UK space strategy and UK satellite infrastructure

Inquiry by the Science and Technology Committee (Commons), 23 April 2021 to 19 February 2024. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• Second Report - UK space strategy and UK satellite infrastructure (4 November 2022)
• Second Special Report - UK space strategy and UK satellite infrastructure: Government Response to the Committee’s Second Report (30 March 2023)
• Seventh Report - UK space strategy and UK satellite infrastructure: reviewing the licencing regime for launch (14 July 2023)
• Fifth Special Report - UK space strategy and UK satellite infrastructure: reviewing the licencing regime for launch: Government response to the Committees Seventh Report (27 October 2023)

Evidence sessions

• 3 November 2021: Professor Washington Yotto Ochieng, Imperial College London; Lucy Edge, Satellite Applications Catapult; Professor Anu Ojha, National Space Academy; Professor David Southwood, Imperial College London
• 17 November 2021: Dan Hart, Virgin Orbit; Nicholas Smith, Lockheed Martin Space; Alan Thompson, Skyrora Limited; Melissa Thorpe, Spaceport Cornwall; Scott Hammond, SaxaVord Spaceport; Pete Guthrie, Space Hub Sutherland
• 8 December 2021: Yasrine Ibnyahya, Inmarsat; Professor Sir Martin Sweeting, Surrey Satellite Technologies Ltd; Dr Hina Khan, Spire Global Limited; Jon Styles, Assimila; Chris McLaughlin, OneWeb
• 12 January 2022: Josef Aschbacher, European Space Agency; Dr Hiroshi Yamakawa, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency; Dr Philippe Baptiste, Centre national d'études spatiales—French National Space and Research Centre; Tim Johnson, Civil Aviation Authority; Colin Macleod, Civil Aviation Authority
• 9 February 2022: Paul Bate, UK Space Agency; Mark Thomson, Science and Technology Facilities Council; Hugo Robson, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy; Kwasi Kwarteng, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy; Rebecca Evernden, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
• 10 February 2022: Professor Malcolm Macdonald, University of Strathclyde; Professor Iain Woodhouse, University of Edinburgh
• 1 March 2023: Patrick McCall, Space Forge Ltd; Joshua Western, Space Forge Ltd; Dan Hart, Virgin Orbit; Melissa Quinn, Spaceport Cornwall; Sir Stephen Hillier CBE, Civil Aviation Authority; Tim Johnson, Civil Aviation Authority; Ian Annett, UK Space Agency
• 17 May 2023: Frank Strang, SaxaVord Spaceport; Dave Ballance, SaxaVord Spaceport