The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation and the British Interplanetary Society (BIS) are pleased to announce the Winners of the 2025 Sir Arthur Clarke Awards which were announced and presented at the Gala Dinner and Awards at the BIS’s 22nd Reinventing Space Conference at The Royal Aeronautical Society, 4 Hamilton Place, London, W1J 7BQ on Tuesday 28 October 2025.
The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation and the British Interplanetary Society (BIS) are pleased to announce the Winners of the 2025 Sir Arthur Clarke Awards which were announced and presented at the Gala Dinner and Awards at the BIS’s 22nd Reinventing Space Conference at The Royal Aeronautical Society, 4 Hamilton Place, London, W1J 7BQ on Tuesday 28 October 2025.Presented annually since 2005, ‘The Arthurs’ recognise and reward those individuals and teams that have made notable or outstanding achievements in, or contributions to, all space activities here in the UK and, through its Lifetime and International Awards, the rest of the world. Unlike many other awards, nominations can be made by the general public as well as the Nominations and Judging Panel.
The panel, of up to 50 key players from all areas of the Space sector and all levels of experience and seniority, selected the three finalists in each of the 9 Award Categories and, from those, chose the winner of each Award.
All Finalists were invited to attend the Dinner and Awards on 28th October, the Individual finalists with a partner or guest and the Team Finalists with up to three team representatives. With almost all the finalists in attendance and a couple joining online, it was a highly successful event.
The Winners of the 2025 Sir Arthur Clarke Awards are:-
1. Space Achievement – Industry/Project Team
· The Race2Space Team
For providing the UK Space sector with better-prepared employees through improved industry/academia knowledge transfer and practical hands-on design, manufacture and testing of rocket engines
2. Space Achievement – Industry/Project Individual
· Patrick Wood
For a highly successful 30+ year career in the aerospace industry, highlighted by his term as Programme Director for the SKYNET 5 programme and significant contributions to many other programmes whilst Senior Vice President of Integration at Airbus Space Systems.
3. Space Achievement – Academic Study/Research Team
· The Space AM LEVL Team
For the design of the auto-rotating Leading Edge Vortex Lift (LEVL) probes for the Venus Morning Star Mission in 2031. Due to their slow descent, the 30 probes will allow prolonged sampling of the atmosphere.
4. Space Achievement – Education and Outreach Team
· The Radio Society of Great Britain Team at Bletchley Park
For inspiring all generations about Amateur Satellites by providing a unique insight into the world of radio communications including displays of the work of Radio Amateurs in WW2.
5. Space Achievement – Education and Outreach Individual
· Dr Robert Watson
For his outstanding contribution to space education through the ‘Astrogazers Mission’, empowering Croydon High School to become the first all-girls school in the world to design, test, and prepare a CubeSat for launch.
6. Space Achievement – Student
· The Jovian-O Team
For, as a joint Universities of Surrey, Southampton and Portsmouth Team, designing, building and testing the Jovian-O sub-orbital Earth-observation payload and integrating it onto a Stellar Kinetics rocket for launch from the Etlaq Spaceport, Oman.
7. Space Achievement – Media, broadcast and written Team
· The ‘Mission Bake’ Team
For the ‘Mission Bake’ social media series created by Lucy Hallam and the National Space Centre team along with Dr Josh Smalley at the University of Leicester to teach space science stories to families and youth groups through space-themed baking challenges.
8. Lifetime Achievement
· Lord Martin Rees
For, as one of the world’s leading cosmologists, his contribution to the study of space and the universe, his 30 years as Astronomer Royal and his continued public engagement.
9. International Achievement
[Finalists and Awardees are selected by the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation Board]
· Dr Austin Mardon
For his contribution to science literacy among the public, for promoting disability inclusion in space exploration through pioneering research, advocacy, and global outreach initiatives and for finding 700 meteorites beyond the South Pole in Antarctica.
