We are pleased to share with you the outputs from the Space Data & Analysis Working Group led by Nic Walton:
These materials represent a significant collective effort across the community, led by Dr Nic Walton and the Working Group, and reflect both the strength of UK capability and the urgency of addressing key challenges in data infrastructure, skills, and coordination across the space ecosystem. If you have comments or feedback, please don’t hesitate to contact us or Nic who has shared his details on the attachments.
Nic – thank you for leading our working group and this paper!
To our community, we hope these resources are useful in your own work, whether in shaping research, informing policy engagement, or strengthening collaborations across academia, industry, and government. Please do use it and let us know if there are opportunities to share this work and give it a platform.
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SPAN meetings offer key opportunities to collaborate, share ideas, and hear updates on papers in development. Your input is welcome and vital to shaping this work.
08 September 2026
We shared yesterday the news that the Government has published the new UK Space Strategy, alongside its Technical Delivery Annex. Ahead of publication, SPAN was invited to provide a response from our Co-Chairs, Professors Anna Hogg and Mark Sims. Their statement has been included in the Government's announcement:
10 August 2026
Over the summer Anushka Sharma had the privilege of moderating discussions and speaking on panels across the UK space sector, from security and defence at Farnborough International Airshow, to running a session on SPAN at the National Astronomy Meeting in Birmingham, and most recently joining a panel on DWC Resilience forum hosted at Fieldfisher
