At the heart of UK efforts to explore and benefit from space, the UK Space Agency is responsible for ensuring the UK retains and grows its strategic capability in space systems, technologies, science and applications. With its support, the UK space sector continues to grow rapidly, employing around 42,000 people and generating an income of £14.8 billion each year.

The UK Space Agency is working with industry and academia to stimulate an even stronger position in global space markets, while using the power of space to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers – all as part of the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy. And as new technologies are making space more accessible, the UK is seizing the significant opportunity to play a major role in commercial small satellite launch and sub-orbital spaceflight from spaceports across the country.

The UK Space Agency is an active member of the international space community, with an annual £300m investment in the European Space Agency and through its innovative International Partnership Programme, which is using space expertise and technology to tackle global challenges. It supports UK universities in conducting cutting-edge space research and astronomy, while funding exploration missions that are putting the UK space community at the forefront of space science.

Airbus is Europe’s largest and most innovative defence and space company. We create innovative, effective space and defence solutions and services for our customers, driving our industry forward. Airbus generates revenues of around €11 billion per year and employs approx. 32,000 employees, Airbus Defence and Space is one of the world’s largest space companies and one of the top 10 defence companies globally.

Airbus Defence and Space develops and engineers cutting-edge and peerlessly reliable products in the field of defence and space. The three business lines consist of military aircraft, space systems, and communications, intelligence and security. Military aircraft is responsible for fighter aircraft, airlifters, aerial refuelling tankers and airborne warfare systems. Space systems focuses on space exploration, Earth observation, intelligence systems, network and tactical systems and informative solutions. While communications, intelligence and security plays a key role in secure communications and cyber security.

In the UK Airbus space is a world leading centre for telecommunication satellites, including direct to home broadcast satellites, secure communication satellites, as well as Earth observation and science spacecraft. The company is also home to the European Space Agency’s ExoMars rover mission, due to launch in 2020.

Pioneering the future together.

The Satellite Applications Catapult is a unique technology and innovation company, boosting UK productivity by helping organisations harness the power of satellite based services. We work with businesses of all sizes to realise their potential from space infrastructure and its applications and bring new services to market. By connecting industry and academia we get new research off the ground and into the market more quickly. The Satellite Applications Catapult is one of 10 Catapults, established to transform the UK’s capability for innovation in specific areas and to help drive future economic growth. We help organisations make use of, and benefit from, satellite technologies, and bring together multi-disciplinary teams to generate ideas and solutions in an open innovation environment.

Our aim is to support UK industry by accelerating the growth of satellite applications and to contribute to capturing a 10% share of the global space market predicted by 2030.

Cornwall is developing a disruptive space economy, offering solutions in the design, build, launch and tracking of satellites. With Cornwall and Virgin Orbit partnering to deliver a horizontal launch at Spaceport Cornwall by 2020, the development of a capable, safe launch environment is well underway. The world’s largest satellite earth receiving station, Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd, offers a communications gateway into space and is the mission control partner for Spaceport Cornwall. These ground-breaking space assets are lowering the cost of accessing space, allowing businesses to realise the potential of their technologies.

Cornwall is extending a welcome to businesses who can play their part in developing the south west’s space sector. Cornwall are fuelling this by offering dedicated support to businesses looking to expand into the region, and who want to take advantage of R&D funding and business collaboration opportunities.

To find out more about Cornwall’s unique space offer and how your business could benefit, contact james@aerospacecornwall.co.uk.

Dstl delivers high-impact S&T for the UK's defence, security and prosperity. DSTL works to get the maximum impact from our S&T portfolio. They provide a range of specialist S&T services; doing work that has to be done within Government. They provide expert and impartial advice, analysis and assurance to MOD and other customers. They integrate their work with contributions from industry, academia, other parts of Government and our allies.

They have – and ensure that – the required capabilities are available now and will be in the future. This means DSTL have to have the right people, relationships, infrastructures and knowledge to practise. DSTL work across Government and with industry, academia and our allies to achieve this. The Dstl Space S&T Programme seeks to exploit the full potential of space for UK Defence and Security. The programme seeks to identify, design, and develop innovative and resilient Space concepts and technologies, collaborating both nationally and internationally, to enhance MOD understanding of the military potential of Space. With these important partnerships, the UK is better able to respond to future opportunities and threats, with an enhanced and affordable defence and security Space capability

The European Space Agency (ESA) provides Europe’s gateway to space. ESA is an intergovernmental organisation, created in 1975, with the mission to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space delivers benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world. ESA has 22 Member States: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Slovenia is an Associate Member. ESA has established formal cooperation with six Member States of the EU. Canada takes part in some ESA programmes under a Cooperation Agreement. By coordinating the financial and intellectual resources of its members, ESA can undertake programmes and activities far beyond the scope of any single European country. It is working in particular with the EU on implementing the Galileo and Copernicus programmes as well as with Eumetsat for the development of meteorological missions.

ESA develops the launchers, spacecraft and ground facilities needed to keep Europe at the forefront of global space activities.

