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Information Advantage in Space - Capitalising on the Data Revolution

Not since the space race in the last century has the space domain experienced such an exciting and dramatic change.

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Information Advantage

At QinetiQ, we are at the forefront of disruptive technology, delivering mission-critical solutions that respond to our customers’ needs at pace, across the defence, security and critical national infrastructure markets.

We have a deep understanding of the needs and future requirements of the UK MOD, currently supporting a number of vital missions and projects across all domains, adopting a mission-led innovation approach to harness new technology. Our focus markets are in four of the five eyes community, with an established US business and growing footprint in Australia and Canada, enabling vast collaboration opportunities across the globe. As world-leading experts in creating capability to solve complex problems, accelerating these to reality with advanced test and evaluation and providing the assurance to achieve competitive advantage, we have the solution for you.

Q40 Secure Navigation
Global Navigation Satellite System receiver
The Q40-MicroPNT™ and Q40-MicroStrike™ are part of a family of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers developed and marketed globally by QinetiQ.
Global Navigation Satellite System Receiver
spaceflight training
Spaceflight Training
We offer training to enhance the experience and help customers prepare for commercial suborbital spaceflight.
Spaceflight Training
Free Space Optical Communications
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.
Free Space Optical Communications
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Think small aim low a new direction for satellite communications
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QinetiQ communications technology to link exomars with earth
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Revolutionary low impact docking solution ticks all of the right boxes

We are trusted to design and deliver mission success. Over 35 mission-years in orbit delivering observation, platforms, science, navigation, propulsion, and secure communications support across military, security and civil space sectors.

QinetiQ's Space Capabilities

Download our PDF infographic detailing over 35 mission-years of success in the Space sector.
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Space

Take a look at our Postcards from Space blog series

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Training Testing and Evaluation PfS
Robotics
Manipulative Robotics? Not Necessarily a bad thing
Space and robots go back a long way. The robotic Sputnik 1 launched back in October of 1957, making history as earth’s first artificial satellite.
Manipulative Robots
Small Satellites
Small and Mighty: The Triumph of the Small Satellite
Since the beginning of the ‘space race’, there has been a growing market for satellites. But it’s small satellites – with a mass of under 1000kg - that have truly ‘taken off’ over the last few years.
Small Satellites and their Operation

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