Satellite Applications Catapult

The Satellite Applications Catapult is an elite technology and innovation company which exists to grow the UK space sector and, as satellite applications become increasingly fundamental to many sectors, to grow the UK economy.

Our work is focussed on three areas:

Increasing Market Adoption – we stimulate market demand for satellite services by bringing together suppliers and end-users in sectors like financial services, communications and agriculture where satellites can make a real difference.

Business Support – we support businesses in the sector directly with access to facilities, technical experts and help with starting, commercialising and scaling-up a business

Collaborative Projects and Programmes – we play key roles in collaborative and commercial R&D projects, often taking risks which other companies are not able or willing to do.

We do this across three missions. These represent areas of great opportunity for the UK space sector and wider UK economy, areas where we have existing UK expertise and strong academic and commercial capability, and where the Catapult can play a clear role in solving the most immediate or pressing challenges.

Our missions are:

Sustainable Earth – Growing the UK space sector by increasing the integration of space data, technology and services into non-space sectors, where doing so can make the greatest positive difference to global society.

Connected and Autonomous Earth – Supporting the development and adoption of technologies essential for enabling universal connectivity and coordinated autonomy.

Beyond our Earth – Driving the growth of the UK space sector by leveraging opportunities arising from the in-space economy.