Copernical Team
Bristol Spaceplanes Ltd
Bristol Spaceplanes is a British company dedicated to spaceplane design.
It was founded in 1991 to realise low-cost access to space. Its clients include ESA, and its work has been used to further NASA studies on reusable launch vehicles and space tourism. Bristol Spaceplanes' designs have been the subject of feasibility studies from ESA and the UK Department of Trade and Industry.
ESA Harwell Centre
The ESA's Centre in Harwell is a research centre located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. Its focus is on three areas:
- ‘integrated applications’, which is the combined use of different space and terrestrial technologies, data and infrastructures to create new everyday applications;
- climate change modelling using data from space;
- and developing new technologies for the next era of planetary exploration, including robotics and innovative power sources that could be used on the Moon and Mars.
The Centre hosts the ESA Climate Office and also runs activities in the domains of Space Exploration. It supports the use of space technology in downstream domains through Integrated Applications, technology transfer activities and a Business Incubator.states.
The ESA research centre in the United Kingdom, opened on July 2009. It is based at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire.
The ESA Harwell Centre is supporting as welll a Business Incubation Centre (BIC). It provides a unique opportunity for startup companies to access world class scientific facilities and research including that of the Diamond Light Source and STFC’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) – home to its internationally renowned space science department RAL Space, the world’s most powerful pulsed neutron source ISIS and the Central Laser Facility.
Oxford nanoSystems
Oxford nanoSystems are using emerging technologies to refine longstanding heat transfer techniques for consumer and industrial platforms.
It is a startup company based out of the European Space Agency Business Incubation Centre in Harwell Oxford.
Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex
The Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex is a launch complex located in the US Vandenberg Air Force Base (AFB). It is composed of several luanch sites (SLC-2, SLC-3, etc.).
SLC-2, the Space Launch Complex 2, is an active rocket launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base, in California, USA. It consists of two launch pads. The East pad (SLC-2E), which has been demolished, was used for Delta, Thor-Agena and Thorad launches between 1966 and 1972. The West pad, SLC-2W, has been used for Delta, Thor-Agena, and Delta II launches since 1966, and is still in service with the Delta II.
SLC-3, the Space launch Complex 3, consists of two pads, SLC-3E (East) and SLC-3W (West). The East-West coastline at Vandenberg allows SLC-3 to launch over-ocean polar trajectories that avoid landfall until passing over Antarctica. (By contrast, Cape Canaveral has a North-South coastline permitting over-ocean launches into standard orbits.)
AFB means 'Air Force Base'.
Command and Control Technologies Corp.
Command and Control Technologies Corporation (CCT) provides real-time mission critical automation to help decision makers control their operations efficiently and effectively. CCT specializes in the design and development of highly automated control systems for mission critical applications like range control, space launch, automated perimeter security, and industrial process control.
Mission critical is not just about IT. Mission critical is delivering a weapon on target. It's safely controlling a power generation plant 7×24. It's ensuring the integrity and safety of range operations during a space launch. Mission critical is the requirement for continuous end-to-end performance to accomplish your mission. With extensive experience in automating such demanding operations, CCT understands mission critical operations.
The company was formed in 1997 to spin-off space operations automation technology developed for NASA.
Magellan Aerospace
Magellan Aerospace designs and manufactures an array of space and rocket systems.
Magellan's engineering team can develop rocket motors systems to suit custom applications or tailor an existing design to meet specific mission requirements. Their privately operated propellant plant has the ability to develop, mix, cast and cure rocket propellent.
Magellan is providing customers with solutions for space missions that include sounding rockets and payloads, space shuttle payloads, International Space Station payloads, and spacecraft buses and integration services.
Space Applications Services
Space Applications Services N.V./S.A. is a Belgian space technology company, founded in 1987, whose aim is to develop innovative systems, solutions and products for the aerospace markets.
The main business lines are:
- Complete ground segments, control centers and control systems for spacecraft and robots;
- Human-machine and human-robot interaction systems and products, including visualization systems;
- Space system operation services: ground facility set up, operations preparation, planning, training and execution;
Orbit Logic Inc.
Orbit Logic is proposing mission planning and scheduling solutions.
Orbit Logic's operationally proven COTS products - STK Scheduler, Collection Planning & Analysis Workstation (CPAW), Collection Feasibility Tool (CFT), UAV Planner, and Sibyl Satellite Tasking mobile app - demonstrate Orbit Logic's expertise in aerospace planning and scheduling across a variety of platforms and domains.
Orbit Logic services enhance its mission planning and scheduling software. Services include mission specific software product configuration, product integration, program specific algorithm development and tuning, custom user interface and report development, process flow customization, project specific add-ons and new feature development, mission planning consulting and analysis, operations concept definition, automation refinement, and scheduling scenario development.
Reaction Engines Limited
Reaction Engines Limited (REL) is a British aerospace company based in Oxfordshire, England.
The company conducts research into space propulsion systems, centred around the development of the Skylon re-usable SSTO spaceplane. The three founders worked together on the HOTOL project, funding for which was withdrawn in 1988, largely due to significant technical obstacles.
AstroMast®
The AstroMast® is a self-deploying structure for spacecraft. It is a versatile product space proven with more than 50 successful deployments on programs such as MILSTAR, DMSP, Olympus, Mars Odyssey, GOES, and INSAT. It provides high performance in a coilable longeron mast and is available in a variety of sizes and configurations to suit your specific program needs.
The AstroMast is an extremely stiff and lightweight structure that can be manufactured in deployed diameters from 15 to 75 centimeters and as low as six kilograms mass.
Organisation: Astro Aerospace