Cornwall Space Cluster opens PR Launchpad to its members
The Cornwall Space Cluster has launched a new £15,000 fund designed to give its member businesses access to professional PR and media support, many for the first time.
The PR & Media Support Launchpad is open to cluster members from now until April 2027, and is built specifically for smaller businesses without their own communications resource.
From contract wins and product launches to new hires and milestone moments, the Launchpad gives members a route to professional storytelling and media coverage they could not otherwise reach.
The Launchpad is being delivered by Halo, the international PR and communications agency specialising in space, AI, science, defence, and deep tech, which has been appointed as the cluster’s communications partner through to April 2027.
The launch comes as the UK government doubles down on regional space clusters as engines of national growth. Cornwall is explicitly identified in the UK’s 2025 Modern Industrial Strategy as one of the regional space ecosystems anchoring the country’s space economy, alongside Harwell and Scotland, and is one of fifteen UK space clusters now driving economic growth from Inverness to Cornwall and Northern Ireland to Suffolk.
Space is also one of four named pillars in Cornwall Council’s own Good Growth Plan 2024-2035.
The Launchpad is designed to make sure that growth story reaches well beyond the sector itself. Cluster members apply through a short online form. Halo scopes the work, agrees the hours with the cluster, and delivers the campaign – from press releases and media pitching through to video, social content, and coverage reporting.
Where a project needs more than the cluster funds, members can top up directly, with no minimum spend or retainer required.
Nathan Coe, Cornwall Space Cluster Lead, said: “This is exactly the kind of practical support the cluster should be offering. We’ve got brilliant businesses across Cornwall doing world-class work in space, and too many of them never get the recognition they deserve simply because PR feels out of reach.
The Launchpad changes that. It’s flexible, it’s fair, and it’s built around the reality of what our members actually need – when something matters, we want it told well.
National strategy now positions Cornwall as one of the UK’s most important regional space clusters; the job from here is to make sure the wider world hears about what our members are doing.
“Halo knows this sector, they know Cornwall, and they have a track record of getting global space organisations in front of the audiences that matter.”
Jess Ratty, CEO and Founder of Halo PR & Communications, added: “Working with the Cornwall Space Cluster for the next year is a real privilege, and I’m excited to have helped develop the Launchpad.
There are companies in this cluster delivering extraordinary technologies – solving problems most people will never know exist – and too often the story stops at the lab door.
The Launchpad means Cornish companies developing new tech have the same route to a national audience as the big players.
This is how clusters grow. We can’t wait to get started.”
The Launchpad is the first major initiative under the cluster’s relaunch this summer, which will also see a live recording of Haymarket Media Group’s space podcast The Kármán Line brought to Spaceport Cornwall in July, hosted by Dr Alice Bunn OBE, President of UKspace and incoming job-share Director of the UK Space Agency.
Cluster members can apply for the Launchpad via the dedicated form. Full details of how the Launchpad works are available on the Cornwall Space Cluster website.
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