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March 10, 2026

UK space tech startups target debris, wildfires and climate risk

From clearing space junk to detecting wildfires in seconds, UK startups are applying space technology to some of today’s most urgent challenges Six UK space tech startups have joined the…

February 4, 2026

Aurora Avionics: The Scottish Space Start-Up Accelerating Launch Timelines by Building the ‘Nervous Systems’ of Rockets

Aurora Avionics are a Scottish space start-up, developing next-generation, modular avionics for launch providers. Avionics are electronic systems that act as the 'nervous system’ of a rocket, enabling navigation, communication,…

Frontier team discussing the objectives and outcomes of ATMOS mission internal experiments.
October 9, 2025

Frontier Space achieves major orbital milestone with first in-orbit biotech mission

Frontier Space, an incubatee of the European Space Agency Business Incubation Centre United Kingdom (ESA BIC UK) at Space Park Leicester, has successfully completed its first orbital mission, marking a…

July 21, 2025

ESA BIC UK Alumni Expands Global IoT Network with New Satellite Launches

Lacuna Space, alumni of ESA BIC UK, has successfully launched a new set of satellites as part of its Call of the Wild mission, a major milestone in scaling its…

March 28, 2025

Omanos Analytics: Unveiling Community Impacts of Conflict & Climate

Omanos Analytics are a Glasgow-based space technology start-up delivering space data knowledge to support sustainable development, with a mission to use space data to improve transparency and reduce risk around…

March 4, 2025

Celebrating 20 Years of the ESA BIC 

From 13 to 14 February, the European Space Agency - ESA celebrated 20 years of fostering space innovation through its ESA Business Incubation Centres (BICs) network. The event in Munich,…

February 5, 2025

12 Space Start-ups Join the ESA BIC UK 

We are excited to welcome 12 new space start-ups to the ESA Business Incubation Centre United Kingdom.  Since the launch of the ESA BIC UK in 2011, we have supported…

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January 29, 2025

Two ESA BIC UK Alumni Celebrate Launch Success  

Two innovative ESA BIC UK alumni companies, Space DOTS and SmartIR, have achieved remarkable milestones with their successful launches aboard SpaceX's Transporter-12 mission. The mission, which lifted off from Vandenberg…

Dominican_republic_detection.png: An image showing Plastic-i’s debris detection AI computer vision model applied to a scene near the Dominican Republic, with a large debris accumulation (~50km long) shown in the right of the image. The image was captured in 2022.
October 17, 2024

Ending Marine Plastic Pollution with Satellites & AI – ESA BIC UK Alumni Plastic-i Launch AI Platform

ESA BIC UK Alumi and 2024 Earthshot Prize nominee, Plastic-i, celebrate their latest milestone with the launch of their Plastic-i Observatory – the world’s first AI-powered platform for mapping marine…

October 16, 2024

Success for Spaceflux who win Dstl Contract and launch Spaceflux Labs

Spaceflux has recently been awarded the "Infra-Red Sensor Technology Demonstrator System for Space Domain Awareness" contract by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), a UK Ministry of Defence’s (MOD)…

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