News

We aim to update our news with funding opportunities, SPAN activities and those of our members.

04 June 2020

SPAN-UKSA Academic COVID-19 Webinar

More than 70 attendees joined the webinar on the 2nd of June to hear from UKSA and SPAN what impacts the UK's space research organisations have been reporting in COVID-19 surveys. A recording of the webinar is available here and the questions and...

18 May 2020

UK Space Academic Institutions Covid-19 Survey

Academic institutions and research labs in the UK are invited to complete the survey which will be repeated on a two week cycle. The current survey runs from the 18th of May to the 26th of May.

26 February 2020

The Cosmic Cast: an Earth and planetary science podcast from the University of Manchester

PhD and post-doctoral researchers from Manchester's Isotope Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry group have been working on an Earth and planetary science podcast, The Cosmic Cast. On The Cosmic Cast, they talk to researchers, from PhD to professor...

28 January 2020

SPAN organising a Small Satellite Workshop

SPAN is holding a meeting to discuss a UK Small Satellite Programme. The workshop is kindly being hosted by the University of Strathclyde and SoXSA. The objective is to review the appetite and scope of a SmallSat/CubeSat programme for the UK, to...

04 December 2019

ESA ministers commit to biggest ever budget

ESA’s Council at Ministerial Level, Space19+, has concluded in Seville, Spain, with the endorsement of the most ambitious plan to date for the future of ESA and the whole European space sector. Full Article and charts.

14 October 2019

New £1 million grant to study space weather

Open University researchers have received £1 million from the UK Space Agency to contribute to the design of new sensors to study space weather. A team of researchers in the OU’s Centre for Electronic Imaging, led by Dr Matthew Soman, Space...