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9 Vision for the Future Harwell Campus is an exciting place to be, with cutting edge 10 UK Space Industry science facilities, major organisations and a great mix of companies from start-ups to multinationals. The Campus was quick to realise 12 Stakeholder Organisations £2+bnfacilities that it needed a mechanism to encourage collaboration, knowledge 20 Companies Driving Innovation at Harwell sharing and drive innovation, which led to the development of 40 Life at Harwell thematic Clusters. It started with the Harwell Space Cluster and now includes the HealthTec and EnergyTec Clusters. 42 Harwell Tomorrow 45 Contact I have watched Harwell Campus flourish over the last seven years, including the Harwell Space Cluster, which has grown to 80 organisations employing 800 people. I don’t expect there to be any let up in this growth and I look forward to the Campus changing, literally before my very eyes.

SPACE I am really excited about the opportunities at the intersections between these Clusters, such as between the Space and HealthTec Clusters. Harwell CLUSTER Campus is able to demonstrate multidisciplinary innovation every day.

There is no better way to really understand what is happening than to visit. I hope that you will do just that and that you will become part of the exciting future of the Harwell Space Cluster and help the UK reach organisations80 its goal of taking 10% of the global space market by 2030.

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2 3 SUCCESS OF THE HARWELL EMPLOYEE GROWTH SPACE CLUSTER OVER 10% The Harwell Space Cluster was the first 90 900 cluster to be established at Harwell Campus 80 800 following the arrival of the European Space 70 700 Agency, Satellite Applications Catapult and 60 600 Harwell Campus is home to over £2 billion of scientific UK Space Agency, alongside the longstanding 50 500 facilities and 5,500 skilled people. To drive collaboration Harwell Space activities of STFC RAL Space. The presence 40 400 and knowledge sharing, ‘clusters’ have been developed of these stakeholder organisations has attracted 30 300 in Space, Healthcare Technology (HealthTec) and Energy Cluster is the many companies to set up operations at Harwell 20 200 (EnergyTec). Each cluster brings together co-located Campus. Since 2010 the Harwell Space Cluster 10 100 co-location of 0 0 industry, academia and public sector with investors and has grown from a handful to more than 80 space entrepreneurs, leading to a powerful combination to industry, academia organisations today, employing over 800 people. 2015 2016 2017 tackle global challenges. Increasingly, more companies are and public sector The number of employees in the Harwell Space Employees Organisations exploring the opportunities at the intersections between Cluster has been growing at 13% per annum these clusters delivering multidisciplinary innovation. organisations at for the last two years. Harwell related to the space sector. The Space Cluster exemplifies the vision of Harwell as a nexus of ideas and an engine for innovation across discipline boundaries. STRONG COLLABORATION GATEWAY TO THE UK SPACE SECTOR Dr Barbara Ghinelli Collaboration at Harwell is strong, for example, Harwell Space Cluster is able to act as the Director, Campus Business Development AgSpace worked with the Satellite Applications gateway to the UK space sector due to the wide Catapult to develop a new crop measurement range of national facilities, infrastructure and tool for farmers; Deimos and eOsphere are space organisatons with established links across working together as part of the UK Space the UK. Harwell is the first port of call for many Agency’s International Partnership Programme; international visitors to the UK space industry. RAL Space is collaborating with Thales Alenia Space to deliver the Microcarb satellite mission, a joint UK-French satellite mission to help combat climate change; Orbital Micro Systems came to Harwell through the Satellite Application Great facilities, amazing companies led In Orbit Demonstration Programme and – this is an exciting place to be. have subsequently partnered with Satavia Dr Joanna Hart to enhance flight safety and reduce aircraft Harwell Space Cluster Development Manager maintenance costs.

4 5 Real innovation in whatever discipline often occurs at the interface between areas of expertise. Multidisciplinary clusters MULTIDISCIPLINARY become a huge cauldron for innovation. Sir John Bell ATTRIBUTES OF A Regius Professor, University of Oxford and Chair of the Bill INNOVATION SUCCESSFUL CLUSTER and Melinda Gates Foundation Scientific Advisory Committee

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R s A e L ti The Harwell HealthTec Cluster includes The emergent EnergyTec Cluster is building on S ili p ac N ac f e e al d the Diamond synchrotron, Public Health the unique insights into battery behaviour at the w , D ic e i n nn re am ch la st o te p England and the Medical Research Council, ISIS neutron source and Diamond, as well as the au nd nd on ran , IS s a ati t, IS – fice od and will include the new £103 million Rosalind catalysis hub at the Research Complex where gym 710 s, of m an acre site housing lab com d ho ial ac Franklin Institute, which will house 240 many collaborations with universities already tel coming – Resident scientists linked to 10 universities. Companies exist. The HQ for the Faraday Institution will join at Harwell include Adaptix Imaging, The companies such as Oxford nanoSystems, FACILITIES Electrospinning Company, Oxford Nanopore SerraLux and ZapGo. and OxSyBio and the Cluster is linked to over 250 companies in the Oxfordshire Biopharma Cluster.

6 7 BUILDING THE VISION FOR HARWELL SPACE THE FUTURE

The common vision for the Harwell Space Cluster is: CLUSTER All of the stakeholder organisations RAL Space are working to accelerate the National RAL Space growth of the Harwell Space Cluster TO BE A GLOBALLY >70 organisations Satellite Test Assembly Facility to open and to continue to build Harwell’s Integration and 50th company Test Facility, graduates from global reputation. This will involve: RENOWNED SPACE R100, opens ESA BIC Harwell 2020 ESA ECSAT CLUSTER AND International centre opens Space Innovation Satellite 2017 Centre (ISIC) Applications GATEWAY TO THE establishes, with Catapult launches Growing the Harwell Space Cluster to Airbus, Telespazio 2015 1 200 organisations employing 5,000 people VEGA and others UK SPACE SECTOR opening offices by 2030 (in line with the Space Growth 2013 Partnership targets) from the current 80 ESA opens space organisations with a combined Harwell office 2011 800 employees. This will require growth of the existing organisations at Harwell and attracting new companies to set up 2009 2018 operations at Harwell, including inward 80 organisations investors that can work alongside 2016 Oxford Space universities, Harwell facilities and >60 space Systems moves large companies to rapidly exploit organisations into new Zephyr and commercialise advances in 2014 Oxfordshire’s Science on campus building research and technology. Lockheed Martin and Innovation Audit and Thales Rezatec moves identifies data-led space 2012 Alenia Space into new Quad Working with UK public organisations, companies, UK Space Agency open Harwell One building 2 academia and clusters to leverage the national applications as a opens office offices 2010 and international assets at Harwell to enable transformative technology ESA BIC Harwell economic growth across the UK. Using the that will bring innovation launches RAL Space strong links with academia, particularly the local and growth for the local universities of Oxford, Oxford Brookes and and national economy. Reading, will drive productivity improvements The Harwell Space Cluster Government across the UK. is pioneering this innovative Investment Commercial technology and we are Investment 3 Building links with international space committed to supporting clusters and organisations to build partnership its continued success. opportunities, encourage exports and inward Nigel Tipple investment to help the UK reach its target of Chief Executive, OxLEP 10% of the global space market by 2030. 8 9 CONNECTED ACROSS THE UK AND BEYOND UK SPACE The Harwell Space Cluster is part of the wider UK space sector and is connected to other clusters of space activity across SIZE & HEALTH the UK. The Satellite Applications Catapult, with support from the UK Space Agency, OF THE UK SPACE 1 INDUSTRY 1 has five Centres of Excellence across the UK; the Science and Technology INDUSTRY 2016 Facilities Council has additional sites at Daresbury and Edinburgh; UK Space Agency has also invested in a number TARGETS 10% £ of business incubators across the UK to create a comprehensive Space Incubator Network2. Through the international £13.7bn 6.5% operations of companies based at Harwell, Total Income Share of global ESA and international collaborative in 2014/15 space economy OF GLOBAL in 2014/15 projects supported by the UK Space Agency, Harwell has global reach.

