We aim to update our news with funding opportunities, SPAN activities and those of our members.
01 August 2025
🚀 That’s a wrap on the UK Space Conference 2025 — what a jam-packed week it has been for the SPAN Project Office as we've been working out of Manchester this whole week!
31 July 2025
Key updates from the UK Space Agency’s ESA Policy & Operations (EOP) Team, along with a personal message to the community from Professor Carole Mundell, ESA’s Director of Science.
14 July 2025
The UK Space Academic Network (SPAN) is pleased to announce that Professor Anna Hogg has been nominated to serve as its next Co-Chair.
06 December 2024
The SPAN team attended the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) – UK Community Workshop at The Open University, led by Martin Barstow and Jesper Skottfelt. The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is NASA’s next flagship space astronomy mission, building on the legacy of Hubble, Webb, and Roman, to search for Earth-like planets and potential signs of life. […]
07 October 2024
The Whitepaper, now available from SPAN, covers and I hope reflects academic views on funding gap implications, membership of ESA, need for a strong national and bilateral programmes along with comments on links to industry and some general points.
01 October 2024
Space Science in Context (17–18 October, 2024) is returning for its third year! SSiC is a FREE, cross-disciplinary conference on outer space and society...
