Northern Space and Security

Our vision is the sustainable use of outer space, accessible to all of society. Ensuring this will bring huge social and economic value.

To enable our vision, we bring expertise in numerous areas, including:

• Observing, tracking and identifying objects in space
• Ability to distinguish between different objects such as active payloads, rocket bodies or debris
• Sensor operations and characterisation techniques
• Advanced orbital analysis
• Space policy and law
• satellite launch and licensing

What we do

We open up opportunities in outer space for businesses, government, academia and the public. We develop and coordinate international collaboration.

We provide ‘military grade expertise’ on the things that matter to the space sector. That includes governments, military, industry and academia.

We bring unprecedented Space Situational Awareness expertise and utilise such skills to raise awareness, competence and standards amongst operators in outer space.

We support the launch, tracking, monitoring, and management of objects in space.

We improve spaceflight safety by providing high quality, accurate services such as conjunction analysis, fragmentation assessment and on-orbit servicing support.

Experts in satellite tracking

Safety is key to your mission success and key to sustainability of space operations longer term. The sector and industry must maintain genuine and well-founded trust akin to that of air transport. We support operators and stakeholders in space to ensure this.

Our experts support safety throughout the launch, tracking, maintenance and end-of-life of stages for satellites and other objects in space.

In order to ensure safety, we support the creation of a modern regulatory environment for the management of this activity, along with the training of the operators in business, the specialists in defence, the newly appointed regulators and the researchers in academia.

We improve spaceflight safety by providing high quality, accurate services such as conjunction analysis, fragmentation assessment and on-orbit servicing support.

Who we work with

Space is a collaboration between government, academia, and private enterprise, where we have strong working relationships across each of these areas. We provide the unprecedented knowledge and are developing physical infrastructure that allows all to access and benefit from the opportunities in space. We help to coordinate these relationships and ensure space opportunities are accessible and successful.

Safety in flight

The more we know, the more we can manage. Bringing Royal Air Force and civilian experience of tracking, characterising and understanding objects in space, we are known for our ability to provide advice and support you can rely upon.

We are developing the most comprehensive space tracking and surveillance centre ever created in the UK, which will be available to our clients and partners.

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