Students in the Space South Central region now have the unique opportunity to design and launch a satellite mission, thanks to an ambitious new programme from three of the space cluster’s partner universities.

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.

Today at Farnborough International Airshow, Space South Central announced that UCL has joined the cluster as an academic partner.

Experts designing a ‘swarm’ of satellites to tackle the growing problem of space debris have worked together on the mission concept in the University of Portsmouth’s space mission design facility.

International space projects from three Space South Central organisations are getting a £3.5 million funding boost from the UK Space Agency’s International Bilateral Fund (IBF).

The Space South Central team joined one of their academic partners, the University of Portsmouth, for its annual Portsmouth Stargazing event at the Historic Dockyard on Wednesday evening (31 January).

BAE Systems and Space South Central founding partners, the University of Portsmouth, have launched the UK’s first degree apprenticeship in Space Systems Engineering  – and applications for the programme’s first intake are open now.

A team from Space South Central partners, the University of Southampton, has built a fully functioning replica of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover, to demonstrate how space technology can be lifesaving on Earth.

Saturday 1 July saw the successful launch of ESA’s Euclid spacecraft on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, starting an ambitious six-year mission to explore the composition and evolution of the dark Universe. 

A unique new mission design service at the University of Portsmouth - one of Space South Central’s partner institutions - has won £100k funding from the UK Space Agency (UKSA) for its set-up phase.

Staff from one of Space South Central’s founding members, the University of Portsmouth, joined the UK Space Agency’s new Space for Everyone Tour, which launched in Southampton on Thursday 1 June.

University of Portsmouth post-graduate student, Csilla Patakfalvi, won a place on the European Space Agency’s (ESA) CubeSat Hands-On Training Week 2023, which runs from 5-9 June in Belgium.

Space South Central and its partners are looking forward to offering more careers events following the success of last week’s Post-Doctoral Industry Summit (PICS-Space) in Southampton.

Take a look back on all the women featured in our International Women’s Day 2023 campaign, featuring figures from University of Surrey, University of Southampton, the University of Portsmouth, Space South Central, and the European Space Agency.

University of Southampton PhD graduate Mekhi Dhesi is supporting the mission to tackle the space debris challenge in her new role at Astroscale.

Visitors of all ages were treated to an evening of expert-led astronomy at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard as the University of Portsmouth’s annual Stargazing event celebrated its 10th anniversary.

An invention by University of Southampton researchers that will enable satellites to deorbit safely has launched into space for the first time.

Satellite technology from the University of Surrey will help protect and create new habitats for the county’s wildlife in a three-year £1.25 million project, Space4Nature.

An exciting new publication by the University of Southampton is out now, showcasing some of the inspiring and pioneering space-related research taking place. Space at Southampton 2022 includes an in-depth look at work at the University to enable space-based solar power to become a reality, from clever coatings to absorb the sun’s energy without burning up, to inventing a new type of space reflector, to beaming the solar energy back down to Earth.