Sheffield University currently has a wide range of space-related expertise, including sensors, communications, materials, space systems, and theoretical modelling of space plasma dynamics. They have strong experience working with the European Space Agency through their Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering to design heuristics to speed up the way novel MOF catalysts are discovered for advancing fuel production technologies via photocatalytic CO2 reduction. The Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering and the School of Mathematics and Statistics are heavily involved in research topics that lie in the fields of solar/space plasmas, space weather, solar wind, the solar-terrestrial system as a whole, nonlinear systems, identification of linear and non-linear processes in data, and methods of data analysis for multi-spacecraft missions. The University of Sheffield has also collaborated with the European Space Agency through Professor Shaun Quegan, who led the EU Biomass Satellite project to quantify biomass through data and monitoring. The University runs several space-related, student-led extracurricular activities, such as the student rocketry team – Project Sunride – which has had great success and, as of 2023, holds the UK Open Altitude Record at 36,274 ft. They also have projects looking at building liquid rocket engines, rover design, and satellites.