Spaceflight

Guidance and regulation

Launching or returning a rocket or space plane: rules and regulations
- Detailed guide
- 17 December 2025
- Department for Business and Trade, Department for Transport, UK Space Agency, Ofcom, Civil Aviation Authority, and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Operating an orbital space object: rules and regulations
- Detailed guide
- 17 December 2025
- Department for Business and Trade, Department for Transport, UK Space Agency, Ofcom, Civil Aviation Authority, and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Operating a spaceport: rules and regulations
- Detailed guide
- 17 December 2025
- Department for Business and Trade, Department for Transport, UK Space Agency, Ofcom, Civil Aviation Authority, and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Outer Space Act 1986 and Space Industry Act 2018: Third-party liabilities and insurance
- Guidance
- 1 June 2022
- UK Space Agency
Commercial spaceflight regulation: environmental objectives
- Guidance
- 25 June 2021
- Department for Transport

Soil moisture and ocean salinity (SMOS)
- 27 November 2024
- UK Space Agency
- Case study
UKube-1
- 5 July 2024
- UK Space Agency
- Case study
First launch from the UK
- 16 January 2023
- UK Space Agency
- Case study
UK space regulator issues Virgin Orbit licences ahead of UK launch
- 21 December 2022
- Department for Transport, Civil Aviation Authority, and UK Space Agency
- News story
Spaceport Cornwall receives first-ever UK spaceport licence
- 16 November 2022
- Department for Transport, UK Space Agency, and Civil Aviation Authority
- News story

Transport and transport technology: public attitudes tracker
- 28 January 2026
- Department for Transport
- Research
An evaluation of UK funding through the ARTES programme
- 30 October 2019
- UK Space Agency
- Research
Evaluation: UK Spaceport Business Case
- 11 October 2018
- UK Space Agency
- Research
Commercial spaceplane certification and operations: UK government review
- 15 July 2014
- Department for Transport, Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, Ministry of Defence, UK Space Agency, and Civil Aviation Authority
- Research

Draft policy proposals for exempting defence-related activities from the Space Industry Act 2018
- 27 November 2024
- Department for Transport
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 13 October 2024
Commercial spaceflight: environmental objectives for the spaceflight regulator
- 25 June 2021
- Department for Transport
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 24 March 2021
National Space Strategy in Action
- 19 July 2023
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and Ministry of Defence
- Policy paper
National space strategy
- 1 February 2022
- UK Space Agency, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, Ministry of Defence, and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
- Policy paper
UK severe space weather preparedness strategy
- 27 September 2021
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
- Policy paper

Spaceports: keeping people safe
- 21 February 2019
- UK Space Agency
- Corporate report
UK Space Agency: spending report for January 2018
- 28 February 2018
- UK Space Agency
- Transparency
UK Space Agency: spending report for November 2017
- 13 December 2017
- UK Space Agency
- Transparency
UK Space Agency: spending report for October 2017
- 15 November 2017
- UK Space Agency
- Transparency