Space South Central, the UK’s largest regional Space Cluster, is delighted to announce the addition of two prestigious members to its Advisory Board: The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and CGI, one of the largest IT and business consulting companies in the world. Both organisations have an extensive track record and significant presence in the global Space sector.

Korean company Hanwha Aerospace has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with one of Space South Central’s academic partners, the University of Surrey, amid plans to grow its collaborative relationships in the UK.

Farnborough International Exhibition and Conference Centre will host the 40th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment (ISRSE-40) next year - the first time the event will be held in the UK.

If your business has its sights set on targeting overseas markets, you won’t want to miss International Trade Week, running from Monday 6 November to Friday 10 November.

A team of international delegates from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) and the University of Arizona made their way across the UK last week before landing in Space South Central.

Introducing our new International Partnerships Manager, Toby Marchant. Although based at the University of Surrey, one of the cluster’s founding partners, Toby’s role will take him all over the region and beyond - he already has his first international visit lined up to support the Space South Central collaboration with Singapore, which recently won UK Space Agency funding.

The UK’s largest regional space cluster, Space South Central, has won funding from the UK Space Agency’s International Bilateral Fund (IBF) to develop a new Earth observation mission to help Singapore manage climate change.

Portsmouth and Canadian city, Halifax, Nova Scotia, are now ‘sister cities’, following an agreement signed on Thursday 19 January, which aims to explore new business potential across a range of sectors including satellite applications.