Our founding story
In 2015, a WorldView satellite took an image that identified and led to the rescue of thousands of enslaved people onboard illegal fishing ships off of the coast of Papua New Guinea. Over 2000 people, some of whom had been enslaved for decades, came back home because of 1 satellite image.
We knew that ULEO can provide even better insight at 1/100th of the cost, making an even bigger positive impact on society. This was the moment when we decided to quit everything and dedicate ourselves to make low altitudes work for everyone.
Our Mission
Order of magnitude reduction in space mission cost at dramatically better performance.
A TEAM WITH PASSION AND A DEEP AREA of EXPERTISE
We have a cumulative 50+ years of experience in ULEO, spacecraft systems engineering, air-breathing electric propulsion, electric propulsion and vacuum systems which allows us to build and test high-quality satellite subsystems at an unprecedented rate.
Propulsion testing facility
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Testing chamber that recreates similar pressure as satellites experience at ULEO.
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One of the challenges of testing atmosphere-breathing propulsion is recreation of highly collimated atmospheric flow which is representative of the low orbit composition. In our facilities we developed two methods of recreating ULEO atmospheric flow that allows us to characterise our propulsion performance.
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We’ve automated our vacuum chamber as well as our power supplies to enable very fast and reliable experiments, accelerating our satellite development process.
A Place to make a significant impact on the world.
Work on the cutting-edge satellite technology in a collaborative and challenging environment.
Our laboratory
Unit 11, Southview Park, Marsack Street, Reading, RG4 5AF, United Kingdom