Today, it develops and launches satellites for Earth observation, navigation, telecommunications and astronomy, sends probes to the far reaches of the Solar System and cooperates in the human exploration of space. ESA also has a strong applications programme developing services in Earth observation, navigation and telecommunications. Its business incubation centres form the largest network of space-related incubators in the world.

Learn more about ESA at www.esa.int.

Reaction Engines Limited (‘Reaction Engines’) is a privately held company based in Culham, Oxfordshire, UK. It employs over 200 staff across its sites in the UK and US. Reaction Engines develops the technologies needed for an advanced combined cycle air-breathing rocket engine class called SABRE (Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine), a leading contender for the next generation of hypersonic flight and space access vehicles.

Central to the SABRE design is the ultra-lightweight heat exchangers (precooler) Reaction Engines has developed, which stop engine components overheating at high flight speeds. These are capable of cooling airstreams from over 1,000°C to ambient temperature in less than 1/20th of a second with world leading compactness and low weight.

Reaction Engines’ proprietary heat exchanger technology has a wide range of potential commercial applications and the ability to revolutionise the approach to thermal management across a range of industries; from aerospace to motorsport, industrial processes, and the oil and gas industry.

SCISYS is a multinational company, employing over 650 people from all over the world. They have over 38 years' experience in delivering integrated software solutions, high-quality products for satellites and control centres as well as offering engineering support. Their customers range from start-ups and industry-leading companies to established institutions, academia and other government agencies. These include the European Space Agency, Airbus, OneWeb, Sky and Space Global, Environment Agency, Welsh Government and DEFRA.

SCISYS see the benefits of applying and transferring Space technologies for commercial use in other domains. Their Space derived robotics technology has transformed the way businesses inspect and survey hazardous environments, using machine learning and A.I. They also use our space domain expertise to deliver unique information and insights from Earth Observation (EO) satellites to a variety of users across a wide range of sectors. Make your vision achievable by relying on their expertise and software solutions.

Drawing on over 40 years of experience and a unique combination of skills, expertise and cultures, Thales Alenia Space delivers cost-effective solutions for telecommunications, navigation, Earth observation, environmental management, exploration, science and orbital infrastructures. Governments and private industry alike count on Thales Alenia Space to design satellite-based systems that provide anytime, anywhere connections and positioning, monitor our planet, enhance management of its resources, and explore our Solar System and beyond.

In the UK, Thales Alenia Space has space engineering facilities in Bristol, Harwell and Belfast and provides the design, assembly, integration and testing for satellite propulsion systems and satellite subsystems and undertakes system design studies whilst advancing its capabilities as a prime contractor in the UK for major space missions.

Thales Alenia Space sees space as a new horizon, helping to build a better, more sustainable life on Earth. A joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), Thales Alenia Space also teams up with Telespazio to form the parent companies’ Space Alliance, which offers a complete range of services. Thales Alenia Space posted consolidated revenues of about 2.5 billion euros in 2018 and has around 8,000 employees in nine countries.

Aircraft Materials UK aim to be the number one independent global provider of specialist alloy supply chain solutions, delivering unparalleled levels of technical excellence, logistics expertise and above all, outstanding customer service.

From their beginnings in 2001, they have grown to be the trusted partner of many prestigious manufacturing companies across a wide spectrum of industries including aerospace, defence, power generation, high-end electronics and, of course, space. They remain a family-run AS9120-approved stockholder, carrying a wide range of alloys including Aluminium Alloys, Stainless and Alloy Steels, Nickel and High Temperature Alloy, and Titanium in many forms and sizes to all aerospace and commercial specifications. Supplying to over 70 countries, they are also experts in global logistics, ensuring fast, secure delivery to anywhere in the world.

Aircraft Materials UK – Your Single Source Metal Specialists.

Astroscale is the first commercial company worldwide proposing to aid in the removal of orbital debris. Just as humankind has polluted the oceans, air and land, they have similarly left their mark in Earth’s orbit, leaving defunct satellites and spent rockets in space that increase the threat to current and future orbital activities. Astroscale was founded in 2013 by an IT entrepreneur, Nobu Okada, who proposed using a start-up mentality to address the business of orbital debris mitigation.

Astroscale now employs over 70 staff internationally. Their team is driven by the ambition to make the orbital environment safe for future space activities and continue to provide vital satellite data and technology that improve lives. Astroscale do this through two programmes; the provision of an End-of-Life (EOL) service for new and existing commercial operators launching large constellations into low Earth orbit, and Active Debris Removal (ADR) service to remove existing defunct satellites and rocket bodies orbiting the Earth.

BMT offer design solutions, asset management, programme delivery and technology services to customers in the defence, security, transport, energy and infrastructure markets. Their team tackle the most complex engineering and programme challenges, blending capabilities from the entire spectrum of engineering disciplines to deliver enduring and value-adding benefits. They can adopt agile practices to rapidly tailor solutions to meet customers’ needs.

With over thirty years of industry experience, and a long-term commitment to research and innovation, BMT solve the problems of today and shape the ideas of tomorrow. If you are seeking clarity from complexity, BMT are here to help.

Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world. Operating across the globe, CGI delivers end-to-end capabilities, from IT and business consulting to systems integration, outsourcing services and intellectual property solutions. CGI has a reputation for delivering secure, mission-critical, end-to-end information solutions and technical excellence for our Space, Defence and Intelligence clients.

CGI delivers systems from satellite communications, navigation and operations, to space enabled applications. CGI brings expertise in multiple IT disciplines including emerging technologies, and ideas from commercial and Government solutions to its clients to solve complex technical challenges.

Learn More – www.cgi-group.co.uk/en-gb/space

Charcroft Electronics are an established UK-based supplier to the Space sector, offering a wide range of EEE components; Passive, Active, Protection, Sensors and Electro-mechanical solutions from Franchised manufacturers with many years of Space-heritage.

Their Product Specialists are able to provide assistance in component selection at every stage of development, from BB to FM, selecting from the range of available quality levels; from Automotive-grades considered for High-Altitude Pseudo Satellites & LEO Nano/Cube satellites, to components on the EPPL, up to full ESCC-QPL or the relevant MIL-PRF qualification for the extended mission length of MEO/GEO satellites, rovers & deep-space missions. They also provide advice on the available screening options.

Charcroft will be joined by AEM, Inc. - a high reliability component solutions provider, and Kemet - a leading global supplier of electronic components, on stand C3, where they will be presenting their full range of Space approved products. For product demonstrations, information and technical support, visit them on stand C3.

ExoAnalytic Solutions is the world's leading provider of high-altitude space situational awareness (SSA) data products and services. With a network of over 300 telescopes, ExoAnalytic Solutions produces vast amounts of high-quality, real-time correlated observations of man-made satellites and debris. The ExoAnalytic Global Telescope Network (EGTN) currently consists of 30+ observatories on five continents (Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America) and Hawaii. Headquartered in Foothill Ranch, CA, ExoAnalytic Solutions is a technology and innovation leader in missile defence, complex systems modelling and simulation, and space situational awareness.

Founded in 1984, GMV is a privately owned international technological business group. GMV operates in very diverse sectors: Aeronautics, Banking and Finances, Space, Defence, Health, Security, Transportation, Telecommunications, and Information Technology for Public Administration and large corporations.

In the Space market, GMV provides products, services and solutions to space agencies, satellite operators, satellite manufacturers and final users. GMV portfolio includes: space segment subsystems (Mission analysis, guidance navigation and control, robotics, satellite and mission simulators and on-board SW), satellite navigation systems (Algorithms, processing facilities, precise positioning, GNSS receivers, GNSS applications and tools), ground segments (Ground control systems, payload data segment, science operations centres, telecom payload management, flight dynamics systems, mission planning and ground Segment and stations Monitoring systems), and space applications for different community sectors

Interface Force Measurements are specialist in Force, Multi Axis, Torque and Pressure measurement solutions with a strong belief in offering the best quality sensors possible. This belief is backed by our range of high quality, high accuracy force, torque, pressure sensors and systems from some of the world’s leading manufacturers.

Our product range includes;

• Single & multi axis force sensors for fatigue, wind tunnel, engine test stand and multi axis control stick testing
• Flight and space qualified pressure transmitters for propulsion, engine stand and oxygen systems test and monitoring
• Pressure Mapping systems for high speed, dynamic and impact testing

Lockheed Martin UK is the UK-based arm of Lockheed Martin Corporation and has operated in the country for nearly 80 years. Headquartered in London, we employ approximately 2,000 people at more than 20 sites across the country.

From mail sorting technology to helping build the UK’s first commercial spaceport, their innovations and partnerships help solve some of the world’s most complex challenges, contributing to the UK’s defence, security and prosperity.

In the Space sector, Lockheed Martin helps the future arrive across Civil and Military space, Mission Solutions, Special Programmes and Strategic and Missile Defence.

The National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) has world-class capabilities in processing and analysing vast quantities of satellite data generated to monitor and understand global/regional environmental change. Earth observation scientists and data assimilation experts model the Earth system to address societal and environmental challenges.

Unique in Europe, NCEO works with public sector agencies and government to improve understanding of environmental conditions. NCEO’s internationally recognised science covers a broad range of environmental science fields. Four principal focal points are: global and regional carbon cycles with their complex linkages; terrestrial-atmosphere connectivity, from biospheres of forests and deltas to anthropogenic influences of agriculture and urbanisation; physical energy and water exchanges in the Earth system; and observations of global climate change.

NCEO’s work improves understanding, prediction and mitigation of natural hazards. And they provide the scientific rationale for new satellite missions, working with space agencies, engineers and industry to design next generation sensors.

Northern Space and Security Limited is an innovative UK based Space Situational Awareness and Space Surveillance and Tracking specialist, providing dedicated outer space vision and support to industry, academia and government. Its military-grade space tracking understanding has been developed through current space operations, planning and training experience. The unique, specialist team possesses unprecedented knowledge and understanding developing bespoke orbital analysis for numerous areas of space operations and provides space domain awareness, supporting current and future satellite operator requirements. NORSS specialises in democratizing “data of space” for R&D with a passion for the space environment, dedicated to enabling sustainable space operations.