£ SPACE MARKET DEVELOPING SKILLS The UK space sector is currently Harwell Space Cluster is actively working 38,500 2.7x to ensure that the space sector has the growing at 6.5% each year and Employees Labour productivity in 2014/15 compared to skills it needs to deliver on its targets. has a labour productivity 2.7 UK average For example the Satellite Applications times the national average. Catapult and UK Space Agency run a The Government’s Industrial Strategy sets out GVA Space Placements in Industry3 scheme how the UK Space Agency is working with industry which introduces undergraduates to the to grow the UK’s share of the global space market space sector and helps space companies from 6.5% to 10% by 2030. This will build on recruit new talent. As a world-leading the strong returns delivered through the Space £5.1bn 7 in 10 multidisciplinary science organisation, Direct contribution of Organisations expect Innovation and Growth Strategy, which since 2010 the UK space industry income growth over STFC supports university research and has involved a powerful combination of industry, to UK GDP the next three years inspires the next generation from public academia and the public sector. engagement to apprenticeships. Wider UK GDP* Harwell Space Cluster has a significant role, supported by satellite services as many of the key players in the UK have a presence at Harwell, making it a gateway to More than £250bn Our expertise in robotics the UK space sector. The UK space sector already and AI, structural engineering provides £5.1 billion of GDP to the UK economy and materials testing, means and when the wider benefits of satellite-enabled Oxford Brookes is able to services are included the impact is greater than collaborate with the Harwell £250 billion. If all the satellites were turned off Space Cluster to support the

tomorrow, that would be the impact to the UK Navigation

Meterorology national ambition of achieving economy. The space sector is a strategic and

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1UK Space Agency Size & Health of the UK Space Industry 2016, London Economics: Pro Vice Chancellor Research & Global 1sacatapultcoe.org www.gov.uk 2setsquared.co.uk/start-support/uk-space-incubator-network Partnerships, Oxford Brookes University *UK non-financial business economy only 3sa.catapult.org.uk/people/space-placements-industry-spin 10 11 EUROPEAN SPACE STAKEHOLDER AGENCY (ESA)

ORGANISATIONS The European Centre for Space and the commercialisation of microgravity Applications and Telecommunications research in areas such as healthcare for (ECSAT) is the headquarters of ESA’s the ageing population. The new EnergyTec Directorate of Telecommunications and Cluster brings the prospect of addressing the Integrated Applications. ECSAT has over latest developments in battery technology 100 people drawn from the majority of and electric propulsion systems. ESA’s 22 Member States. The ESA-RAL Advanced Manufacturing Its main focus is on the development Laboratory provides expertise and test of commercial satellite communication services to investigate and optimise materials products, services and applications, destined for future space projects and through ESA’s programme of Advanced associated manufacturing processes. Research in Telecommunications Systems ECSAT has conference and meeting facilities (ARTES). This is designed to stimulate for free use by space organisations from ESA innovation in everything from business Member States, especially those from the applications to satellites and from ground Harwell Space Cluster, in line with ESA’s aim stations to user terminals. for its centre at Harwell to help anchor ESA The ESA Climate Office manages ESA’s in the UK and the UK in ESA. climate-related activities including the Climate Change Initiative programme, which produces data sets of Essential Climate Variables that are vital contributors to the Global Climate Observing System. The Human and Robotic Exploration Directorate supports activities in robotics and autonomy as well as the development of an analogue Sample Curation Facility at Harwell, contracted to London’s Natural History Museum. The facility curates materials like rock and soil that are analogues of the Moon, Mars and other alien bodies, for engineering One of the key attractions and scientific use. of the Harwell Space Cluster The University of Oxford ESA participates in the Harwell HealthTec Cluster to develop new services in tele- is the co-location of all the key works closely with Harwell medicine and environmental monitoring, organisations that are supporting Campus on high energy physics, life sciences and the space industry in the UK. increasingly in the space These national and international organisations sector, with collaborations Having the ESA team are stakeholders in the success of the Harwell working on novel satellite located at Harwell has been Space Cluster and are actively working to support instrumentation, robotics really helpful in facilitating the it. Over the coming pages we highlight these and downstream applications process and providing easy organisations, their capabilities, facilities and how of data for uses ranging from access to technical expertise. they support companies at the Harwell Space disaster management to Cluster and beyond. Mike Lawton financial services. CEO, Oxford Space Systems Professor Ian Walmsley FRS Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Research and Innovation, University of Oxford esa.int

12 13 ESA BUSINESS RAL SPACE INCUBATION CENTRE

R100 – Testing and Validation Facility RAL Space opened R100 in July 2015, which houses For any start-up, spin-out or entrepreneur, coming up The ESA BIC network is now the largest STFC RAL Space has launched over 211 its facilities for industry and RAL Space to test and with a great idea is just the first step. Turning it quickly single incubation network in Europe, with instruments into space and undertakes calibrate space instruments from nanosats through and effectively into a winning commercial offering can 18 ESA BIC's which had supported 546 world-leading space research and to 7-tonne communications satellites. Existing facilities be an even bigger challenge. The European Space Agency technology development, provides space start-ups by the end of 2017. The ESA BIC include two new 5 metre diameter Space Test Business Incubation Centre Harwell (ESA BIC Harwell) Harwell celebrated the graduation of its 50th test and ground-based facilities, designs helps young space-related companies to meet this challenge, company in August 2017. It has supported 65 and builds instruments, analyses and Chambers, both sited over active seismic blocks to enabling them to leverage the funding, support, skills and start-ups in total which between them have processes data and operates ground- provide vibration isolation. The building also houses facilities they need to transform technology into successful, raised equity investment of more than £30 station facilities, as well as leading a vibration facility, a suite of clean rooms and the vibrant businesses. Both companies developing technologies million (Beauhurst, February 2018). During conceptual studies for future missions. Assembly, Integration and Verification control room. for use in space and companies applying space technologies 2018 both the size and the geographical reach It works alongside the UK Space Agency, in non-space sectors are eligible to apply. of the ESA BIC Harwell will be expanded as which co-ordinates UK civil space RAL Space R100 building Set up by ESA in 2010 as part of its rapidly-growing Europe-wide it develops into the ESA BIC UK, with new activities, and it works with space- and BIC network, and managed by the Science and Technology Facilities locations at STFC’s science and innovation ground-based groups around the world. Council (STFC), the ESA BIC Harwell draws on the outstanding campus at Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire RAL Space has been involved in many track record of both organisations in high-tech business incubation, and the new Higgs Centre for Innovation at high profile projects, such as the Ptolemy providing a unique environment at the heart of the Harwell Space the Royal Observatory Edinburgh. instrument aboard the Rosetta Philae Cluster geared exclusively to accelerating innovation. Each year lander with the Open University. 10 or more start-ups are accepted into the ESA BIC Harwell and RAL Space is currently working on provided with a comprehensive incubation package of technical several aspects of the EUMETSAT / ESA support, access to specialist facilities and equipment, business MetOp-SG collaboration, a programme to support, grant funding to accelerate product development, provide low Earth orbiting meteorological networking events and office accommodation. satellites for the coming decades. RAL Space National Satellite Test Facility is providing critical millimetre wave receiver As part of the Government’s Industrial Strategy, components for MetOp-SG’s Microwave RAL Space was awarded £99 million in 2017 for the Sounder, Microwave Imager and Ice Cloud National Satellite Test Facility. From spring 2020 UK Imager instrument series, and is developing companies will have access to a comprehensive set cryogenic ground calibration apparatus for pre-launch testing of the first two of of satellite test capabilities in one location. these instruments. Graduation of the 50th company from the ESA BIC Harwell, August 2017 RAL Space is one of only a few facilities ESA BIC Harwell and worldwide with the expertise to design the space networks in Harwell and produce highly specialised calibration targets for millimetre and shorter wavelength enabled Open Cosmos to instruments. RAL Space supports Space launch its first satellite in Surveillance and Tracking in collaboration less than a year. Today, we with partners around the world through its are offering our satellites Chilbolton Observatory in Hampshire. and space mission services to Thermal Vacuum chamber in R100 customers all over the world.

