UK Space Agency

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UK Space Agency Saleh Ahmed Assistant Director,
UK Space Agency

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UK Space Agency

• The UK Space Agency is an executive agency of the
  Department for Business,
• Innovation and Skills (BIS) and is at the heart
  of UK efforts to explore and
• benefit from space.
• The UK Space Agency was launched officially on 23
  March 2010 and became an
• executive agency of BIS on 1 April 2011. The
  Agency is responsible for all strategic
• decisions on the UK civil space programme and
  provides a clear, single voice for UK
• space ambitions.
• The UK Space Agency
• co-ordinates UK civil space activity
• supports academic research
• nurtures the UK space industry
• raises the profile of UK space activities at home
  and abroad
• works to increase understanding of space and its
  practical benefits and
• inspires our next generation of UK scientists and
  engineers.

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An evolving UK space sector

• Framework for strategic engagement with Space for
  Growth
• Industry-led strategy to grow the sector over 20
  years (Space IGS) The Space Agency
• Goal to win 10 of 400B global market by 2030
• Technology Strategy Board
• Establishment of an ESA presence in the UK
• Creation of the International Space Innovation
  Centre at Harwell ISIC
• Satellite Applications Catapult Centre
• National Centre for Earth Observation NCEO

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Growth the key to the UK Space sector
9 growth per annum for a decade
Source The Size and Health of the UK Space
Industry (November 2010), Oxford Economics
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Global space economy forecast to be 375 billion
per annum by 2019
Source Andrew Davies, Sunwynd Ltd, for IGS Mid
Life Update Summer 2011
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Purpose of UK Space Agency

• Ensures that the UK retains and grows a strategic
  space capability in
• manufacturing systems
• services
• technologies
• applications
• science
• Acts to sustain the
• economic growth
• scientific excellence
• societal benefits
• of the UK civil space sector.

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Policy and Programme Priorities

• Telecoms and navigation
• New applications for Government and business
• Exploit investment in Galileo

• National space policy
• European space policy
• Global partnerships
• Technology
• Education, Skills Outreach

• ESA exploration science missions
• robotic exploration for science , technology and
  inspiration
• UK in a global framework

• Commercial exploitation and deliver policy from
  EO data analysis
• Exploit Global Monitoring for Environment and
  Security (GMES)

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FP 7 - 6th Call

• Announced in July, deadline 21 November
• Linking research and innovation, bridging to
  Horizon 2020
• 126m budget

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6th Call content

• GMES (59m)
• Climate change
• Downstream service stimulation
• Remote sensing methods 
• Integration of satcomms and satnav with
  space-based observing systems
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6th Call Content

• (2) Space Foundations (51m)  
• space science and exploration data exploitation
• Earth-analogue research
• Critical technologies for non-dependence
• reducing the vulnerability of assets
• Space-weather
• in-orbit collisions avoidance
• (3) Cross-cutting (16m)  
• Spin-out of space technologies
• Cooperation with third countries (China, Ukraine)

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UK Space Agency saleh.ahmed_at_ukspaceagency.bis.g
si.gov.uk
http//www.bis.gov.uk/ukspaceagency