Organisers of Women In Space have promised future events following rave reviews from attendees of its first Networking Reception, held in London last week.

The UK Space Agency has launched a new programme to help businesses understand and exploit the benefits of satellite data and services – and additional support is available to companies in Hampshire, Surrey and the Isle of Wight from Space South Central.

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.

There’s less than a month to go until Venturefest South brings together the region’s brightest minds and big thinkers for its #VFS23: Festival of Innovation - and Space South Central will be there.

International space projects from across the Space South Central region have won funding from the UK Space Agency (UKSA) in the first phase of its £20 million International Bilateral Fund (IBF), aimed at boosting research and investment in new technologies through worldwide collaborations.

For International Moon Day, Space South Central interviewed members of the Lunar Pathfinder project from SSTL.

Satellite imagery released by Surrey-based geospatial analytics company, Alcis, shows a 99% reduction in poppy cultivation in Helmand Province, which previously produced more than 50% of Afghanistan’s opium.

Space4Nature, a groundbreaking initiative to map, classify, restore and connect habitats across Surrey, has become one of only two UK climate projects awarded international Space Climate Observatory (SCO) accreditation.

Dan Smith has joined the Space South Central team as Business Development Manager.

Space South Central has become a member of UKspace, the industry’s official trade body.

For Earth Day 2023 we interviewed Phil Wu from Absolar Solutions regarding how space can help climate change, what they are doing to contribute and their role within the Space South Central region.

On 1 April 2023, the South Coast Centre of Excellence in Satellite Applications (SCCoE) officially transitioned into Space South Central’s Enterprise Network, supporting the UK’s largest space cluster.

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.

On the 150th anniversary of the World Meteorological Organization, we interview Euan Harvey from GlobalTrust about World Meteorological Day (WMD). This year's theme is The Future of Weather, Climate, and Water Across Generations. We asked Euan about GlobalTrust's usage of satellite data to help the future of our climate and the technologies they are implementing to help in the future.

Ignite Space 2023 took place this March at Bristol Aerospace. The event, hosted by BBC presenter Dallas Campbell, brought together many different parts of the UK space community, all under the wings of the iconic Concorde.

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

The south-central region’s thriving space industry has been awarded £1.2 million by the UK Space Agency in a drive to boost further innovation and growth.

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.

Orbit South Coast, our monthly networking event for the region’s space industry, is back with a new name, Orbit South Central, and new ‘roadshow’ format as we transition into the UK’s biggest space cluster, Space South Central.

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