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Space & Satellite Technologies
Checked updates, public activity and useful routes for the Space & Satellite Technologies campus.
Space campus
Campus activity
Build on Britain's small satellite position to hold more of the space value chain.
Places
Where this capability is concentrated across Britain, with the evidence behind each place.
Organisations
Companies, universities, research institutes and public bodies recorded against this campus.
Facilities
Laboratories, test beds and specialist equipment you can access, wherever they are located.
Current jobs and funding
Nothing is open for this campus right now.
Upcoming events
Global MilSatCom 2026 convenes the military satellite communications community
Upcoming · SAE Media Group · Publication date not recorded
Useful activity
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The answer
Build on Britain's small satellite position to hold more of the space value chain.
- Space data underpins climate, agriculture, defence, insurance and mobility.
- Britain has genuine manufacturing leadership in small satellites.
- Downstream applications are where the recurring revenue sits.
Why BritainGlasgow builds more small satellites than any other European city.The Harwell space cluster and the European Space Agency presence.Spaceport infrastructure in Cornwall and Scotland.
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The Space & Satellite Technologies campus
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Illustrative UKIZ campus. Not a proposed site.What Britain already has
Research base
- University of Glasgow
- University of Surrey
- University of Leicester
- Open University
Infrastructure recorded
- Assembly, integration and test facilities
- Ground station networks
- Launch capability
- Data processing and compute
What Britain is genuinely good at
- Harwell Space Cluster
- Glasgow small satellite manufacturing
- Satellite Applications Catapult
- North East space and telecommunications activity
What we’re less certain about
- Anchor customers and long procurement cycles
- Capital intensity of launch and infrastructure
- Skills competition with defence and aerospace
These are open questions UKIZ holds against this campus, not weaknesses we have proven.
Where the capability is
What UKIZ holds for this campus
My UKIZ
The digital campus
Space & Satellite Technologies in Britain, as it stands today.
Britain builds more small satellites than most of Europe and captures comparatively little downstream data value. Launch sites and operators are licensed, but no orbital launch has yet been achieved from UK soil. The mission covers manufacture, launch, data and applications together.
Every line below is a record with a date. Where UKIZ holds nothing, it says so rather than filling the space.
Sources and freshness
Every line above carries where it came from.
Records come from published sources: filings, university and Catapult pages, government announcements and organisation-supplied information, each marked as such. Inferred facts are labelled inferred.