Rafel Jorda Siquier Founder and Chief Executive, Open Cosmos Ltd RAL Space made substantial contributions to developments, which helped develop the SME business that Thales Alenia Space bought in 2014 as the foundation of its UK footprint. RAL Space continues to provide similar support to other SMEs developing in the space industry and entering the Thales Alenia Space supply chain.

Ben Olivier ralspace.stfc.ac.uk esa-bic.org.uk CEO, Thales Alenia Space, UK /Pages/home.aspx

14 15 SATELLITE UK SPACE AGENCY APPLICATIONS CATAPULT

The Satellite Applications Catapult is an innovation The UK Space Agency, an executive agency and technology company transforming the way the world of the Department for Business, Energy uses satellite technology and data. The company helps The Catapult has created and Industrial Strategy, is at the heart of UK The roles of the UK Space Agency include: organisations large and small to overcome barriers to the ideal environment for efforts to explore and benefit from space. innovation in the use of satellite applications to grow their The Agency is comprised of around 140 staff • leading the UK civil space policy and maximising Deimos Space UK to grow and business in the UK and internationally. The Catapult team based in Swindon, London and Harwell. the UK contribution to European initiatives, challenges these barriers by bringing together industry, gain credibility in the UK The UK Space Agency is the lead for UK civil including the European Space Agency researchers and end-users to explore and develop new market. space, responsible for all strategic decisions ideas, and accelerate products and services to market. on the UK civil space programme and • building a strong national space capability, Michael Lawrence Through Catapult's Market Programmes – Intelligent Transport, providing a clear, single voice for UK space including scientific and industrial centres Business Development Director, Sustainable Living, Blue Economy, and Government Services – ambitions. The UK Space Agency focuses Deimos Space UK of excellence it connects the satellite applications sector with end-users' on ensuring that the UK retains and grows building collaborative programmes that address their challenges. a strategic capability in space-based • co-ordinating national strategic investments systems, technologies, science and in space Catapult's Technology Programme builds capability, helping applications in order to win sustainable companies advance their products and take advantage of new economic growth, secure new scientific • working to inspire and engage a growing, skilled emerging technologies such as, artificial intelligence and smart sa.catapult.org.uk knowledge and provide benefit to all citizens. UK workforce of space technologists and scientists analytics, robotics and autonomous systems, visualisation technologies, 5G and the Internet of Things. The UK Space Agency has strategic • working on national and international space projects responsibility for supporting growth of At Harwell, the Catapult hosts world-class facilities and provides in co-operation with industry and academia the space sector across the whole of the business and technical support services, connecting organisations United Kingdom, including development of • regulating UK civil space activities and ensuring with the resources they need to launch and grow. The team hosts a The Satellite the UK Space Gateway at Harwell. Harwell large business networking event, Satuccino, at the Harwell Campus we meet international treaty obligations has been developed as an important Space every month and offers support across the UK regions through five Applications Cluster within the UK as a result of a clear Centres of Excellence in Scotland, the North East, the East Midlands, and sustained UK Government policy led by the South Coast and the South West. Catapult is part the UK Space Agency. The UK Space Agency of a network of 10 regards Harwell as a national and international gateway into the UK’s space strengths, with its Catapults set-up major institutions (RAL Space and the National BUSINESS SUPPORT Satellite Test Facility), the Satellite Applications • Business modelling, market research and by Innovate UK, Catapult and the European Space Agency’s financial planning European Centre for Space Applications and the government’s Telecommunications providing expertise and • User-centred design facilities to support growth at Harwell and • Start-up support innovation agency, across the country. • Access to finance to transform the • Networking UK’s capability

for innovation in The clustering of specific areas and resources and industries FACILITIES in specific locations can • Far field antenna range help drive future provide a conducive • Operations centre economic growth. context for success – this • SatComms lab is already evident through • Climate, environment and monitoring the coordinated investment from space (CEMS) cloud-based services in the UK Space Gateway • Conference and meeting facilities at Harwell.

National Space Policy, 2015 gov.uk/ukspaceagency

16 17 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL (STFC)

STFC manages over £2 billion DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE ISIS NEUTRON AND MUON SOURCE SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING DEPARTMENT of the UK’s world-leading Diamond Light Source is the UK’s National synchrotron. national physical sciences It harnesses the power of electrons to produce light laboratories at Harwell. 10 billion times brighter than the sun that scientists can use to study anything from fossils and fuels to viruses Capabilities range from genetics and genomics, and vaccines. Diamond plays a major international role in cellular and structural biology to pharmacology, big biomedical research from infectious disease treatments data, space technologies, advanced materials and and drug resistance through to cancer research. engineering. These rare ‘open access’ facilities and associated skills provide a powerful platform to help accelerate innovation, using leading-edge new technologies and applications, taking advantage of opportunities for collaboration between partners from different disciplines to inspire fresh thinking. STFC’s ISIS facility is a world-leading centre for The Scientific Computing Department provides research in the physical and life sciences through large-scale High Performance Computing facilities, In April 2018 UK Research and Innovation was its suite of neutron and muon instruments which computing data services and infrastructure, including formed, bringing together nine Councils including give unique insights into the properties of materials the JASMIN ‘super-data-cluster’, a globally unique on the atomic scale. platform for exploiting climate and an e-infrastructure STFC into a single organisation that aims to be the for climate and Earth system science. best research and innovation organisation in the world. For more information visit ukri.org STFC TECHNOLOGY CENTRAL LASER FACILITY (CLF)

STFC Technology provides advanced technology CLF is one of the world’s leading laser facilities, and engineering in support of both STFC-funded providing scientists from the UK and Europe with an activities and other high-profile international projects. unparalleled range of state-of-the-art laser technology This includes support for the space programmes and expertise across the scientific disciplines. in RAL Space and developing new technologies Applications include experiments in physics, chemistry that were instrumental in the breakthrough detection and biology, accelerating subatomic particles to high of gravitational waves in 2015. By leveraging energies, probing chemical reactions on the shortest commonality across STFC facilities and programmes, timescales and studying biochemical and biophysical STFC Technology provides researchers with access processes critical to life itself. to a much broader and deeper pool of technical expertise than would be possible individually, thereby enabling them collectively to tackle challenges that would otherwise be beyond reach. 18 19 ÅAC-CLYDE Harwell offers a flourishing environment to establish key business relationships and COMPANIES ÅAC-Clyde provides market-leading innovative space solutions address a growing global need and services. Operating internationally, the company offers a wide range of mission experience, specialist expertise for small satellites. and commercially-focused space solutions. Their full turnkey Mr Iraklis Hatziathanasiou mission service covers everything from constellation design VP Business development Europe to satellite operations and enables their customers to reach DRIVING INNOVATION their mission goals with a single, trusted point of contact. ÅAC-Clyde’s office in Harwell UK serves customers across Europe and Asia, including space agencies like ESA and JAXA as well as leading industrial groups.