Northrop Grumman is the world's leading producer of titanium propellant tanks used in government, scientific and commercial satellites, launch vehicles, and space explorers. Their tanks have been a part of nearly every large U.S. launch vehicle and geosynchronous earth-orbiting satellite from the inception of the space age.

Northrop Grumman propellant tanks have landed on Mars, Venus and the Moon, and have visited every planet in the solar system. They have been an integral part of nearly every major space-exploration vehicle, including Cassini, Mariner, Pioneer, and Voyager. Launch vehicles with Northrop Grumman tanks have included Delta III and Delta IV, the space shuttle and the entire Atlas family of vehicles.

Northrop Grumman’s capabilities include design, manufacture, and testing of propellant tanks, pressurant tanks, motor cases, and spinner tanks. Additional propellant tank expertise includes design, manufacture, and testing of propellant management devices (PMD) and elastomeric diaphragms.

Space science research at The Open University is at the cutting edge of instrument development for planetary science, space science and astronomy missions. We work closely with the UK Space Agency (UKSA), the European Space Agency (ESA) and other national space agencies, universities, research centres and industry around the world to develop instrumentation and concepts for leading-edge space science missions. Our researchers also specialise in adapting this spaceflight technology expertise to industrial and commercial challenges on the ground.  The Open University is also actively involved in the SPace Academic Network (SPAN), with Professor Andrew Holland chairing the organisation that aims to provide a single voice for academics across a broad range of disciplines in space research.

Open University space science and instrumentation researchers contribute to a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate taught and research degrees available for study on a full-time or part-time basis.

A leading European provider of Workforce Solutions Services and Technologies to demanding clients in high-tech, high-reliability, and critical sectors such as Space, Defence and Security since 1994.

Their Workforce Solutions Services offer unique value to (inter)national organisations, as well as space, defence and security concerned companies. They have a rich and diversified Workforce Solutions Service portfolio that flexibly meets their clients’ needs for temporary and long-term support consultants (with or without Security Clearance) and services offered on Work Package and Project basis.

Located in the heart of the UK, Space Park Leicester will be a global hub for space and space-enabled industry. Building on the University of Leicester’s international reputation for space science and innovation, it will be a world-leading centre for the translation of space research and Earth Observation (EO) data into commercial applications and services for businesses, researchers and academia.

Space Park Leicester complements other UK capabilities, and provides an important element of a cohesive national infrastructure. Their unique selling points include: their research and innovation breadth; nearly-60 years of space exploration, working with the space industry; the focus on volume production of low-cost satellites; acting as host to the National Centre for Earth Observation; supporting National skills development.

Over 30 years of space innovation an innovative approach to the design, build, launch and operation of satellites, has propelled Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) to the forefront of the small satellite industry. SSTL is committed to changing the economics of space and we continually push the boundaries of the possible, exploiting advances in technologies, challenging conventions, and bringing affordable space exploration to our customers.

SSTL delivers complete mission solutions for remote sensing, science, navigation and telecommunications as well as supplying avionics suites, and ground infrastructure.

Providing key enabling technologies for space, our UK capabilities and heritage span custom CCD, infrared, COTS+ and CMOS imaging sensors and sub-systems used for Earth observation and the largest space telescopes, through to space-based communications systems for OneWeb. With an eye always to the future we are leading, the UK, in the commercialisation of quantum technologies for space.

Teledyne companies also develop systems and components for the ISS and spacecraft that visit distant planets and asteroids. Teledyne’s UK space capabilities include Teledyne e2v and Teledyne Defence & Space.

Operating internationally within the Small Satellite market,  AAC Clyde Space specialise in the provision of advanced spacecraft, mission services, and reliable subsystems. We provide market-leading space solutions and services for government, commercial, and educational organisations. We offer specialist expertise and experience in delivering a wide range of commercially focused satellite solutions, including Space as a Service; a complete end-to-end mission service providing customers everything from constellation design to satellite operations. Our solutions have an impressive mission heritage, making AAC Clyde Space the market leading provider of New Space technologies and services that push the boundaries of Small Satellite capabilities.

Customers include; the UKSA, SNSA, ESA, NASA, AFRL, JAXA, Kepler Communications, NSLComm, Orbcomm, ALE, Satellogic, Airbus, DLR, and LuxSpace as well as leading industrial groups now using our aerospace compliant devices in innovative products and applications such as York Space and OHB.

AdaCore has a long history of providing tools and expertise to the Space industry, helping developers build mission critical applications that extend to the farthest reaches of human exploration. Their tools can be used to meet verification objectives including coding standard compliance, code accuracy (prevention of errors such as buffer overrun, integer overflow, and references to uninitialized variables), and structural coverage analysis up to MC/DC.

AdaCore has extensive experience helping their aerospace customers meet the European Space standards ECSS-E-ST-40C and ECSS-Q-ST-80C, and has already qualified versions of the run-time libraries.

