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UK Space Agency
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UK Space Agency is the United Kingdom's civil space agency, founded on 1 April 2010 and based at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire [1][2]. Official GOV.UK material places the agency under the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, and 2026 restructuring coverage states that the UK Space Agency name and brand continue within the DSIT space directorate structure [2][3].
For Earth-observation buyers, UKSA is most relevant as a public funder and programme partner, rather than as the sole operator of every mission associated with UK public EO activity [2][4]. NovaSAR-1 connects UKSA to S-band synthetic-aperture radar activity, while UK-DMC and related Disaster Monitoring Constellation records anchor the earlier UK public EO line [5][6][7]. The agency's 2024/25 budget is recorded at GBP 618.2 million, and Rebecca Evernden is recorded as director from April 2026 [4][2].
Operates
- TopSatended
launched 2005-10-27 / Sun-synchronous LEO ~682-707 km, 98.18 deg inclination / 25 km swath
- [1]UK Space Agency official page, GOV.UKagency doc2026-06-20
- [2]UK Space Agency, Wikipediacommunity2026-06-20
- [3]UK Space Agency to join DSIT in 2026 restructure, The Engineerthird party2026-06-20
- [4]NovaSAR-1, SSTLoperator engineering2026-06-20
- [5]NovaSAR-1, eoPortalcommunity2026-06-20
- [6]UK-DMC, Wikipediacommunity2026-06-20
- [7]UK Space Agency Sees Budget Growth Under DSIT, Payload Spacethird party2026-06-20