The Portsmouth site of Airbus Defence and Space offers a complete suite of Dynamic, Thermal, and Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) test facilities. The extensive range of facilities provides customers with a ‘one stop’ test house capable of handling products from mobile phones to spacecraft payloads. Airbus DS services cover a variety of environmental simulation tests (including thermal vacuum, vibration, and shock), as well as EMC tests.

Chilbolton Observatory hosts part of the Atmospheric Measurement and Observation Facility (AMOF), with a particular focus on state-of-the-art radar instrumentation. The site is home to the world’s largest fully steerable meteorological radar, the Chilbolton Advanced Meteorological Radar (CAMRa).

Other facilities include:

• The Space Monitoring Facility, 25m antenna to track and characterize Earth orbiting satellites.
• The RAL Space Satellite Ground Station which has 4.5m and 6.1m antennas at Chilbolton, in addition to further antennas at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
• LOFAR-UK, part of the Europe-wide LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) radio telescope.

Fluid Gravity Engineering (FGE) is a scientific consultancy specialising in computational physics. Their work mainly employs continuum mechanics in fields such as: fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, shock physics, reactive multiphase flow, constitutive material response, and electromagnetics. They have strong backgrounds in Physics, Mathematics, Computing and Engineering. They are unique in our theoretical and computational capabilities in problem solving for regimes that exceed the limitations of “off the shelf” computational software due to high speeds and energy densities.

In-Space Missions Limited are world class experts who design, build and operate physical and digital customer missions, providing a valuable service to global customers keen to get their technology on orbit quickly.

Mars Space Ltd (MSL) is a SME established in 2007 and based in Southampton, UK, providing services and consultancy on space and plasma engineering and science. The main areas of expertise lie in space propulsion, in particular electric propulsion, and space environment. Since its incorporation, MSL has been involved in a variety of R&D activities in collaboration with several commercial partners and agencies carrying out the design, manufacturing, testing and modelling of different devices and prototypes.

A major centre of excellence in technology, science, health and engineering for all sizes of business from start-ups to multinationals.

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) pioneers audacious new satellite technologies, products and services and shares its know-how to enable advancement in Space. SSTL led the design, build, test and operation of small satellites and has been a world leader in the field for over 40 years.

Supported by a large consortium of academic, industrial, government and third-sector partners, the mission was to promote the continued exploitation of satellite data and technology in order to allow the South Coast region to gain a competitive advantage in a global market. They were especially keen to embed and grow satellite applications in Transport & Logistics, Autonomous Systems, and Offshore Assets while utilising cutting-edge technological developments in Artificial Intelligence, Earth Observation & Navigation, and Communications.

The Space South Central Advisory Board represent a terrific cross section of organisations from across the whole South Central region, all committed to contributing their time an effort to help translate Space South Central’s objectives into actions relevant to the region, promote strategic regional coherence, set priorities and provide direction to ensure objectives are delivered. The underlying priorities are to increase economic growth, inward investments, private financial investment and the take up of skills relevant to the space sector. The Board will also help coordinate collaborative bids for funding, particularly bids aligned with the National Space Strategy and UKSA.

Portsmouth University is home to ASTA Technology, the UK’s only ESA-accredited provider of space engineering training, was the lead partner of the former South Coast Centre of Excellence for Satellite Applications and is a founding partner of Space South Central.

Space at Southampton offers multiple facilities including: Artificial Intelligence, Spacecraft Autonomy and Control; Biomechanics lab with ultrasound and myoton scanners; Electric Propulsion Laboratory;  Environmental Sensing : Field Spectroscopy and Spectrophotometer; G.T. Roberts Jet Propulsion Laboratory; IRIDIS 5 High Performance Computing System.

The Surrey Space Centre is a world leading Centre of Excellence in Space Engineering.