UKSA Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com Covering the business and politics of space Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:38:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cropped-SN_forza_star-32x32.png UKSA Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com 32 32 80681979 SatixFy gets UK funds to accelerate in-orbit satellite reconfiguration https://spacenews.com/satixfy-gets-uk-funds-to-accelerate-in-orbit-satellite-reconfiguration/ https://spacenews.com/satixfy-gets-uk-funds-to-accelerate-in-orbit-satellite-reconfiguration/#respond Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:33:06 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=513921

The UK Space Agency has awarded SatixFy funds to develop software to speed up how quickly reprogrammable satellites can adapt to changing needs in orbit, the Israeli chipmaker announced March 5.

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]]> https://spacenews.com/satixfy-gets-uk-funds-to-accelerate-in-orbit-satellite-reconfiguration/feed/ 0 513921 Astroscale and ClearSpace reach development milestone for dual-satellite deorbit mission https://spacenews.com/astroscale-and-clearspace-reach-development-milestone-for-dual-satellite-deorbit-mission/ https://spacenews.com/astroscale-and-clearspace-reach-development-milestone-for-dual-satellite-deorbit-mission/#respond Tue, 11 Feb 2025 18:48:27 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=512901

Astroscale and ClearSpace have passed the halfway mark in de-risking key technologies for potentially de-orbiting two satellites in a single mission in 2028 for the UK Space Agency.

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]]> https://spacenews.com/astroscale-and-clearspace-reach-development-milestone-for-dual-satellite-deorbit-mission/feed/ 0 512901 ClearSpace secures a major UK contract to help clean up space https://spacenews.com/clearspace-secures-a-major-uk-contract-to-help-clean-up-space/ Mon, 26 Sep 2022 09:37:00 +0000 https://spaceref.com/?p=203341 ClearSpace

Following the successful completion of a feasibility study of the CLEAR mission to remove two UK-registered derelict objects from low Earth orbit, a consortium led by ClearSpace has been awarded […]

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]]> 203341 Landing Site Selected for UK ExoMars Rover https://spacenews.com/landing-site-selected-for-uk-exomars-rover/ Mon, 12 Nov 2018 09:15:22 +0000 http://localhost:8888/spaceref/?p=18252

A group of scientists and engineers in Leicester has recommended Oxia Planum as the best landing site for the British-built Mars rover. Image of the proposed landing site (from ESA) […]

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]]> 460859 UK and Kazakhstan Agree Collaboration in Space https://spacenews.com/uk-and-kazakhstan-agree-collaboration-in-space-2/ Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:07:25 +0000 http://localhost:8888/spaceref/?p=1645

The UK Space Agency and the National Space Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan (KAZCOSMOS) have today (7 March 2013) signed an agreement outlining cooperation in the area of space […]

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