AT HARWELL aacmicrotec.com clyde.space Diamonds supplied by Element Six, due to their The 80 organisations at the Harwell outstanding optical, thermal, chemical and mechanical AGSPACE Being based in Harwell is Space Cluster offer a wide variety properties, are already being really important for a company of products and services, from those used by the space industry. driven by new technology and AgSpace Agriculture Ltd was formed in 2013 in response to frequently now by the influence producing equipment and satellites Element Six is excited by the growing demand for precision farming services in the arable to go into space to those generating their many opportunities to sector. AgSpace develop and sell online farming software to of satellite data. agronomy service providers, seed and fertilisers retailers who exploit diamond’s properties Mike Geeves services and solutions using the data then sell on direct to the farmer. AgSpace’s online software with more organisations Technology Director generated by space instruments, contains modules for crop recording, yield mapping and based at the Harwell Campus. variable rate applications. In addition AgSpace provides users including Earth observation, satellite Harwell Space Cluster is with satellite imagery of the growing crop. AgSpace has worked communications and navigation. pioneering this innovative with the Satellite Applications Catapult to develop crop growth technology and we are indices for a variety of UK arable crops, based on radar data which Many companies are taking space capability to new market will revolutionise farmers' undestanding of their crops. In January sectors, such as KEIT, which supplies spectrometers committed to supporting 2018 AgSpace launched its new, improved online software designed for space for use in heavy industrial processes. its continued success. incorporating the new crop growth index with the aim to provide end users with better, more frequent information on their crops. ag-space.com Daniel Twitchen These companies range in size: Head of CVD Business Development, Element Six • Start-ups, many of which are, or have been, part of the ESA Business Incubation Centre here at Harwell The following pages give a sense AIRBUS DEFENCE Airbus is delighted to see and companies that utilise the hot desk facilities at of the companies and capabilities at the continuing success of the the Satellite Applications Catapult. Harwell as well as highlight why AND SPACE Harwell Cluster to stimulate the • Satellite majors that have a presence at Harwell, so many companies are choosing to Airbus Defence and Space is UK’s premier space company, downstream space sector which such as Airbus, Lockheed Martin, Reaction Engines. be part of the Harwell Space Cluster. employing over 3,000 staff in the UK. Airbus provides mechanical platforms and payloads for over 25% of the world’s is key to developing the overall • Increasingly there are a number of companies with For more details about these and other telecommunications satellites and delivers world-leading Earth space value chain. a larger presence here such as Thales Alenia Space, UK space organisations visit the Space observation and science programmes including ESA’s Sentinel-5 Precursor, Solar Orbiter and ExoMars Rover. Airbus continues Andrew Stroomer Deimos, Rezatec, Open Cosmos and Oxford Space and Satellite Applications Landscape visit: to support the development of the Harwell Space Cluster to Business Development Director Systems, now employing 20–50 people each. space.ktnlandscapes.com. spearhead the development and promotion of space-based data and applications. Airbus’s office at Harwell allows the flexibility to provide on-site resources in accordance with project and business needs and the opportunity to access expertise across the Harwell Campus and, in particular, to connect with user communities outside the space sector. airbus.com

20 21 ARCHANGEL As an edge artificial AVS The Campus has changed intelligence company, we wanted drastically since I arrived in 2009. IMAGING access to Oxford's AI talent and It hosts large science facilities Archangel Imaging develops edge AI (artificial intelligence) space industry customers with AVS is a technology development company that produces that we work with, but it is now applications and hardware. Can't get the data back to the bespoke solutions to science and technology markets, from cloud in time? No problem. Archangel Imaging push the problems in remote places. the initial concept through to manufacture, integration and test: becoming the Space Cluster in intelligence right out to the sensor instead. Archangel Imaging Harwell is a natural home for us. astrophysics, particle accelerators, neutrons, synchrotrons, the UK with great potential has developed several machine vision cameras and payloads fusion, lasers and space. AVS UK focuses mainly in the space opportunities. This has allowed Dan Sola to help fight crime, save lives and protect the environment in market and is working in new electric propulsion technologies, AVS UK to grow from 2 to 8 remote areas where cloud-based artificial intelligence solutions CEO space mechanisms and developments for exploration, scientific simply cannot work. Archangel Imaging products can be missions, telecommunications and Earth observation. AVS is employees in the last year. integrated onto different platforms and improve with every producing an innovative catalogue of unique space products Alberto Garbayo mission. Welcome to the Internet of Smart Things. that will enable new mission capabilities. Business Director of AVS UK

archangel.im a-v-s.uk.com

ARRALIS We recently opened an BDE SPACE We moved to Harwell Campus office at Harwell for our business in June 2015 and have found it to be development activities, as we a great place to meet like-minded Arralis is a rapidly scaling company, providing world-leading thought it would be the perfect BDE Space is an engineering consultancy that designs satellite people and access world-leading expertise in RF, micro and millimetre-wave technology. ground stations and VSAT networks for international carriers, Arralis has offices in Ireland, UK, USA, Hong Kong and fit as Harwell is a hub for space ISPs, broadcasters and system integrators. By not selling physical technical facilities. a fabrication facility in China. Arralis has a core focus in W, technology and innovation. hardware, BDE Space is able to provide clients with technically David Bookham Ka and E Bands and is building fully integrated RF front ends. justified and economical solutions reinforced by over 30 years in Managing Director Arralis designs and manufactures MMICs, modules and antennas Gary Soul the satellite industry including first-hand experience in handling for these bands and provide fully integrated systems for vision Vice President, RF power levels to 10kW and frequencies up to Q Band. Services and radar applications. Arralis’s products, which are the ultimate Business Development include undertaking feasibility studies through writing tenders in precision and innovation, are used in both global and space and managing the final project, enabling clients to concentrate environments where accuracy and reliability are critical. on running their company confident in the knowledge that the Arralis provides the invisible edge to some of the world’s engineering aspects of their business are in safe hands. largest aerospace, defence and communications companies.

arralis.com bdespace.com

ASTROSCALE Harwell Space Cluster is COBHAM RAD Our location at Harwell is a natural home in the UK for our important to us, being at the innovative new space company. SOLUTIONS heart of the UK space community. Astroscale is a private company dedicated to the maintenance We have developed strong Cobham RAD Solutions is a leading test house for assessing Coupled with the nuclear heritage of long-term spaceflight safety through the provision of a the effects of ionising radiation on electronic components, low-cost and reliable space debris removal service. The first commercial partners at Harwell, materials and sensors. Cobham RAD Solutions provides services of the site, this gives us links private company with a mission to secure orbital sustainability, helping us to grow our business. for customers in the space, nuclear, medical and industrial into the two primary sectors for Astroscale is designing and building a mission to demonstrate sectors where equipment is used in a radiation environment. our services. satellite capture and deorbit technology. John Auburn As well as aiding part selection at the design stage, test data UK Director helps provide assurance that equipment will operate in service Richard Sharp Astroscale Ltd, the UK branch of the international company, as planned, whether against total dose or single event effects. Managing Director, Europe is responsible for mission licensing, insurance and business Cobham RAD’s test house in Harwell has ISO 9001:2015 development activities. Additionally, Astroscale Ltd is leading certification and is the only one outside the USA to hold full the development of the In-Orbit Servicing Control Centre DLA laboratory certification for total dose radiation testing. This National Facility, operated from the Satellite Applications enables European manufacturers of high reliability components Catapult and funded by Innovate UK, with support from the to use a local source for their testing requirements. European Space Agency. astoscale.com cobham.com/rad-solutions

22 23 DATABASIX UK Harwell has a variety of EARTH-I Earth-i’s presence at the businesses of all sizes, across the Harwell Space Cluster has space sector which presents us helped us to identify R&D Databasix UK is a people-focused data consultancy based at with a fantastic opportunity to Earth-i is a leading global Earth observation company, providing funding, collaboration Harwell. Databasix has extensive experience leading on the very high-resolution satellite imagery and data services for technical development of information management systems collaborate and apply our expertise. advanced analytics and insights. Earth-i launched VividX2, the opportunities and connected in a healthcare setting, which involves engaging with a wide first satellite in the new Vivid-i Constellation, in January 2018, us to potential customers. Kellie Peters variety of stakeholders, with differing information needs and to deliver the world’s first full-colour high definition video from Data Rockstar & Chief Executive differing levels of competency in relation to IT/technology. space. The purpose of the Vivid-i Constellation is to provide Gareth Crisford Databasix acts as a bridge between the technical development a rapid response service delivering very high-resolution full-motion Sales and Business Development teams and the end users of a system, translating technical video and still imagery of anywhere on Earth, multiple times capabilities and user need so there is clarity on both sides. of day. The company already supplies high-resolution image The team has experience spanning both the UK and European data services from the DMC3 and KOMPSAT satellites, and healthcare environments and increasingly in the space sector. aggregates commercial satellite imaging capacity to assist policy makers and innovators make more effective decisions, fast.