All products come with expert and timely support provided by the developers themselves. For further information, contact us at info@adacore.com.

Bright Ascension are space software specialists offering products and services addressing the complete range of upstream software needs.

Our flagship Flight Software Development kit has off-the-shelf support for a wide range of platforms and subsystems from a broad range of vendors. The unique modular technology makes key functions portable, enabling vendor-independence and facilitating development, testing and integration.

Bright Ascension's intuitive Mission Control Software seamlessly integrates with our flight software permitting rapid configuration and scalability to constellation operations. The focus on operability and automation gets more from space systems. System modularity permits interaction with alternative platforms, eliminating vendor lock-in and increasing the efficiency and competitiveness of space services.

Our software has been in operational use since 2014, and we have carried out R&D activities for organisations of all sizes, from creating custom software to delivering full turn-key mission software.

Deimos Space UK is a wholly owned subsidiary of Elecnor Deimos created in 2013 to address the UK and overseas markets for space systems, services and applications. Deimos UK is located on the Harwell campus and offers expertise in these areas:

• Mission/Flight Engineering
• Ground Segment Systems
• Global Navigation Satellite Systems
• Satellite Applications
• Space Situational Awareness

The Space Zone at the Farnborough International Airshow 2020 presents the perfect opportunity to meet with the international space community in a form that is now recognised as one of the world’s leading space features. Building on the success of 2018, the space zone has increased in size to offer more opportunities and more ways to do business.

The Farnborough International Airshow will run from 20 – 24 July 2020. Join the leaders in space innovation and enquire about participation options today.

Glasgow City Innovation District is a hub for entrepreneurship, innovation and collaboration, building on Scotland’s rich tradition of scientific excellence and industrial ingenuity.
A key strategy for the district is to support development of technologies and services that advance our exploration, exploitation, and understanding of space, and to link across sectors to develop new solutions.
The District is the result of a successful partnership between Glasgow City Council, the University of Strathclyde, Scottish Enterprise, Glasgow Chamber of Commerce and Entrepreneurial Scotland, and brings together ambitious, forward-thinking people focused on tackling societal and global challenges and driving inclusive economic growth.

Hamamatsu Photonics is a world-leading manufacturer of optoelectronic components and systems. The Company’s corporate philosophy stresses the advancement of photonics through extensive research and yields products that are regarded as state-of-the-art.

Hamamatsu have established themselves in the space technology sector; having equipped the International Space Station with various high performance detectors.

HE Space Operations is based in Noordwijk (HE Space Operations BV, the Netherlands), Bremen and Darmstadt (HE Space Operations GmbH, Germany) and Houston (HE Space Inc, USA). For over 35 years, the company has been providing engineers, scientists and other specialists to customers such as the European Space Agency, Airbus Defense and Space, ArianeGroup, Eumetsat and DLR GfR. HE Space brings together experts and projects and invests in the best personnel so that space companies of all sizes can successfully implement their programmes. Customers take care of the missions - HE Space takes care of the people.

Since its inception, the company's strategic focus has been solely on the space sector. Its expertise is unrivaled, because HE Space solves the human resources challenges of the space industry on a daily basis. When it comes to hiring the right people for technology and development, planning and implementation, control and testing, integration and documentation, and much more, HE Space is the right partner.

HUBER+SUHNER offers customers around the globe outstanding products and services for their electrical and optical connectivity needs. We focus on combining products from the three technologies of Radio Frequency, Fiber Optics and Low Frequency to create solutions for Communication, Transportation and Industrial. And the balanced diversity of our 3x3 strategy gives us long-term financial stability.

HUBER+SUHNER products deliver high performance, quality, reliability and a long service life – even under the toughest of conditions. The company’s global production network, combined with group companies and agencies, ensures that HUBER+SUHNER maintains a close relationship with its customers in over 60 countries.

In-Space Missions (UK) brings together experience and innovation to create space businesses through collaboration and in-orbit demonstration. It develops new space and ‘newspace’ missions and provides consultancy and procurement support to the space sector.

In-Space operates globally and has collaborated with or supported over 25 newspace, traditional space, institutional, financial, academic and government organisations since its inception in 2015. In-Space provides Mission as a Service IOD capability (Faraday-1, launch Q2 2019), is developing an AR/VR immersive real-time video from space service (launch 2020), and has developed a number of platform technology products.

In-Space Missions – Your Partners in Space

KISPE: Delivering trusted, bespoke services that create value for partners KISPE is a specialist technology group, established to accelerate the development and introduction of innovative solutions, knowledge and consultancy in the fields of space systems, telecommunications and electronics.

By providing timely, targeted, tailored support and expertise at all stages of the programmatic lifecycle, KISPE enables partners to make critical progress on current and urgent needs as well as build momentum to achieve longer-term objectives.

Working as consultants, partners, and as embedded team members, KISPE provides specialised services that allows clients to maintain competitiveness and responsiveness to their own end customers.

Livewire Digital Ltd. has over 25 years’ experience implementing communications protocols. To meet the 5G objectives of a seamless transition between satellite and terrestrial services, Livewire Digital has designed RazorLink® Smart Networking technology.

