(Source: UK Space Agency press release)

The UK Space Agency is seeking multidisciplinary teams for the Space Collaborative Innovation Team Initiative (Space CITI). Successful teams will be funded up to £0.5M and provided with facilities at ISIC, the International Space Innovation Centre at Harwell, Oxford.

Space CITI aims to foster innovation in the UK space sector as a key goal of the National Space Technology Programme (NSTP). The Announcement of Opportunity will call for projects that require funding to:

• build the technical and commercial business case for a new UK space-related business;
• solve a technical challenge preventing the creation of a new UK space product;
• create a working prototype of a new UK space-related service or product; or
• develop a spin-out product or application of space technology or space data.

View the Announcement of Opportunity.