Satellites
(asked on 14th March 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many satellites under the control of UK-registered businesses have been in orbit in each year of the past 15 years; and what estimate they have made of the number of satellites under the control of UK-registered business in orbit by 2035.
Answered by
Lord Vallance of Balham
Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
This question was answered on 28th March 2025
According to the UN Index of Objects Launched in Outer Space and following the Elevation-1 satellite launch earlier this year, there are now 763 UK owned satellites in orbit. We do not currently have an estimate of the number of UK-registered satellites expected to be in orbit by 2035.