RazorLink® is cross platform Software Defined Networking offering a transparent and comprehensive solution to IP Mobility, Bonding, Acceleration, Resilience, Prioritisation, Cost Control and Security. RazorLink® can be installed on a laptop, incorporated into a smartphone app, embedded in firmware or deployed like a router. The Cloud model provides a centrally managed scalable architecture for delivering Hybrid Communications as a Service to key markets like Emergency Services.

Experts in the economics of space. We’re a leading independent economics and policy consultancy with a dedicated team of economists specialised in the space sector. Since 2008, we have pioneered innovative analytical techniques to provide trusted economic advice to decision-makers across the space industry, space agencies (UK Space Agency, GSA, ESA) and international governments. We offer expertise in: market quantification (e.g. Size and Health of the UK Space Industry); business cases; value-for-money; return on investment; cost-benefit analysis; business cases; evaluation. Our analyses cover the full value chain from manufacturing and launch to applications within GNSS, Earth Observation, Telecommunications, and Science.

MDA has been a trusted provider of industry-leading radar satellite systems and imagery, ground systems, space robotics and sensors, satellite antennas, electronics and payloads, surveillance and intelligence solutions, and defence systems for customers in international government and commercial sectors for five decades.

The company’s breadth of expertise, and long history of innovative industrial firsts has made it the go-to source for advanced technology and mission-critical solutions for exploring space, and monitoring and understanding land and maritime change and activity anywhere on Earth.

NanoAvionics is a nanosatellite mission integrator delivering new generation satellite buses and propulsion systems. Their flagship multi-purpose M6P is the first preconfigured nano-satellite Bus in the sector, designed to serve emerging commercial space markets. The company’s efforts are focused on enabling critical satellite functions and optimizing their launch, hardware and operation costs - ranging from single missions to constellations.

With facilities in North America, UK and EU, NanoAvionics’ team consists of 80 driven and skillful employees: they have over fifty successful satellite missions and projects under their belt, and they keep counting. NanoAvionics is ISO 9001 certified.

Open Cosmos is revolutionising the way space technology is used and is at the forefront of the emerging new space industry. Our mission is to make space accessible to anyone, to help solve the world's biggest challenges. We do this by simplifying the process to get to space, while at the same time making it affordable and fast. We use standardised nanosatellite technology, in addition to our payload development and qualification software and hardware. We provide end-to-end space missions for customers around the world. We do the rocket science, so our customers can focus on results. Aim high, go beyond!

Orbital Micro Systems (OMS) specializes in the development and delivery of technology and data for space applications. With broad expertise in applied science, weather science and earth observation, instrumentation development, data science, space operations, and program delivery, OMS is positioned to deliver innovation to many areas of the aerospace sector. For more information about OMS, please visit www.orbitalmicro.com

The Royal Astronomical Society is the UK’s leading body for astronomers, space scientists and geophysicists. Their more than 4,000 members work in academia, industry, teaching, public engagement, journalism and other related occupations.

The Royal Astronomical Society support sciences, and scientists, through public policy advocacy, conferences, a grants scheme, scientific journals, a bi-monthly magazine, meeting spaces in central London, public engagement programmes, and a library of international importance.

In 2020 we celebrate our 200th anniversary, with special events planned in the UK and around the world. This is a perfect time to join us – come to our stand in the exhibition hall at the conference and sign up!

SatixFy designs next-generation satellite communication systems based on in-house developed chipsets. SatixFy’s advanced modems radically increase system performance and reduce the weight and power requirements of terminals, payloads and gateway equipment with full support of advanced standards, such as DVB-S2X.

The company delivers among others the industry’s smallest VSAT as well as Electronically Steered Multibeam Antennas (ESMA) for a variety of mobility applications and services such as Connected Car, IoT, consumer broadband, in-flight connectivity, communication payloads and more.

Skyrora are a launch vehicle development company based in Edinburgh, Scotland. They aim to cater for the growing demand to send small satellites into space. Skyrora use a combination of proven technology, inspired by Black Arrow and Skylark, alongside advanced manufacturing to create cost-effective vehicles that will launch from the UK. They are currently working through a sub-orbital test programme whilst conducting engine testing for our orbital vehicle.

Spectrum Technologies has been at the forefront of Laser wire processing technology for 30 years. Our main design and manufacturing facility is based in Bridgend, South Wales. We are also located in North America, India and China. We design and manufacture Laser Wire Markers and Laser Wire Strippers to the Aerospace, Automotive, Medical and Electronics market. Spectrum Technologies has an enviable client list including Airbus, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Bombardier, BAE Systems.

Our products include Nova™ UV laser wire marking systems, SIENNA™ laser wire stripping equipment and Nova MaX™ high performance wire and cable measure and cut systems.

If you are a UK SME looking to develop new products and services using space data or technologies, then the SPRINT programme can help you to accelerate your goals. SPace Research and Innovation Network for Technology (SPRINT) funds SME access to the resources, facilities and expertise of five of the leading space universities in the UK (Leicester, Surrey, Southampton, the Open University and Edinburgh) to support the development of your new commercial, space-enabled products and services. Visit us at A19 in the exhibition hall to find out more and see how your business could benefit from working with our SPRINT experts.

