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Space

Space

As a key partner in space and low orbit exploration and development, we build, launch and operate complex space infrastructures to ensure future advantage for our customers.

We work closely with the European Space Agency on ground-breaking projects which continue to push the boundaries of space exploration. 

We're also involved in projects which protect our critical national infrastructure, including secure navigation receivers for Galileo PRS, transceivers for the Mars Rovers and experiments for NASA. Our super-efficient T6 electric propulsion engines are currently propelling the European Space Agency’s BepiColombo mission to Mercury. Two research programmes we conducted have helped to prepare for the development of satellites that will contribute to critical climate change research. And from our state-of-the-art dynamic flight simulator and human centrifuge in Sweden, we offer training to enhance the experience and help people prepare for commercial suborbital spaceflight!

Services and Products

Avionics

We use our 20 years of experience in the Space industry to design and manufacture Avionics for spacecraft and launcher re-entry vehicles.

Berthing & Docking

QinetiQ Space is the prime contractor for the development of the International Berthing and Docking Mechanism (IBDM), the European androgynous low impact docking mechanism that is capable of docking and berthing large and small spacecraft.

Free Space Optical Communications

QinetiQ believes that Free Space Optical Communications (FSOC) – a technology originating in the commercial sector, offers true innovation that will unlock quantifiable increases in military capability.

Global Navigation Satellite System receiver

Building upon the success of the current QinetiQ Q20 GPS receiver product, QinetiQ is in the process of developing its next generation family of secured GNSS receivers.

Small Satellites

We design and deliver highly versatile small satellites and advanced subsystems for the commercial market.

Software Defined Radio Platform

This was developed in response to a customer requirement for a reconfigurable platform to meet the demanding processing requirements of current and future wideband satellite communication waveforms, such as DVB (DVB-DSNG, DVB-S, DVB-S2), and legacy w

Solar Electric Propulsion

Our range of Electric Propulsion engines are robust, low cost and high powered systems designed for commercial and scientific applications.

Space Security

Space Security covers both the security of satellites and their supporting infrastructures, and the use of security capabilities delivered by them to protect our way of life.

Spaceflight Training

We offer training to enhance the experience and help customers prepare for commercial suborbital spaceflight.

Postcards from space

QinetiQ's space capabilities

PROBA satellites still going strong

Remembering the Launch of PROBA-V

The next generation of small satellites

P200 Small Sat Platform