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UK Space Conference 2025 in Manchester
UK Space Conference visited Manchester in 2025, gathering astronauts, explorers, innovators, students, and politicians together at a pivotal moment for the UK space sector.
Space is critical
With more space businesses than any country outside America, the UK punches above our weight on critical issues like space technology, regulation, and sustainability.
We collaborated with industry leaders on a thought leadership campaign to drive almost 2,000 delegate sales – the biggest UK Space Conference audience ever - while our sponsorship experts secured 121 sponsors and exhibitors.
Unleashing inspiration
Space technology, like GPS and low-Earth-orbit imaging, is now officially critical national infrastructure, and this event was a chance to get the word out about rapidly growing opportunities in the sector.
Emerging sector voices joined established prime aerospace players on stage under the theme: Space for Growth.
We hosted a live recording of one of the world’s biggest science podcasts ‘The Supermassive Podcast’, with astronauts John McFall, Tim Peake, and Meganne Christian.
Next generation
Part of our objective was to inspire, and the visual creative platform featured a ‘gigamoon’ image, captured by world famous astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy.
The Behold the Sun installation showed our star in all its roiling glory - looping real visual data from the NASA Solar Observatory. Hanging in space, it formed a dramatic backdrop as hundreds of local schoolchildren met real life astronauts and learned about careers in STEM.
Meanwhile, our writer in residence Jeremy Pak Nelson connected ideas, voices, and perspectives across the event, penning evocative poems that captured the passion and imagination of the audience.
Space for sustainability
UK Space Conference was served almost exclusively by local suppliers, with build material strictly reuseable or recyclable, including lanyards, and digital rather than printed collateral.
UK Space Agency agreed to get rid of exhibition carpet for the first time ever, giving the event a unique ambience, and immediately saving five tonnes of carbon.
We’ll wait for the TRACE carbon benchmarking report – but we predict it will be the most sustainable UK Space Conference in our decade-plus of delivering the event.