STAR-Dundee designs network and related data-handling technology for use on-board spacecraft, providing electronic test and development equipment and chip designs for spaceflight applications.

Their highly experienced engineers were instrumental in the development of SpaceWire, writing the standard with inputs from international spacecraft engineers. SpaceWire is now widely used on-board spacecraft with over 100 space missions using SpaceWire technology. Their engineers have led the research, technical development and standardisation of the next generation of SpaceWire technology, SpaceFibre, which is a substantial leap forward, offering much higher data rates, quality of service, FDIR, deterministic data delivery, low latency time-synchronisation and event signalling.

Telespazio VEGA UK (a Leonardo and Thales company) is an experienced consulting, technology, engineering, space operations and service development business. TPZV UK has built its first class reputation over the last 40 years by exploiting new technology developments in Earth Observation and Satellite Navigation & Communications to pioneer innovative services in space operations and geospatial data applications.

Thomas Keating Ltd has a 75 year history of design and manufacture of scientific instruments for astronomy, cosmology, weather forecasting and structural biology, as well as supporting the UK motor sport, aerospace and medical device industries.

Current customers include, ESA (European Space Agency), NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) as well as universities/government laboratories in the Far East, Europe and the Americas.

All under one roof - and using novel manufacturing technologies -  ‘Keatings’ in-house highly-skilled toolmakers, machinists and designers interacts both with clients as well as our customer-facing PhD-qualified project scientists.

TISICS develops lighter, faster production rate spacecraft tanks and structures with world leading metal composite and net-shape manufacture technologies. 

The work is currently focused on pressure vessels, propellant tanks and robotic arms. Light-weighting other structural parts for satellites, launchers or science missions could deliver 30% to 70% weight reduction, utilising aluminium and titanium based technology.

TISICS proprietary ceramic fibre reinforced titanium is stronger and stiffer than high strength steel. Fibre reinforced aluminium exceeds the strength and stiffness of titanium, delivering 40% lower density.

TISICS is ready to build Europe’s first industrial fibre-reinforced metal composite facility to deliver Space qualified parts.

Winslow has 30 years’ experience in the Specialist Design & Manufacture of Connectors, Integrated Circuit Adapters/Interposers, Test Contactor & Custom Test Sockets, Prototyping and Emulation Modules.

Their precision engineering service extends to processing a broad range of ferrous and non-ferrous metals and engineering plastics manufacturing a minimum order quantity of just one, whether a new design or the re-engineering of a legacy part.

Since the early 1990’s the experts at Winslow have successfully provided mission critical solutions for harsh environments, such as, Hubble Telescope Servicing Mission 1 and more recently a custom connector for the ESA Solar Orbiter Spice Instrument

World Space Week is an international celebration of Space and its contribution to the betterment of the humankind. In 1999 the UN General Assembly declared that World Space Week would be held each year from October 4-10, commemorating the 4th October 1957 launch of Sputnik 1 and the 10th October 1967 signing of the Treaty on the Exploration and Peaceful Use of Outer Space.  Numerous space education and outreach events are held by space agencies, aerospace companies, schools, planetariums, museums, and astronomy clubs around the world. The British Interplanetary Society coordinates all these events in the UK and looks forward to your thoughts and ideas. 

B2Space is the start-up that will democratise access to Space, by providing small and micro-satellites with a flexible, reliable, customised and low cost launch service to Low Earth Orbit.

Leveraging on its knowledge and expertise in high altitude operations, B2Space will become as well the reference company in near Space testing and operations, supporting the development of new products, systems and technologies.

CONFERS is an industry-led initiative that aims to leverage best practices from government and industry to research, develop, and publish non-binding, consensus-derived technical and operations standards for OOS and RPO. These standards would provide the foundation for a new commercial repertoire of robust space-based capabilities and a future in-space economy.

Attendees can visit CONFERS at www.satelliteconfers.org.

METRON A.E. Ltd. is an AS9100 accredited company for 'Additive Manufacturing of metallic components', mainly in titanium and its alloys.

METRON A.E. owns and operates an ARCAM EBM machine and is regarded as a lead user of that technology, with excellent success rate, countless unique / innovative solutions and products supplied to our customers.

With over ten years experience of designing parts for A. M. as well as manufacturing well over 4000 titanium parts over the last 4 years, we can assist any potential customer to realise their ambitions of taking advantage of this new technology.

The expertise of our highly qualified team range from metallurgy and special parameter creation for special purposes, to CAD design with FEA stress analysis for product optimisation.

The company is currently developing the process for γTiAl a high temperature capable material that is half the density of INCONEL.

Thermal engineering, particularly in the space industry, is the expertise of Nitrexo, a start-up company based in Ireland. The company provides engineering and consultancy services, as well as digital solutions, thermal analysis reports, and various space products, to its clients.

