News & Case Studies

As Astronaut touches down in Leeds 9 October 2024.Astronaut Matthias Maurer on his visit to The University of Leeds Leeds alum Matthias Maurer spent 175 days on the International Space Station in 2022. He returned to Leeds to meet staff, stud…

Agemaspark have manufactured precision components that have gone to Mars, circulate the earth on the in International Space Station and various communication satellites. When they launched the international space station, it included boxes made from …

  Space Hub Yorkshire can announce the successful launch of Space North, a project funded by the UK Space Agency to boost Space sector growth across the UK. Space North is a collaborative initiative aimed at positioning Northern England as a p…

  “Laser Additive Solutions set sights on the Space industry with new machinery.” Laser Additive Solutions Ltd (LAS) are a company based in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, who specialise in laser joining processes and additive manufacturing, i…

We are excited to announce that Space Hub Yorkshire, along with our partners, has been selected to host the Satellite Applications Catapult’s first pilot Connected Capabilities Network: the UK Earth Observation Network for Sustainability (UK-EONS). …

SHY host Regional Clusters Advisory Board (RCAB) Meeting May 2023 Space Hub Yorkshire with The University of Leeds were proud to host the RCAB meeting May 2023. The meeting was extremely successful with valuable engagement from Government department…

Space Hub Yorkshire are delighted to announce a brand new partnership with women in leadership project  #WECAN (women empowered through coaching and networking) #WECAN will be supporting Space Hub Yorkshire members with leadership and management ski…

Space Hub Yorkshire are delighted to announce a brand new partnership with women in leadership project  #WECAN (women empowered through coaching and networking). Led by Leeds Beckett University and working in partnership with Edge Hill University an…

Due to the recent UKSA levelling up funding boost for the UK Space sector, we are excited to announce SHY’s GreenSpace Project The GreenSpace project will harness space-enabled technology to address local priorities, such as using Earth Observation …

SHY have won the regional space cluster UKSA fund! Projects aimed at boosting the space sector across the UK are to receive funding from the UK Space Agency (UKSA) and Space Hub Yorkshire is proudly one of them. This funding forms part of a natio…

Christopher Stewart SPIN Project: Ultra-Green Launch & Space Transportation Systems Study Supervisors: Oliver Turnbull – Head Systems Engineer & Nick Doughty – Systems Engineer What are you studying at university?I studied a Bsc …

SPINtern Showcase on 29 November 2022 Nexus – University of Leeds By Satellite Applications Catapult Nexus – University of Leeds, Tue 29 November 2022, 10:00 – 17:00 GMT An opportunity for interns and supervisors to meet and network with …

Back in early April, Space Hub Yorkshire were kindly invited to speak at the South Yorkshire IoT Meet Up – hosted at the Digital Media Centre in Barnsley. It was a fantastic opportunity to hear from a variety of speakers in the Internet of Things…

Manufacturing Space Opportunities – May 2022 Opportunities for Manufacturers in the Space Sector 11th May 2022, 3M Buckley Innovation Centre Opportunities for Manufacturers in the Space Sector Event – How To Guide, 11 May 2022 In p…

AMRC Opportunities in Space EVENT April 2022 April 26 2022, The AMRC Knowledge Transfer Centre (KTC) The global space economy is projected to grow from an estimated £270 billion in 2019 to £490 billion by 2030. In light of this, Unive…

11 April 2022. University of Leeds UK SAR Conference held at NEXUS. UK SAR Workshop was presented by Space Hub Yorkshire SAR – Synthetic Aperture Radar – an active imaging process with applications to environment, civil and defence se…

15 March 2022. Leeds University Business School Innovate Space Festival at NEXUS, Leeds. Innovate Space Festival by Space Hub YorkshireSpace Hub Yorkshire hosted a two-day hybrid Innovate Space Festival on Tuesday 15 & Wednesday 16 March…

Representatives from Space Hub Yorkshire attended the launch of the UK Ministry of Defence’s Defence Space Strategy. It was an opportunity to hear from ministers, civil servants and military leaders on how the the MOD will be engaging in further acti…

The Space Hub Yorkshire is very pleased to have received funding from the UK Space Agency for development and maintenance of Space Cluster in Yorkshire region. Ten space clusters across the UK have been given a boost, thanks to new UK Space Agency…

Join Satuccino event locally from Space Enterprise Lab at Nexus with local group (in hybrid fashion). The Satuccino is a monthly networking event hosted by Satellite Applications Catapult. We are dialling in for the hybrid portion of the event from t…

Four students on the SENSE Earth Observation CDT have won National Environment Research Council (NERC) funding for their proposed outreach project “SatSchool”. The students are based at the University of Leeds and University of Edinburgh, and this bi…

HRH The Princess Royal on her visit to Teledyne Defence & Space, in January 2022 Teledyne Defence & Space has been awarded with the Queen’s Award for Innovation. Space Hub Yorkshire has worked closely with Teledyne, who are active in t…

Transform SY (powered by Entrepreneurial Spark) Transform SY (powered by Entrepreneurial Spark) – the virtual accelerator designed to transform the entrepreneurial landscape in South Yorkshire – is starting this week. After 6 weeks of inte…

With the UK well positioned to take advantage of the growing space industry, Space Hub Yorkshire, is working to bring together the public and private sector and academic organisations to attract Space technology opportunities to the region in order t…

Nexus at the University of Leeds is now home to a new hub for Space innovation: a Space Enterprise Lab. This Space Enterprise Lab will be one of only eleven in the country and will work in collaboration with existing space organisations and ac…

Dr Ruth Amey, SHY Manager, has been awarded a Michael Beverley Innovation Fellowship from Nexus to create a research translation programme for Space Hub Yorkshire. The Michael Beverley Innovation Fellowship aims to build the innovation culture and…

Glasgow Glacier formally named to mark COP26 A glacier in West Antarctica has been formally named after the city of Glasgow to mark its hosting of the COP26 climate change conference.  The Scottish city will welcome more than 100 world lea…

Would you like to come and work for a new, developing Space cluster in the Yorkshire region? We have two available positions working at the University of Leeds, funded by the UK Space Agency. One of the roles will focus on the on Space Hub Yorkshi…

The University of Leeds has been successul in its bid to join SPRINT as an associate member. SPRINT is the SPace Research and Innovation Network for Technology, a unique partnership of top UK space universities, industry, government agencies and …

The SHY Intern Network The summer intern network organised by SHY is an annual initiative to bring together students on space-related research experience placements (REPs), both industrial and academic, which last around 6 weeks. The application gam…

The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) help and provide advantages to UK defence and security by seeking out solutions and new capabilities in addition to understanding stakeholder requirements. They welcome ideas from organisations of all sizes…

SHY is incredibly proud to have partners in both academia and industry. We also aim to showcase what university students are doing in order to form their own bridge with the space sector. This spotlight article focuses on the Leeds University Rocketr…

Deadline 5th August 2021 The Royal Society is looking for an early career researcher to complete a placement of up to six months who will work on and support policy projects within their emerging technologies team. The team’s main output is a se…

SHY has an exciting network of space academics based around Yorkshire. Those at the University of Leeds run an annual open research festival called Be Curious, which aims to showcase how academic research is making a world of difference to people’s l…

On 20th July 2021, Space Hub Yorkshire ran a virtual welcome event for students on the SHY summer intern network programme, undertaking research projects in various disciplines within environmental science, which utilise and manipulate satellite and …

Mandy Ridyard, Space Hub Yorkshire chair, discusses how Yorkshire, the birthplace of stainless steel, could once again be heart of an industrial revolution. Read the full article here (behind a paywall).…

On the 20th April 2021, SENSE held its first industry symposium. SENSE is a ‘Centre for Doctoral Training’, a PhD programme which is topic specific and provides bespoke training – SENSE’s focus is on Earth Observation and advanced data techniques suc…

PhD student Eva Zand gave a Space Hub Yorkshire outreach talk this month ‘How can we use Satellites for volcano monitoring?’ You can watch Eva’s talk and find out more of SHY’s outreach activities on our skills for schools page.…

The Space Hub Yorkshire successfully launched at the West Yorkshire Innovation Festival on 17th March 2020. Watch on YouTube below to hear from SHY chair Mandy Ridyard how space and Yorkshire go together, along with talks from Stuart Martin o…