British-built military satellite Titania has successfully launched and is in orbit, the Ministry of Defence announced on 7 November 2026, describing it as a new means of observing military activity on Earth from space. The launch was completed the previous month, according to the department. Titania is the second satellite in the UK's military constellation, following Tyche in October, and will be operated by UK Space Command under the ISTARI programme. Like Tyche, it weighs around 100kg and orbits Earth every ninety minutes at twenty-seven thousand kilometres per hour.

The MoD also said it is standing up Project Inaros, a trial of an advanced sensor network designed to monitor space from three sites: the UK, Australia and British facilities on Cyprus. The three ground-based neuromorphic sensors, developed by Optera with the National Security Strategic Investment Fund, could be developed into an early warning system for unusual or threatening activity near UK satellites.

Titania was designed and built in Hampshire by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory and BAE Systems under a £9.5 million contract, and is to be followed by Juno, with SSTL, and Oberon, with Airbus Defence and Space. The department linked the work to more than £3 billion committed for space capabilities over the next four years under the Defence Investment Plan.