The UK Space Agency has warned that its position as the UK's space policy hub could be at risk due to changes to national R&D policymaking bodies and uncertainty over Brexit.
The agency has reiterated its ambition for the UK to win 10 per cent of the world’s space market by 2030. But in its annual report and accounts for 2016-17, published on 28 June, the UKSA says that “change and uncertainty” in UK innovation and research could jeopardise its policy role.
The creation of the umbrella body UK Research and Innovation is likely to reduce the agency’s prominence in the UK’s space community, it says.
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