{"id":285456,"date":"2025-11-27T03:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/285456\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T03:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:03:07","slug":"startup-spaceflux-secures-key-role-in-uk-civil-defense-space-tracking-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/285456\/","title":{"rendered":"Startup Spaceflux secures key role in UK civil\/defense space tracking effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 With three contracts over the past three months, UK startup <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceflux.io\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spaceflux<\/a> is now positioned as a major provider of <a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/tag\/space-situational-awareness\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">space monitoring<\/a> data to Britain\u2019s National Space Operations Centre (NSpOC) jointly run by the Defence Ministry and the UK Space Agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder the 3 contracts, Spaceflux will be able to deliver persistent surveillance across all orbits \u2014 from LEO [low Earth orbit] to GEO [geosynchronous Earth orbit] and beyond \u2014 combining routine monitoring of priority UK satellites with on-demand tasking in the event of collisions, fragmentations, or unexpected manoeuvres,\u201d the company <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceflux.io\/press-release-spaceflux-awarded-multimillion-pound-uk-government-contracts-to-deliver-sovereign-space-surveillance-and-tracking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> Nov. 20.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in 2022, Spaceflux operates some 15 electro-optical telescopes equipped with short-wave infrared imaging that provides day and night capability based around the globe, as well as a research laboratory in London. The firm won its first contract from <a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/tag\/uk-space-command\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UK Space Command<\/a> and the UK Space Agency in 2023 to provide space monitoring data and satellite tracking data and to build a ground-based SDA sensor in Cyprus under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/new-telescope-to-provide-uk-with-crucial-space-awareness\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Project Nyx Alpha<\/a>. The value of that contract is unspecified.<\/p>\n<p>The UK has a permanent military presence in Cyprus, operating in the British overseas territories of Akrotiri and Dhekelia. Royal Air Force Akrotiri, for example, is used for British operations in the Middle East and for combat jet training.<\/p>\n<p>Data from Spaceflux\u2019s own telescopes is augmented by data from other types of space monitoring sensors via a consortium with partners, according to the company\u2019s announcement. These include: Safran and GMV, providing passive radio-frequency geolocation data; Look Up, data from radar; EOS, laser ranging data; and Optera, data from neuromorphic cameras. The fused data feeds into NSpOC\u2019s BOREALIS command and control (C2) system.<\/p>\n<p>While the company did not divulge details about the three contracts referenced in release, NSpOC granted one award to Spaceflux in November and two in September according to <a href=\"https:\/\/bidstats.uk\/tenders\/?ntype=tender#859308031-858915015-27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bidstats<\/a>, a website monitoring UK government contract announcements. The two September awards totaled \u00a34.5 million ($5.9 million); the November award (focused on LEO data) was for \u00a3551 million ($722 million).<\/p>\n<p>NSpOC in July celebrated its first year of operations. \u201cNSpOC currently provides collision warning services to over 90% of all UK-licensed satellites including 100% of UK satellites in the most congested Low Earth Orbit (LEO),\u201d according to the center\u2019s website. <\/p>\n<p>Tim Martin in Belfast contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 With three contracts over the past three months, UK startup Spaceflux is now positioned as a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,20021,21253,56,116197,75444,54,55,116198],"class_list":["post-285456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-force","tag-space-situational-awareness","tag-uk","tag-uk-ministry-of-defence","tag-uk-space-command","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us-space-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}