The UK Space Agency International Partnership Space Program (IPSP) is funding a study into the socioeconomic impacts of space weather and the case for better monitoring of the changing environment of outer space. This work is in collaboration between UKSA, the UK Met Office, Imperial College London, RAL Space, Airbus, the South African National Space Agency (SANSA) and University College London Mullard Space Science Lab and Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction.