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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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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)…