Our Fragile Space by Max Alexander is an influential photography-led public outreach project focused on the critical issue of space debris and the sustainability initiatives to prevent it. Displaying these images at the ISAM conference in Belfast will raise awareness of how dependant we are on space, and how protecting space is in everyone's interests. It will help build political impetus in resolving the space debris issue, and inform, influence and affect change with policymakers and industry, as well as raising the UK Space Agency's profile and championing the UKSA's leadership in Space Sustainability in a historically under-served region.
This partnership has been in place with the Scout Association since the early days of UKSA Our sponsorship enables the Scout Association to offer 5 'Space Badges' across different ages groups and across the UK, to insert extension activities into their regular newsletter to Scouts and Scout Leaders, a partnership page on the Scouts website, to take part in activities at Scout events and training for Leaders, and to have our logo on the Space Badges.
UKSA intends to procure a supplier to act as an external delivery partner to provide highly specialist knowledge, skills and expertise (KSE) in relation to capabilities relevant to national security, specifically Space Domain Awareness (SDA), In-Orbit Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing (ISAM) and Space Control and Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT). This is a call-off contract for the provision of knowledge, skills and experience relating to individual work packages within SDA, ISAM and PNT that cannot be fulfilled by any other provider on grounds of technical expertise (Schedule 5, Paragraph 6). UKSA will only award call-off contracts through this mechanism following internal technical review to confirm the proposed work package is in scope of this requirement and meets the requirements set out in Schedule 5.
The call-off contract includes a number of work packages relating to national security policy development, feasibility studies and policy insights, including at classifications above OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE.