SPAN Space Data White Paper

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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24 June 2026

SPAN Town Hall Summary – June 2026

SPAN Town Hall reinforced SPAN's role as the national voice of the UK space academic community and highlighted the growing recognition across government that academia is central to delivering the UK's ambitions in space through research excellence, innovation and strategic collaboration.

04 March 2026

Press release – Space firms to scale-up and thrive in Britain with government backing for bolder strategy

Space firms to scale-up and thrive in Britain with government backing for bolder strategy

03 December 2025

NEWS: UK Space Agency invests £17 million to drive next wave of space innovation

The UK Space Agency has today announced the recipients of the National Space Innovation Programme (NSIP). We extend our warmest congratulations to the academic and industry teams whose projects have been selected for support.