Space Placements in Industry
The Space Placements in INdustry scheme (SPIN) has been designed to provide an introductory link for those considering employment in the space sector and space sector organisations looking to find the most talented and enthusiastic people to ensure the future success of their businesses. The scheme is managed by the UK Space Agency and supported by the Satellite Applications Catapult.
The value of practical experience in the workplace has long been recognised to offer benefits to the spintern, providing valuable experience of the work environment and the skills that are crucial to a successful career, and benefits to the sponsor or host organisation who can identify a project that might otherwise not be achievable, carried out with a fresh pair of eyes and perhaps a fresh perspective on their own organisation and possibly provide an informal extended interview of a potential employee.
The scheme has been running since 2013 and continues to grow in popularity. We always encourage enquiries from potential host organisations who have a short-term project (typically of eight weeks duration), and who would like to offer individuals the opportunity to gain new skills and an insight into their business.
We welcome applications from individuals from all disciplines who are enthusiastic to work in the space sector and are keen to develop new skills, applying and building on the knowledge they’ve acquired in their studies to date.
SPIN Frequently asked questions
2019 projects
The SPIN 2019 round has now closed.
Previous Placements
| Project Title | Ref | Company | Location | Closing Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FPGA/Digital Electronics Team Placement | 19/01 | Thales Alenia Space | Bristol | CLOSED |
| Advanced Concepts Team Placement | 19/02 | Thales Alenia Space | Bristol | CLOSED |
| Assembly Integration and Tests Team Placement | 19/03 | Thales Alenia Space | Harwell Campus, Didcot | CLOSED |
| Mechanical/Thermal Team Placement | 19/04 | Thales Alenia Space | Bristol | CLOSED |
| Mission & ACOS Team Placement | 19/05 | Thales Alenia Space | Harwell Campus, Didcot | CLOSED |
| Propulsion Engineering Team Placement | 19/06 | Thales Alenia Space | Harwell Campus, Didcot | CLOSED |
| Software Engineering Team Placement | 19/07 | Thales Alenia Space | Bristol | CLOSED |
| Systems Engineering Team Placement | 19/08 | Thales Alenia Space | Bristol | CLOSED |
| Nanosatellite Power Systems | 19/09 | Satellite Applications Catapult | Harwell Campus, Didcot | CLOSED |
| Illegal Mine Identification using Space and AI technologies | 19/10 | Satellite Applications Catapult | Harwell Campus, Didcot | CLOSED |
| Improving Sustainable Agriculture in Uganda: Building an Early Warning Platform | 19/11 | RHEA Group | Harwell Campus, Didcot | CLOSED |
| Laser Single-Event Effects Study for Microelectronics | 19/12 | Cobham RAD Europe Ltd. | Harwell Campus, Didcot | CLOSED |
| Real-Time Earth Observation Feed Development | 19/13 | Spacetime Development Ltd. | Harwell Campus, Didcot | CLOSED |
| Space Industry Analysis | 19/14 | Bryce Space and Technology Limited | Harwell Campus, Didcot and/or London, UK | CLOSED |
| Processing Cloud Optimized GeoTiff (COG) with Apache Spark | 19/15 | Satellite Applications Catapult | Harwell Campus, Didcot | CLOSED |
| Evaluating the Satellite Earth Observation ‘value add’ in a compute-abundant world: an evaluation of Geospatial Data Analysis Platforms | 19/16 | Satellite Applications Catapult | Harwell Campus, Didcot | CLOSED |
| Evaluating the interoperability of Sentinel-1 Analysis Ready Data | 19/17 | Satellite Applications Catapult | Harwell Campus, Didcot | CLOSED |
| Further Development of 3D Drone Navigation System | 19/18 | Satellite Applications Catapult | Harwell Campus, Didcot | CLOSED |
| Geolocation Specific Historical Archive Clean-Up System | 19/19 | Satellite Applications Catapult | Harwell Campus, Didcot | CLOSED |
| Development of Environmental Indicators using Earth Observation Data | 19/20 | Pixalytics Ltd. | Plymouth, UK | CLOSED |
| Habitat assessment from airborne and space-based remote sensing | 19/21 | 2Excel Geo | Sywell Aerodrome, Northamptonshire | CLOSED |
| Scoping Automation Potential for EO Data Pipeline | 19/22 | Omanos Analytics | Glasgow, UK | CLOSED |
| AI for Space Robotics | 19/23 | GMV Innovating Solutions | Harwell Campus, Didcot | CLOSED |
| Set up a test Data Cube within a Linux environment | 19/24 | Deimos Space UK Ltd. | Harwell Campus, Didcot | CLOSED |
| A comparison of drone mapping software for image mosaicking | 19/25 | Deimos Space UK Ltd. | Harwell Campus, Didcot | CLOSED |
| HR Augmented Intelligence | 19/26 | MeVitae | Harwell Campus, Didcot | CLOSED |
| Analysis into electrolytic decomposition of Hydroxylammonium nitrate (HAN)/nanoparticle solutions | 19/27 | University of Huddesfield | Hudderfield, UK | CLOSED |
| Comparison of models of disruption to GNSS | 19/28 | Nottingham Trent University | Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Campus | CLOSED |
| Design, Manufacture and Test of a demo satellite payload | 19/29 | Open Cosmos | Harwell Campus, Didcot | CLOSED |
| Orbital Lifetime Estimation for Space Debris | 19/30 | GMV Innovating Solutions | Harwell Campus, Didcot | CLOSED |
| GaAs Optical Modulators with large Temperature Range for Satellite Communications | 19/31 | aXenic | NetPark, Sedgefield | CLOSED |
| Analysing numerical simulations of a Mars global climate model | 19/32 | The Open University | The Open University, Milton Keynes | |
| Characterising the imaging detectors for the Soft X-ray Imager on SMILE | 19/33 | The Open University | The Open University, Milton Keynes | |
| A faster global climate model for Mars | 19/34 | The Open University | The Open University, Milton Keynes | |
| Analysis of data collected by the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter mission to Mars | 19/35 | The Open University | The Open University, Milton Keynes | |
| Applications of SUPER-SHARP CubeSat Space Telescopes | 19/36 | Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, UK | CLOSED |
| Develop visualisation portals for a Data Cube over Sub-Saharan Africa | 19/37 | Assimila Ltd. | Reading, UK | CLOSED |
| Architecting of a Secure Quantum Communications Satellite | 19/38 | Craft Prospect Ltd. | Glasgow, UK | CLOSED |
| Predict Crop Production Using Satellites and Machine Learning | 19/39 | Earthscope | London, UK | CLOSED |
| Thermal and Material Analysis for Satellite Deployers and Unicorn Platforms | 19/40 | Alba Orbital | Glasgow, UK | CLOSED |
| Analysis and Field Testing of Foresight Crops Services | 19/41 | Global Geo-Intelligence Solutions Ltd. | Nottingham, UK | CLOSED |
| Front End Implementation | 19/42 | Trade in Space Ltd. | Glasgow and Gogarburn, UK | CLOSED |
