{"id":47406,"date":"2026-07-20T12:30:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T11:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=47406"},"modified":"2026-07-20T12:30:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T11:30:51","slug":"government-offers-42m-to-develop-uk-leo-satellite-broadband-and-comms-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/07\/government-offers-42m-to-develop-uk-leo-satellite-broadband-and-comms-tech.html","title":{"rendered":"Government Offers \u00a342m to Develop UK LEO Satellite Broadband and Comms Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government&#8217;s UK Space Agency has today opened up the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/connectivity-in-low-earth-orbit-c-leo-programme-call-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">third funding round<\/a> under their 4-year \u00a3160m <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/08\/160m-gov-fund-may-fuel-future-uk-5g-and-broadband-satellites.html\">Connectivity in Low Earth Orbit<\/a> (C-LEO) programme, which is offering \u00a342m to develop new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/satellite\">satellite<\/a> technologies and components to help supply \u201c<em>high-speed internet, communications and data services<\/em>\u201d around the world.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Regular readers might recall that the first funding around under C-LEO committed \u00a318m to three projects at the start of 2025 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/02\/government-invests-16m-to-help-develop-leo-broadband-satellite-tech.html\">here<\/a>) \u2013 helping to develop new user terminals, active antennas and on-board regenerative processors etc. A second funding round of \u00a330m was then tabled in March 2026 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/gov-commit-30m-to-help-develop-uk-leo-satellite-broadband-and-related-tech.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> The C-LEO programme awards funding through two different routes. Some grants are awarded directly by the UK Space Agency, with further contracts from ESA.<\/div>\n<p>The latest pot of \u00a342m is once again being offered to UK businesses, universities and research organisations to help &#8220;<em>develop new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/satellite\">satellite<\/a> communications technologies<\/em>&#8220;. The projects in this round &#8220;<em>must focus<\/em>&#8221; on one or more of five areas: on-board processing, active antennas, optical links, networking and routing, or user terminals.<\/p>\n<p>Each chosen project will be allocated between around \u00a34m to \u00a325m and must include a &#8220;<em>compelling element of matched funding<\/em>&#8221; to be eligible under the programme. The latest funding Call opens today and will close at 12:00pm GMT on Monday 7th September 2026. The UK Space Agency aims to notify all applicants of the results of their Stage One proposals by Friday 2nd October 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The National Space Innovation Programme (NSIP) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/national-space-innovation-programme-call-3\">is separately launching a new \u00a320 million funding call<\/a> to support the development of space technologies across UK industry, universities and research organisations, with projects due to begin in April 2027. Applications for that are welcome across all areas of space technology, with up to 40% of the budget focused on Space Domain Awareness and In-Space Assembly and Manufacturing.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Space Minister, Liz Lloyd, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Space is not just a scientific frontier, it is a strategic one. 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