dbxuk.com earthi.space

DEIMOS SPACE UK Harwell Campus has been EFFECTIVE SPACE Harwell is a great place the ideal environment for Deimos for us to develop links into to grow and gain credibility in the SOLUTIONS the supply chain to accelerate Deimos Space UK is a subsidiary of the Spanish company UK market. We have established Effective Space is pioneering last-mile logistics in space. Effective Space’s growth. Elecnor Deimos, which employs more than 400 people in four It deploys and operates a fleet of small SPACE DRONE™ profitable business relationships countries – Spain, UK, Portugal and Romania. Deimos Space spacecraft that will deliver, position, maintain, monitor and Daniel Campbell UK was created in 2013 to address the UK and UK-export market with companies based at Harwell guarantee space assets in orbit and beyond. Phase One rollout Managing Director for space systems, services and applications. The company through the many networking is based on a solid business case: life-extension services to has grown rapidly and now employs 20 people in the UK. opportunities here. operators of satellites in GEO. Services include station-keeping The team has expertise in flight systems, ground systems, and attitude-control, relocation, orbit and inclination correction, space situational awareness, satellite navigation, applications Michael Lawrence deorbiting and ‘bringing into use’ (BIU). Next phases will support and services. This knowledge of satellites, data systems and Business Development Director the evolving low-earth-orbit (LEO) constellations, as well as location-based services puts the company in a unique position active-debris-removal (ADR) missions. Long-term services will when developing satellite applications. Future target markets also support asteroid-mining, deep-space exploration and space for new applications of Earth observation data based on deep manufacturing logistics. learning include agronomy/environment, urban mapping and coastal monitoring. deimos-space.co.uk effective.space

DIGITALGLOBE DigitalGlobe is excited to be EMFCOMP at the Harwell Campus working with Satellite Applications Catapult DigitalGlobe is a leading provider of commercial high-resolution and several of the exciting start-ups EMFcomp is an award-winning organisation that helps Earth observation and advanced geospatial solutions that companies manage hazards related to electromagnetic field help decision makers better understand our changing planet present there. (EMF) exposure. EMFs are present wherever there is electrical in order to save lives, resources and time. Sourced from the power and, if these fields are high enough, they can cause Dave Benson world’s leading constellation, DigitalGlobe's imagery solutions adverse health effects in people. Because of this, new UK Regional Director deliver unmatched coverage and capacity to meet customers’ legislation in the form of ‘The Control of Electromagnetic Fields most demanding mission requirements. Each day customers at Work Regulations’ now requires all employers to assess in defence and intelligence, public safety, civil agencies, the exposure of their workers to electromagnetic radiation. mapmaking and analysis, environmental monitoring, oil and EMFcomp is the only company in the UK that can provide a gas exploration, infrastructure management, navigation complete service to measure, model and give advice on EMF technology, and providers of location-based services depend exposure across the full frequency range. With our Chartered on DigitalGlobe data, information, technology and expertise Radiation Protection Specialists, we make it easy for businesses to gain actionable insight. to comply with the new EMF Regulations. digitalglobe.com emfcomp.com

24 25 ENVIRONMENT Harwell provides a central GEOCENTO Harwell is ideal for base in addition to our Aberystwyth a company like ours: strong SYSTEMS headquarters. aspirations for growth and Environment Systems is an established environmental and Geocento is aggregating and consolidating access to imagery recognition that collaboration agricultural data company, providing trusted evidence and Steve Keyworth of our planet, leveraging the collective imaging capabilities of a insight to governments and industry across the world since Commercial Director range of suppliers to provide a powerful observational capability. is essential for success. 2003. The consultancy delivers bespoke advice and solutions Geocento uses this capability to offer business intelligence that Kim Partington for land management, monitoring and policy for ecosystems, is based on strong sampling and strategic business partnerships CEO natural capital evaluation, agricultural trials and agricultural to offer best-in-class intelligence for different markets. Geocento supply chains. The company’s recently launched satellite data established its head office in Harwell at the end of 2011 and has services deliver always-on, accessible open data insights from a wholly-owned subsidiary company in Madrid, which focuses satellite Earth observations analytics. on technology development. Company turnover reached £500,000 in 2017 and is currently in the process of scaling up.

envsys.co.uk geocento.com

EOSPHERE We enjoy the campus GEOGER Being part of the buzz atmosphere here in Harwell. at Harwell really helps Geoger It helps us to meet people from stay at the forefront of new eOsphere Limited is a UK company developing innovative other companies and to start useful Geoger delivers environmental data projects primarily using developments and provides satellite earth observation techniques and services. eOsphere’s open-source software and open data, helping clients to generate satellite receiving ground stations provide a turnkey solution for conversations, which in the case solutions to their specific problems. The mission of Geoger is great networking opportunities. EOS Terra, Aqua MODIS, NPP and JPSS data reception, serving of Deimos Space UK has led to a to provide a cost-effective data service (management, provision, Alastair Graham many environmental and hazard monitoring applications: fires analysis and visualisation) primarily to businesses working within new UK Space Agency supported Director and hot-spot detection, smoke and volcanic ash, sea surface project to improve resilience for the environmental sector. Geoger aims to provide the best advice temperature, sediment and chlorophyll, drought monitoring, and solutions, and where possible to ensure this is open-source snow and land cover and biomass. eOsphere ground stations Mongolia herding communities. or open-data led. Geoger works closely with both academic are designed, and built in the UK and installed all around the and commercial clients, to transfer knowledge and create new Nick Walker world: Mongolia, China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, networks wherever possible. Director Ecuador, Greece and Cuba. eOsphere is actively looking to build on its international relationships to further develop Earth Observation services. eosphere.co.uk geoger.co.uk

EXACTEARTH With so many space GMV Harwell has a unique vibrant organisations based at Harwell, environment where space and EUROPE LTD the networking and collaboration non-space organisations exchange Established in 2012, exactEarth Europe Limited (eEE) is the UK possibilities are excellent. GMV is a privately-owned technological business group with ideas and develop business subsidiary of exactEarth Ltd (eE), a Canadian SME. eE is the an international presence. Founded in 1984, GMV offers its opportunities together. leading provider of global maritime vessel data for ship tracking Simon Chesworth solutions, services and products in diverse sectors: aeronautics, and maritime situational awareness solutions. eEE is responsible finance, space, defence, health, cyber security, intelligent Director Sales Europe, Celestino Gomez-Cid for product and business development for eE services related transportation systems, automotive, telecommunications and Sales & Marketing Director of Space to small vessel tracking (exactTrax) and real-time sensor data information technology. retrieval from maritime assets (exactASM). In October 2017 GMV UK started in 2014 with a single person in Harwell eEE, in partnership with the Catapult and others, demonstrated committed to growing the business in the UK and contributing a new global maritime machine-to-machine platform/service to the development of the UK space sector. Now GMV UK has using ‘application specific messaging’ (ASM) as part of an more than 10 employees, several open positions and projects European Space Agency programme. in areas such as: robotics and autonomy, guidance navigation and control systems, development of space mission ground segments, Earth observation data processing and space-based exactearth.com applications in sectors such as forestry, emergency response, gmv.com maritime surveillance, energy and agriculture.

26 27 ESA BIC HARWELL Each year 10 or more start-ups are accepted into the ESA BIC Harwell. These are the current incubatees:

ENTOCYCLE GROUNDDATA HAYBEESEE LACUNA SPACE

Entocycle is transforming the $150 billion animal feed GroundData makes autonomous remote sensors HayBeeSee provides a novel robotics platform for Lacuna Space provides low-cost, simple and reliable industry with an innovative technology that converts for agriculture and other industries. Its solar-powered assisting farmers in their fields. Operated by phone, global connections to sensors and mobile equipment waste treatment costs into new revenue streams. communications systems send data back to a secure and combining satellite data to find unhealthy patches using satellite communications. The Lacuna Network Entocycle combines nature with high-tech engineering cloud-based data warehouse 24 hours a day using a in fields, the platform carries a sprayer, a weed- just works everywhere, and all the time, so customers to produce high-value, insect-based protein feed for variety of wireless technologies. Data is stored securely detecting camera and other devices for mapping. can focus on using data from their sensors or tracking animals, replacing environmentally destructive fish in ‘the cloud’ and can be accessed via a web-based the status of their moving asset. and soya meal. Entocycle is transferring space assets portal or can be exported to other systems. into the everyday, using robotic automation, big data The initial target market of agriculture is to be followed analysis, life support systems and scheduling protocols. by other sectors needing to collect data from remote locations. The system also provides ground truth data for satellite operators and downstream users to calibrate satellite observations.

