The National Satellite Test Facility (NSTF) will support the assembly, integration and testing of space payloads and satellites weighing up to seven tonnes.

We are investing £99 million from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund into the NSTF, with an additional £6 million coming from the National Productivity Investment Fund.

The NSTF is the UK’s first comprehensive set of space test facilities at this scale, and will enable UK industry to build bigger, more technologically advanced satellites and test them in the UK. It will be run by UKRI’s expert space hub, RAL Space.