UK government, industry push partnerships to speed space innovation

Dawn Bushaus2026-09-18T04:00:00

Source: TelcoTitans

The UK’s new £7.8bn space strategy places sovereignty at its core, but industry leaders argue that international partnerships, open standards, and multinational ecosystems will be critical if the country hopes to compete at meaningful scale.

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Themes: 3GPP standards; Digital sovereignty; Infrastructure resilience; International partnerships; Non-terrestrial networks (NTN); Open standards; Satellite communications (Satcoms); Space domain awareness (SDA); Space strategy; Strategic communications; Technological sovereignty; Terrestrial-satellite convergence.
Events: Connected Britain 2026.
People: Gerry Collins; Ian Murray; Richard Thomason; Stuart Birchall.
Geographic: China; Europe; United Kingdom (UK); United States (US).
Organisations: Airbus; Amazon; Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade; European Space Agency (ESA); Eutelsat; Hispasat; IRIS²; Lynk Global; Omnispace; OneWeb; SES; SKYNET; Starlink; UK Space Agency; Zen Internet.

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