Nitrexo’s competence involves using ESATAN-TMS® for conducting thermal analyses on space systems and sub-systems prior to the implementation of the thermal design. This ensures that the device or product that undergoes analysis and testing will function effectively under certain space conditions.

Pixalytics Ltd is an independent Earth observation company specialising in satellite remote sensing. We combine cutting edge scientific knowledge with satellite data to offer vegetation, agriculture, water body mapping, land classification, coastal and marine products. Our services also include scientific consultancy, data management, training, research and development work.

Raptor Aerospace Ltd is built upon 30 years of sounding rocket experience to provide staff training, launch simulation, educational opportunities and test/research payload launch capabilities to the UK space industry. Raptor are the first British company to be offering commercial sub-orbital launch services from UK space-ports.

Alden Legal are a thought-leading professional advisory firm for the space, satellite and communications sector, with significant experience in providing policy and legal advice (including commercial contracts, IP, corporate and general finance) and all forms of regulatory and licensing advice. We advise on complex areas such as the regulatory and commercial aspects of innovative technology, including in-orbit servicing, large constellations, aeronautical services and new applications. We also cover all forms of licensing, spectrum, liability, insurance and financial issues. We are often involved in the drafting of national space and communication laws, launch and spectrum regulations.

ALTER TECHNOLOGY GROUP is a quality driven company providing procurement, engineering and test services for electronic components and systems, within the space and harsh environment markets.  OPTOCAP provides optoelectronics, microelectronics and MEMS packaging design and assembly services.

Craft Prospect provides space mission architecture and delivery products and services for CubeSat and small satellite missions, to maximise their operational efficiency and allowing mission primes to focus on what’s important to them: delivery of downstream services.  Founded in 2017, our growing team of experienced engineers have worked with customers including ESA, established industry and start-ups supporting missions at all stages in the lifecycle from concept through to in-orbit operations and scale-up.  Our domain knowledge of spacecraft supplier systems, model based systems methodology, interdisciplinary skills base, and system agnostic approach allows valued insights into the solution architecture.  Our products using onboard autonomy and machine learning can further ensure the mission prime is able to maximise the utility of the space asset and the value returned.  Craft Prospect is currently developing quantum space missions for CubeSats in partnership with major UK stakeholders, with a first in-orbit demonstration of the Responsive Operations for Key Services mission planned in 2021.

Kayser Space develops systems supporting microgravity investigations, in cooperation with several research institutions. The company is currently working on two payloads for the next UK mission on the ISS. Kayser Space is a partner of Kayser Italia and ESA in “Bioreactor Express”, an initiative for the commercialisation of the ISS.

LIFT ME OFF is a UK Space Start-up designing propulsion and robotic solutions for next-generation in-orbit mobility services.  Their technologies open up new opportunities in the fields of In-Orbit Transportation, Servicing, Manufacturing and Recovery.

NewSpace Systems Limited (NSS UK) is an advanced manufacturer of robust satellite sub-systems and components with facilities in both the United Kingdom and South Africa and resellers in 7 countries. Focused on providing customers with robust GNC products, on-board control systems and airborne delivery products, the NSS team utilises its 30 plus years of experience in the space industry to assist customers with their unique mission requirements. Additional services offered include technology commercialisation and contract manufacturing.

Committed to delivering on high-quality, NSS products are manufactured in ISO 14644-1, Class 7, certified cleanrooms by ESA accredited technicians who work according to the rigorous ECSS standards.

Octagon Studio is an award winning tech company specialising in providing high quality Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Mixed Reality (MR) products and services.
Our creative team passionately work with partners globally such as European Space Agency (ESA), BBC, Discovery, to provide the best possible solutions.

The Royal Aeronautical Society is a global membership organisation dedicated to the entire aerospace and aviation industry. We provide authoritative, evidence based and independent insight into complex subjects surrounding the future of the aerospace industry whilst providing our members with recognition, professional development opportunities and an influential platform to share knowledge

Here at Sandvik Osprey we manufacture and sell components made from a range of binary Aluminium Silicon alloys called Controlled Expansion (CE) Alloy. By changing the ratio of Silicon and Aluminium we can tune the CTE anywhere from 5 to 17 ppm/k.

Seradata produces SpaceTrak, the Space Industry's leading launch and satellite database. Delivered via a powerful website, SpaceTrak provides comprehensive, consistent, independent and authoritative information for every launch and satellite.

SpaceTrak guides the business decisions of over 85 organizations world-wide including manufacturers, space-agencies, launch providers, satellite operators and insurance companies.
 

SpaceTec Partners is an independent (100% European and privately owned) strategy consultancy specialised in Space and Space applications, with reckon track record in the Space sector. STP capabilities range from management consulting (strategy and business planning, user requirements and market analysis, policy making and impact assessment, technology road mapping, etc.), to market development and strategic communication, to innovation management and access to finance advisory services.

Spicule LTD have built upon 10+ years of data processing and open source software experience to help build data platforms for organisations including NASA JPL. Providing affordable, bespoke solutions to businesses within the Space industry, driving innovation within the field and providing unsurpassed solutions in the data storage and processing sectors.