The Harwell Space Cluster is the home to many space organisations, including the ESA Business Incubation Centre (BIC) and the European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications (ECSAT), both part of the European Space Agency. In addition, the campus hosts Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL Space), and Satellite Application Catapult HQ including its DISC, Antenna Test Ranges and Operations Centre facilities.

Situated on the Northamptonshire/Buckinghamshire border, at the heart of the Silverstone Technology Cluster, Silverstone Park provides a global destination for innovation, business development and engineering. At the forefront of global technological innovation, the Park has a solution-oriented approach to tenant relations and property management.

Westcott Space Cluster hosts Satellite Applications Catapult’s Agri Living Lab, Future Networks Development Centre, Healthy Living Lab, Westcott Innovation Centre and Westcott Business Incubator. It is also home to the UK Space Agency’s UK National Propulsion Test Facility.

As a specialist postgraduate university, Cranfield’s world-class expertise, large-scale facilities and unrivalled industry partnerships are creating leaders in technology and management globally

Harwell Space Cluster forms an integral part of the UK’s space sector and has grown into a dynamic, enterprising ecosystem of 105 space organisations employing over 1,400 people.

The Open University is world renowned for planetary exploration, electronic imaging, lunar science and astronomy. The recently formed astrobiology group is leading in planetary protection, governance and is working internationally with developing countries. The university has an excellent track record in the translation of space research into terrestrial applications, is growing its expertise in microgravity, and is driving new initiatives in Earth and Environmental Sciences. The university also is a partner in the successful SPRINT programme involving five leading universities to support SMEs to commercially exploit technologies, data and expertise developed for space. Our key research themes are listed below.

The Satellite Applications Catapult is at the heart of the satellite services revolution, driving take-up of space technology and applications to shape, and sustain, the world of tomorrow. We’re driven by how our actions help the organisations we work with, both large and small, bring new services to market. By connecting industry and academia we get new research off the ground and into the market more quickly.

The mission of the University of Cambridge is to contribute to society through education, learning and research at the highest international level.

Oxford University provides world-class research and education to benefit society on a local, regional, national and global scale.

The Westcott Space Cluster is located in the Buckinghamshire Enterprise Zone of the Westcott Venture Park, in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, and home to a growing nucleus of space-related companies developing new innovative technologies in rocket propulsion, 5G communications and in-orbit servicing and manufacturing. Space is one of the UK’s fastest growing sectors, attracting investment from Government, industry and private equity firms. Westcott alone has attracted over £40 million investment for the UK space sector and is a great example of what can be achieved through the Industrial Strategy.