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Umbilical Design was founded in 2001, and since its inception has worked with NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) on design for the space industry. Umbilical Design has also been successful in showing how design, technology and material from the space industry can be transferred to Swedish enterprise and society.

Umbilical Design is one of thirteen European companies that the ESA has designated as Space Brokers. Umbilical Design's assignment from the ESA is to oversee the transfer of technology from the space sector to Swedish industry with the overarching objective to stimulate business opportunities by exploiting the materials knowledge, methods and approaches of the space sector.

The term "umbilical" is used in astronautics to describe whatever links one object or system to another, such as the lifeline connecting an astronaut performing an EVA with her spacecraft.

Umbilical Design operates in three fields: space, extreme environments and household products.