes Susan Walton When I relocated to the UK from New York in 1984, the Cold War was at its ...

Left to right: UKSA CEO Paul Bate, ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher, ECSAT head Laurent Jaffart, UKSA non-executive board member and former CEO David Parker in 2024. Credit: UK Space Agency / Max ...

A British-built manufacturing satellite successfully launched into orbit on its first test mission. Cardiff-based startup Space Forge launched the probe — called ForgeStar-1 — aboard SpaceX’s ...