MODAL OPEN COSMOS ORBITAL WITNESS POWERMARKET

Modal is a real-time software service that connects Driven by the vision of making space accessible Orbital Witness provides historic satellite imagery PowerMarket, a product of SunReign Ltd, has been people and transport through journey intelligence and to anyone, Open Cosmos provides affordable, fast, alongside property, land and ownership data to developed with the support of Oxford University insight. Modal's real-time analytics combine mobile app and simple space missions. Open Cosmos went from assist lawyers in the real estate due diligence process. Innovation and the ESA BIC Harwell. Founded with data with transport data, providing services that improve design to delivery of QB01, its first nanosatellite, in This helps lawyers to work more efficiently with a mission – sustainable energy for all – PowerMarket customer experience and business operations. only four months, followed by a launch and deployment complex information and spot legal property risks uses downstream satellite data and advanced AI to in LEO early April 2017. Open Cosmos is currently earlier in a deal before the client incurs further provide key solar intelligence for decision making by developing the next generation of satellites and end-to- transactional costs, ensuring a better client service individuals, companies and energy utilities. end services for commercial and institutional customers and improved margins for law firms. to be launched in 2018.

RIDERSMATE SATAVIA SERELAY

Ridersmate helps riders of horses, bicycles and Satavia’s mission is to be the world leader in Serelay is providing trusted media capture using motorcycles by constantly tracking their location, digital environmental intelligence on atmospheric camera capture and satellite navigation functionality speed, heading and altitude and sending an alert in contaminants. Technologies from satellite on mobile devices, enabling media to be queried for the event of an accident. eCall Marine extends the Earth observation, numerical weather prediction, authenticity of content and metadata. In practice, product range for rescue at sea, through a new personal aircraft tracking, and prognostic health monitoring, this means that it is possible to understand whether and professional marine safety tracker and automated are combined with machine learning to enhance an image or video has had a single byte of metadata emergency response request unit, using satellite safety, improve efficiency, and reduce costs altered or a single pixel of content changed. esa-bic.org.uk communications to deliver the unique ability to have in aviation. an inbound voice emergency call (eCall) to the unit.

28 29 HELIX Harwell has excellent INSECT RESEARCH Within this nurturing business incubation facilities, environment and with capital TECHNOLOGIES a comprehensive portfolio SYSTEMS investment the company Helix Technologies is developing a range of high-performance, of laboratory space and Insect Research Systems Ltd is developing APOLLO: continues to go from strength ceramic-based antennas for use in a wide range of demanding a bespoke solution that will enable the global hospitality telecommunications and satnav/GNSS applications. The test equipment. industry to reproducibly and accurately monitor for the to strength. antennas out-perform incumbent antenna technologies and presence of bed bug infestations. Insect Research Systems’ John Yates Jason Littler are particularly suited to applications where there is a need near real-time monitoring system can be used to rapidly Managing Director CEO for precise positioning and downward pressure on device screen premises and will be quicker, less subjective, more size, weight and power, for example the Internet of Things, accurate and more affordable than a manual inspection. autonomous vehicles, drone delivery platforms, personal body- APOLLO is based on years of practical pest control experience worn devices and machine-to-machine communications. and know-how of developing instruments for planetary and solar systems exploration, including ESA’s comet-chasing Rosetta mission.

helixtechnologies.co.uk insectresearchsystems.com

HONEYWELL Access to the heart of the KAYSER SPACE The growth in the near UK space community through future of the space commercial the Harwell Campus puts us in sector, linked to the life sciences Honeywell is a Fortune 100 software-industrial company that regular contact with the innovative Kayser Space, recently established in the UK, brings a 30-year sector, makes Harwell a unique delivers technology solutions for aerospace and automotive, and heritage in science payloads and subsystems built up by parent control technologies for buildings and homes and performance customers and collaborators company Kayser Italia. Kayser has a longstanding and successful place to develop partnerships materials globally. As a major supplier to the global space we need to grow our business. experience in the development of space systems, both as prime and new business opportunities. industry, Honeywell drives innovation and offers leading contractor and subcontractor. The experience obtained with products for radio frequency (RF) payloads such as ferrite Chris Bee different carriers such as the Space Shuttle and SpaceX, the David Zolesi switches, beamhopping solutions, multiplexers, isolators, Customer Business Manager Bion, Foton, Soyuz and Resource spacecraft, as well as with Managing Director circulators, power switching electronics, tracking, telemetry different platforms, like the International Space Station (ISS) and and command and payload data downlinking. Honeywell is LEO (low Earth orbit) satellites, have enhanced a multidisciplinary proud to be able to claim zero equipment failures in space. engineering know-how in physics, electronics, software, mechanical and thermal design. In life sciences, the company has a longstanding and successful experience in experiments and payloads. Furthermore, experiments and facilities have been honeywell.com developed in the field of human physiology and many payloads kayserspace.co.uk for a variety of physical sciences experiments and applications.

HUDUMA At Harwell Campus we KEIT Harwell has given us access have access to groups of amazing to world-class testing facilities industry experts, which helps us in a uniquely collaborative Huduma Limited is a young and ambitious emerging technologies achieve our goals. Keit Ltd has taken a promising space technology and launched environment where we are rubbing consultancy based at the Harwell Campus. Huduma has over five it into the global marketplace. The Keit IRmadillo™ FTIR shoulders with experts in optics, years’ experience helping businesses and project consortiums Paulette Elliott spectrometer uses light and optics to analyse chemical reactions to take their innovations to market with sustainable business and Managing Director in real time and is shockproof, compact and low maintenance. lasers and technical engineering. services models, providing collaborative commercial support and All the attributes that made it ideal to survive space travel now practical hands-on project delivery. Examples of projects include help commercial organisations monitor industrial production Dan Wood developing remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS)/commercial processes, such as the production of biofuels, chemicals, CEO drones for intelligent parcel delivery, connected and autonomous petroleum products, beverages, and pharmaceuticals. Started vehicles (CAV) and Internet of Things (IoT) with SatComs. in 2012 at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire, Keit provides solutions through improved analytical Huduma is a keen supporter of the Satellite Applications Catapult technology to companies around the globe. With backing SPIN programme for summer interns, and has implemented a from STFC, this innovative instrument enables manufacturing graduates programme, providing an opportunity to gain work industries to make faster decisions for reduced waste and better experience in a collaborative business environment. huduma.co.uk resource management. keit.co.uk

30 31 LOCKHEED Harwell provides a great MIRICO Harwell is MIRICO’s opportunity to engage with small, birthplace and it has provided MARTIN medium and large companies who, excellent facilities, access to skill Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company like us, are passionate about MIRICO develops state-of-the-art instruments for environmental sets and knowledge resulting in that employs approximately 100,000 people worldwide and and industrial monitoring, having originated from the world- is principally engaged in the research, design, development, growing the space sector to benefit leading laser spectroscopy research group at RAL Space. MIRICO’s rapid growth over the manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced the UK economy. The molecular sensing systems designed for space proved to last two years. technology systems, products and services. Lockheed Martin be much more robust, precise and compact than those currently has built more interplanetary spacecraft than any other company. Patrick Wood available on the market, leading to the inception of MIRICO, Mohammed Belal Systems built by Lockheed Martin and its partners are delivering Director of International Business Development, with the purpose of developing these systems into products Business Development Director global communications, weather forecasting, space exploration Lockheed Martin Space for ‘Earth’ applications. Over the last two years MIRICO has and national security. Headquartered in London, Lockheed developed systems for environmental monitoring of oil and gas Martin UK employs approximately 1,700 people across 16 key facilities to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, real time sites from Culdrose in Cornwall to Faslane in Scotland and and highly precise monitoring of semiconductor fabrication to Harwell in between. improve product yield and instruments for global environmental monitoring networks. lockheedmartin.com mirico.co.uk

