Space is now critical national infrastructure, underpinning connectivity, navigation and timing, climate and environmental monitoring, and national security. This fireside will explore how the UK is translating the National Space Strategy and Space Industrial Plan into delivery: strengthening priority sovereign capabilities including satellite communications, Earth observation, launch and space domain awareness, building a more competitive UK space economy, and ensuring the UK remains a leader in safe, sustainable and well-regulated space activity. It will also examine how the government is improving the “golden thread” from strategy to policy to execution to accelerate delivery and unlock private investment.

• What are the two or three UK space capabilities the government is prioritising this decade, and what must change to deliver them faster?

• How will the UK turn space policy into industrial growth, exports and private investment while keeping critical capabilities anchored in the UK?

• How can the UK balance rapid commercial growth with leadership on space sustainability, safety and long-term resilience of the services the economy depends on?