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Space

The Falcon 9 rocket with Transporter-14 mission payload on the launchpad

Space Forge launches first in-orbit manufacturing satellite

The engineering workforce must reflect the society it serves

Together we engineer: Celebrating INWED 2025

From left to right: Professor Keith Ryden, James Whitfield, Astha Astha, Dr Keiran Clifford, project leader Dr Noelia Noël and Luca Ferrian

Surrey teams work to take the shine off satellites

Robots could assemble space infrastructure without humans

UK’s SteamJet chosen for Artemis II offshoot

Gibeon meteorite, National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC

Laser ultrasound tests space rock stiffness

Materials produced in orbit could reduce CO₂ emissions by up to 75 per cent

Space forge raises £22.6m to build materials in orbit

Matthew Deans of the James Watt School of Engineering loads a cartridge of 3D-printed material samples into the NextSpace TestRig for testing

NextSpace Testrig to derisk 3D-printing in space

Peter Kyle, secretary of state for science, innovation and technology, visits Airbus

Airbus UK to land Europe’s first rover on Mars

This prototype of a lunar regolith processing system has been built using a BBQ wood pellet feeder on the left, a domestic microwave oven in the middle, and an auger on the right, with building sand used as a lunar regolith simulant

SonoChem wins £150k Aqualunar Challenge for lunar water extraction

Lightsail design could power interstellar travel

Multi-partner efforts will result in development of innovative CMOS sensors

Collaboration to deliver sovereign space imaging sensing