MDA Harwell is the emerging NEPTEC UK LTD The Harwell Campus has been centre for UK space technology an ideal environment for fostering and application innovation, as such the growth of our company. MDA develops and delivers advanced surveillance it is an ideal location for a world Neptec UK was established in October 2014 on the Harwell and intelligence solutions, defense and maritime systems, Campus. The company has a staff of 18 people. Its offices are Mike Kearns radar geospatial imagery, space robotics, satellite antennas, leading company like MDA to build located in the Atlas building where it also has two labs for building Managing Director and communication subsystems. MDA’s global reach its business. and testing equipment. The company designs, builds and tests and heritage, serving international markets with innovative flight hardware for a variety of customers. and iconic solutions for space and terrestrial applications, is David Kenyon Its current products include: unparalleled. MDA is committed to delivering innovation and Managing Director, MDA UK value in next-generation space exploration, Earth observation, – A landing LIDAR sensor for the next mission to the Moon space awareness, and defense systems. The new space – A meteorology instrument for ESA’s Proba 3 Mission economy is based on agility, rapid technology development and harnessing capital to turn commitments into reality, – IR camera developed for the UK Space Agency generating benefits for humanity as well as a return on investment. MDA’s 1,900 future-focused employees are working together to turn ideas into the products, services, mdacorporation.com neptecuk.com systems, and solutions that make a better world.

MEVITAE Harwell’s support network ORBITAL The comprehensive is brilliant. We’ve met with so support from the UK government many people within various sectors, MICROSYSTEMS and related agencies made the MeVitae was founded by the multi-award winning team, from maritime to microarrays, Orbital Micro Systems (OMS) is a US-based provider of decision to set up shop at Vivek Doraiswamy (computer scientist) and Riham Satti innovative weather intelligence solutions that leverage small (computational neuroscientist) during their time at Oxford and learnt. Perfect environment for satellite technology, advanced weather observation techniques, Harwell an easy one. University. The team has an effective advisory board, with collaboration and idea generation. and powerful data analytics tools. Through OMS’ services, William Hosack members from Microsoft UK HQ and the University of aviation, maritime, agriculture, and insurance customers can use CEO Oxford. The approach uses technology developed for space, Riham Satti highly accurate weather data to optimise operations, increase neuroscience and big data to make it easier than ever for Co-Founder and CEO safety margins, improve profitability, and enhance consumer people to find their perfect job, and businesses to make the satisfaction. OMS selected Harwell as its primary operations perfect hire. MeVitae joined the European Space Agency BIC in and business development hub for serving customer needs February 2015, and graduated 2017, as the first incubatee within throughout the UK, Europe, Asia and Africa. After evaluating the HR space. MeVitae is working with Satellite Applications several options in other locations, OMS was impressed with Catapult to apply this capability to the space industry. many advantages associated with Harwell, including the facility’s emergence as a leader in commercial space technology, its mevitae.com world-class facilities and talent, and easy access to major orbitalmicro.com commercial markets across EMEA.

32 33 OXFORD SPACE Harwell is an excellent REZATEC LTD Being located at the heart of place to establish a space start- the UK’s Space Cluster has proven SYSTEMS up with the flexibility to to be a key factor in the success Oxford Space Systems (OSS) is an award-winning, early stage accommodate growth. The Campus Since its inception in 2012, Rezatec has been headquartered of Rezatec and its fast-track growth space technology business that’s developing a new generation in Harwell and has since grown its business to an international of deployable antennas and products that are lighter, less is all about connections and organisation with customers around the world. Rezatec’s over the last five years. complex and lower cost than those in current commercial networking; from onsite technical proprietary algorithms process big data inputs from satellite, Philip Briscoe demand. Venture capital-backed OSS was founded on the airborne and ground sensors to predict outcomes for key expertise through to investor Chief Operating Officer Harwell Campus in late 2013, starting with a hot desk in the engagement opportunities. assets across a range of industry verticals. Users access Rezatec Satellite Applications Catapult. Oxford Space Systems has since analytics, generated using advanced machine learning techniques, expanded into an office and is about to have its own custom Mike Lawton through a subscription model to the Rezatec geospatial portal. facility in the Zephyr Building in Q1, 2018. With desk space for Founder & CEO Rezatec enables yield optimisation for commodity crops in the up to 55 staff, a light industrial assembly area and one of the agribusiness sector, and identifies harvestable inventory in the largest cleanrooms on campus, OSS will future proof its planned forestry sector and pipe bursts and subsidence movements in expansion over the next few years. the infrastructure domain. Rezatec users include major utilities, agribusinesses, large forestry groups, consulting partners and oxford.space governments worldwide. rezatec.com

PRINTECH CIRCUIT Being at Harwell gives us the RHEA GROUP Harwell is a crucial location opportunity to speak and meet with that provides excellent access to LABORATORIES LTD new potential customers and we the other members of the Space PCL produces products based around printed circuit board really enjoy the networking events RHEA Group is an engineering company offering services Cluster, including SMEs and non- techniques, including antennas for Cubesats. As suppliers to and technologies in the fields of space engineering, security, the space industry for over 25 years, PCL has been involved that expand our understanding of and cloud/edge computing in Europe and North America. space organisations. in various projects including the Gaia mission, partnering with the new emerging space market. In Harwell, RHEA Group is leading the development of the Alastair Pidgeon Teledyne e2v and Airbus in the manufacture of the most sensitive Drought and Flood Mitigation Service (DFMS) project funded Director, Business Development camera ever flown. The experienced team can help design, Reece Bayliss by the UK Space Agency’s International Partnership Programme Products & Projects manufacture and test products in PCL’s production facility in Business Development (IPP). RHEA is also developing the mission control system Essex. Current space customers include Airbus, Teledyne e2v, for Astroscale’s innovative ELSA-D debris removal satellite Fraunhofer and DHV, producing a wide range of circuitry including which will be operated from the Satellite Applications Catapult flexible, flex-rigid, metal-backed, controlled frequency and high in Harwell. RHEA has also led a HealthTec project on pollution reliability designs. With some exciting space projects already monitoring combining innovative sensors, satellite data and secured for the next two years, PCL expects space to account smart street furniture. for about a third of its turnover. pcbs.space rheagroup.com

REACTION ENGINES Being at heart of the Space S&AO LTD The available support, as Cluster at Harwell with the industry well as the extensive networking connections and facilities it offers, opportunities, have significantly Reaction Engines is a UK-based company designing and is key to the continued growth With the brand ‘visionAIR-Klugmann’, the innovation company helped the business development. developing the technologies for a new class of innovative S&AO Ltd is rewriting the atmospheric observations sector and success of our development hypersonic propulsion system. This includes an ultra-lightweight with new solutions. S&AO is an ESA BIC Harwell alumnus, and Dirk Klugmann heat exchanger, capable of cooling airstreams from over 1,000°C and technology breakthroughs. visionAIR-Klugmann combines scientifically established methods Director to -150°C in less than 1/20th of a second. Developed for Reaction with latest components into sensor technique, providing affordable Engines’ high speed SABRE engines, it will enable aircraft to Paul Davey and reliable operational measurements. This enables organisations fly at over five times the speed of sound in the atmosphere and Head of Business Development using meteorological data to optimise their operations, save allow more affordable space launch vehicles to be built. Reaction money and prevent the loss of lives. S&AO Ltd offers bespoke Engines offers a unique and extensive range of capabilities, from remote sensing systems designed and built to order, including propulsion systems and advanced heat exchanger design and cloud radar, radar wind profiler, LIDAR aerosol and trace gases, development, through to advanced manufacturing, precision and passive systems utilising RF/millimetre waves and light. machining and fabrication.

