Transcript UKSA - CEOS

The UK Space Agency
Overview for CEOS
September 2012
The UK Space Agency
An executive agency of Department of Business
Innovation and Skills at the heart of UK efforts to
explore and benefit from space.
Reporting to Minister of Universities and Science
(David Willetts)
UK Civil Space Strategy 2012-2016
Themes:
•Growth through new opportunities;
•Growth from export;
•Innovation supporting growth;
•Science to enable growth;
•Education for growth;
•Growth through smarter government
Twitter feed: spacegovuk
UKSA context (EO focus)
• 70% of civil space investment by UKSA
and partners is channelled through ESA
• 33% increase in optional ESA funding in
Ministerial in 2012, mainly comms and EO
• Harwell: Satellite Applications Catapult,
facility for Climate and Environmental
Monitoring from Space (CEMS), ESA
ECSAT
Harwell and the wider UK space sector
UKSA partners
(TSB, research
councils, MoD,
Met Office, )
Galileo
ESA
Satellite
Applications
Catapult
CEMS: Centre for
Environmental
Monitoring from
Space
Copernicus
Harwell Space
Cluster
EU space
programme
International
Space
Agencies
GEO and
CEOS
Industry,
universities and
research
organisations
ESA
Business
Incubator
RAL Space:
ESA Centre
Including
existing
facilities
Applications
Climate Change
Exploration
Co-located
universities
and industry
Space Growth Action Plan
Industry-led report, UK Gov will respond
Target: 10% share of space economy by 2030
Climate and
environmental
services is 1 of
5 identified
markets
UKSA co-ordination activities in
area of climate services
• Expert representation
at
– CEOS SST Virtual
Constellation
– CEOS/CGMS WG
Clim
• Secretariat funding for
UK stakeholder group
on “Climate Data from
Space”
– Industry, govt, MetO,
academia, RCUK etc
• Support ESA EO
programmes,
including Climate
Change Initiative
UK stakeholder concern for WG Climate
consideration
• UK (and others) are investing in capacity for climate data
records from space, including SST
– big data facilities at Harwell, ESA CCI subscription
• Loss of expertise & documentation relevant to calibration of
past sensors is a danger to the ability of space-based CDRs
to be credible and improvable in the long run
• Space agencies including CEOS and CGMS agencies need
to take active steps to digitize and curate paper-based
archives of such information
– Of course, some action is taking place already, but is it sufficient and
is it co-ordinated?
UKSA EO Team: Ruth Boumphrey, Maria Adams, Alice Bunn,
Beth Greenaway, Elizabeth Seaman, Tracey Whitbread