The letter calls on the Government to act quickly to achieve an agreement that preserves UK access to EU space programmes.

The letter follows a roundtable discussion held by the Sub-Committee on Thursday 15 March 2018 on the impact of Brexit on the UK space sector with witnesses from academia, research facilities, professional bodies and industry.

The Sub-Committee followed up the evidence session with a visit to the ‘space cluster’ at Harwell Campus.

Much of the evidence heard related to the UK’s participation in the EU’s Galileo and Copernicus programmes.

The threat to UK participation and access to Galileo was felt most sharply in relation to the programme’s security aspects, specifically the Public Regulated Service (PRS), which is restricted to qualified government users—one of which would have been the Ministry of Defence.

Read the letter in full here.