What is the “commercial paradigm shift” that transitions space research into commercial space production? How does this shift help build a global supply chain for high-value terrestrial industries? Why will manufacturing substrates like gallium nitride or diamond in space allow companies to bypass decades of Earth-bound defect correction research? How do we move from building complex, multi-million-pound machines that we burn up on re-entry to reliable methods for bringing satellites back to Earth for refurbishment, reuse and upgrading? And how do we do this while reducing the cost of return by a factor of 10?

Join Alice and Andrew Bacon, the CTO and co-founder of Space Forge, as they talk about building autonomous, “unscrewed mini-space factories”, super-clean environments, uniform temperatures and perfect material mixing, far away in higher orbit and safe from human contamination.

Contributors:

Alice Bunn, President of UKspace

Dr Alice Bunn OBE FIMechE FRAeS CEng | LinkedIn

UKspace: Overview | LinkedIn

Andrew Bacon, CTO and co-founder of Space Forge

Andrew Bacon | LinkedIn

Space Forge | LinkedIn

Key topics covered:

• In-orbit manufacturing
• Ultra-vacuum/low contamination
• Microgravity
• Autonomous space factories
• Innovation in re-entry
• Low ballistic coefficient
• Sustainability and the environment
• Global supply chain
• Commercial space production

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What are the critical sovereign capabilities that DIP will be funding? Does DIP do enough to acknowledge the role of space as national infrastructure that underpins the UK defence stack? How will geospatial imagery and ISR data translate into active frontline capabilities? Can the UK securely guarantee that its international systems can operate without external interference? And why are “responsive launch” and assured access to space missing from the DIP?

Join Jonners and the Head of Policy at UKspace, Stephanie Ayres, as they discuss the DIP not as a “final outcome” but as a “blueprint” for a long-term journey.

Contributors:

Jonathan Daves, The Karman Line

Jonathan Daves | LinkedIn

The Karman Line | Website

Stephanie Ayres, Head of Policy UKspace

Stephanie Ayres | LinkedIn

UKspace: Overview | LinkedIn

Key topics covered:

• UK Defence Investment Plan (DIP)
• Sovereign capabilities
• Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR)
• Deep space radar
• Orbital asset protection
• Foundational infrastructure
• Launch capabilities
• Earth observation (EO)
• Position, Navigation, Timing (PNT)
• Freedom of action

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Did you know that the UK space industry is roughly the same size as the UK music and video games industries? And that beyond direct revenue, nearly £1 in every £5 of UK GDP is supported or enabled by satellite services? Or that, because the UK public sector budget is 0.2% of GDP compared with 0.8% for the EU, our market is more commercially driven and innovative?

So how to get to the next level? Should the UK Government pivot its role from grant provider to “anchor customer”? Should the UK build more strategic, resilient partnerships, for example with the Nordic and Baltic nations, with Germany, Japan and Southeast Asia? Will the SpaceX IPO crowd new capital into competing launch vehicles that, if regulation can be stripped back, will “grease the wheels” for facilities like SaxaVord to succeed?

And why, in five years or less, will regular landings on the moon become normalised and “boring”?

Contributors:

Alice Bunn, President of UKspace

Dr Alice Bunn OBE FIMechE FRAeS CEng | LinkedIn

UKspace: Overview | LinkedIn

Doug Liddle, Chair of UKSpace

Doug Liddle | LinkedIn

Greg Sadlier, Co-founder and director of know.space

Greg Sadlier | LinkedIn

know.space | LinkedIn

Key topics covered:

• SpaceX IPO
• UK space industry
• Sovereign characteristics
• Geopolitical partnerships
• Five-year outlook
• Domain awareness
• Orbital inspections and defence
• Asteroid mining
• SaxaVord

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