The Southampton Space Institute will use expertise and facilities for education and jobs creation.
A new facility that will help develop and test space satellite engines opens in Oxfordshire.
Airbus is offering small and medium-sized businesses access to laboratories and testing facilities.
The news comes as the biggest space industry event ever held in the country, Space-Comm Expo Scotland, gets underway.
BAE Systems says the satellite cluster can monitor threats and protect the UK and its allies.
The facility near Gloucester is now open after donations totalling £8m.
Sir Keir Starmer assures MP Olly Glover that he wants to retain the expertise at the site.
Britain's space agency is set to be scrapped - a scientist fears the UK space sector could fall behind as a result
Glasgow researcher is awarded a patent for a system to carry out construction on-demand on a space flight.
