The King later travelled to Harwell, where he officially opened the UK Space and Defence Gateway, a new hub designed to strengthen collaboration across the space and defence sectors.
He unveiled a sustainable plaque to mark the occasion at the Gateway, which sits at the heart of the Harwell Space Cluster.
The facility is aligned with the King’s Sustainable Markets Initiative’s Astra Carta, a framework launched when he was Prince of Wales to promote sustainability in the space sector.
During his visit, the King toured RAL Space, the UK’s National Space Laboratory, which supports work on climate monitoring, biodiversity and environmental resilience.
The Harwell Space Cluster is Europe’s largest concentration of space organisations, supporting more than 120 space firms and more than 330 defence and security organisations.
At the Gateway, he viewed demonstrations from leading space companies and the European Space Agency before meeting representatives from industry, government, academia and the investment community.