reactionengines.co.uk visionair-klugmann.com

34 35 SCI-TECH (POB) LTD Having developed our SPACE-EYES The Harwell Space Cluster tracking system in the ESA BIC helps us leverage fractional Harwell, we recognised the satellite ownership. Sci-Tech operates a consultancy, advising on all aspects of importance of being part of the Space-Eyes delivers geospatial analytics using synthetic software development and project lifecycle, and designing aperture radar (SAR) satellite and AIS satellite data with related Capt. Jatin S. Bains and implementing complex systems, one-off applications, and Harwell Space Cluster to engage non-spatial maritime data. The diverse challenges addressed CEO embedded code. We have provided embedded systems and with other growing companies on in the maritime domain include national and regional maritime software to major companies such as Qinetiq, BAe Systems, the Campus. security, block (supply) chain security and energy transit Marconi and ICL, as part of projects ranging from military flagship security. Space-Eyes' proprietary geospatial analytics platform CCIS, aircraft simulation, radar and communications systems Peter Hall CATE™, with embedded artificial intelligence, is delivered as a to industrial process control. Managing Director subscription model, allowing users to customize their business intelligence online in real time with 50+ integrated data sources Sci-Tech is currently developing their award-winning tracking for context. and telemetry system for the marine market, but with spin-off applications for remote and/or hazardous environments.

scitechsystems.co.uk space-eyes.co.uk

SIHEALTH LTD We have been continually SPOTTITT There aren’t many places supported by the creative and where in the morning you are stimulating research environment discussing bugs with your siHealth couples satellite remote sensing and personal at Harwell Campus, through its Spottitt Ltd is a Harwell-based start-up who are experts at developers and in the afternoon diagnostics, driving end-users from ‘data-information’ to providing cloud-based, cost effective, fully automated, complex the ‘healthy best decision’ by mobile-health systems. siHealth HealthTec and Space Clusters, Earth observation and geographic information system analyses. talking to the Chilean Ambassador leverages its know-how in space and satellite areas to implement enabling siHealth’s disruptive Services currently include the provision of land cover, land about opportunities for space innovative decision support systems for healthcare, thanks to ideas to rapidly become roughness, building recognition, and greenfield analyses for applications in Chile. high-performance IT solutions, opening new perspectives to product solutions. the optimal positioning of solar and wind installations. 2018 will doctors and pharmacists in professional diagnostics. see Spottitt transition from being a co-funded R&D project to Lucy Kennedy a commercial service, initially for the renewable energy sector Co-founder and CEO The capability to extract increasingly deep insight knowledge Dr Emilio Simeone with plans for service developments tailored to two additional from data by exploiting both machine learning techniques and CEO sectors by end 2018. By end 2018 Spottitt expects to comprise big data analytics, enables a more effective decision support four FTEs working out of their own office in Harwell. to healthcare operators as well as to pharmacological companies active in disease prevention, diagnostics and telehealth sectors. The recently launched product, HappySun, is a satellite-based sun photoprotection integrated system, supporting healthy sihealth.co.uk spottitt.com lifestyle and skin disease prevention in real-time.

SKYTEK The Harwell Space Cluster TELESPAZIO VEGA UK The Harwell Space Cluster offers a unique gateway to the UK has provided an important catalyst space sector and affords Skytek the for the growth of the sector. SkyTek is an award-winning software solutions company opportunity to build key business With a pedigree in space technology stretching back over specialising in the creation of innovative solutions for a range 40 years, Telespazio VEGA UK (TVUK) is an experienced Marco Folino of complex and demanding industries including the space relationships and to capitalise and consulting, technology, engineering, space operations and CEO industry. The key to SkyTek’s success is taking the technology strengthen its commercial service development business. A subsidiary of Telespazio, it has developed for space and applying it to other sectors, advantage in the space domain. a 67/33% joint venture between Leonardo and Thales, including aviation and marine, together with applications in TVUK has built its first-class reputation by exploiting technology security and crisis management, insurance and compliance. Dr Sarah Bourke developments in Earth observation and satellite navigation Since its formation in 1997 SkyTek has grown into a world- CEO and communications, pioneering innovative services in space class software solution provider developing solutions that operations and applications. Using the broader capabilities are intelligent, platform-independent and adaptable. of the Telespazio Group, TVUK provides novel solutions to the remotest regions of the globe.

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36 37 TERATECH The Harwell Campus provides VIASAT UK incredible networking opportunities COMPONENTS for small companies. Teratech Components Limited produces a wide range of Viasat is a global communications company that delivers air-bridged Schottky diodes for THz frequency multipliers, Byron Alderman increasingly capable and market-leading satellite-based services to mixers and detectors. Teratech’s diodes are used in a variety CEO consumers and demanding defence and government customers. of commercial and space applications and will be a critical These services deliver high-quality, secure, affordable, and fast component in the next generation of metrological satellites connections to impact people’s lives anywhere. Viasat’s high- for Europe, meteorological Operational Satellite-Second capacity satellites meet the growing need for bandwidth and Generation (MetOp-SG). the company has committed to a future global constellation of satellites, each providing 1TB of throughput. Viasat continues to use satellite communications for innovation; working in partnership with the Scottish Ambulance Service, NHS Highland and the University of Aberdeen, Viasat has equipped five ambulances with satellite communications and integrated ultrasound scanners to provide essential services in areas lockheedmartin.com of no mobile coverage. viasat.com

THALES The National Satellite Test VIDRONA Facility planned to open in 2020 will ALENIA SPACE be an important resource for all UK Thales Alenia Space’s UK subsidiary, established in 2014, upstream space companies, adding Vidrona (a European Space Agency incubated business) is a is proud of its world-leading design, test, integration and precision predictive asset management company that utilises manufacturing capabilities at three sites in the UK: Bristol, to the RAL Space R100 facility to data collected using sensors on various automated platforms Harwell and Belfast. It is a leading British player in propulsion help the UK reach 10% share of like UAVs, ground robots, satellites, and even mobile phones. systems, satellite subsystems and system design studies. the global space market by 2030. Vidrona gathers raw data, processes and analyses it using Thales Alenia Space also deploys AIT (assembly, integration, proprietary computer vision, artificial intelligence and machine testing) capabilities in the United Kingdom, along with Ben Olivier learning algorithms; and return actionable reports to the client considerable expertise in satellite systems, which will enable UK CEO on an SaaS based software platform, vSense®. The product it to act as prime contractor for British-built satellites and also allows clients’ operations managers to better track their constellations in the near future. The company created over maintenance activity, by incorporating photos of maintenance 100 new jobs between 2015 and 2016 in the UK and currently requirements, allowing algorithms to analyse these images has around 170 employees. This impressive growth is set to for fixes. Clients include renewable energy generation, power continue, giving it the full range of skills and capabilities needed transmission, oil and gas, and water companies. to make an important contribution to the space industry’s thalesaleniaspace.com vidrona.com future in the UK, based on game-changing technologies.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE WAVELENGTH Being located at Harwell means that we are able to position LONDON (UCL) CENTRE ELECTRONICS LTD the companies we represent Wavelength Electronics Ltd is a Manufacturer’s Representative right at the heart of the UK Company offering seven Principals, each of which has a long FOR SPACE MEDICINE and successful heritage in providing frequency generation and space community. Centre for Space Medicine (CSM) is part of the Mullard Space passive components into the spaceflight market. The office on Jeremy Biggs Science Laboratory (MSSL), University College London (UCL), campus is evolving into a showroom where engineers can come Sales Director established at Harwell to connect the space industry with the and discuss what they are looking for. Then Wavelength can help latest developments in space medicine. The Centre brings them find the exact part they require, whether that is a standard together MSSL’s technological and analytical capabilities, and part or one that is customised to meet their full requirements. All general space awareness with UCL’s strengths in biomedicine. data sheets and product information can be found on the principal The CSM focuses on both the facilitation of human space manufacturers’ websites. exploration and the improvement of quality of life on Earth through open innovation and cross-disciplinary application of techniques and technology. The Centre is inherently interdisciplinary in nature, involving the biomedical, cognitive/robotics engineering, information technology and space science domains. ucl.ac.uk/mssl/space-medicine wavelengthelectronic.co.uk

38 39 LIFE AT HARWELL HARWELL TOMORROW

The Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, 16 miles south of Oxford, covers 710 acres with 5,500 people MAJOR FUTURE and has embarked upon an EXPANSION ambitious expansion plan with 5.5 million square feet of current PROJECTS planned development and 1.5 million • Expanded National Satellite square feet to be added by 2025. Test Facilities This will provide working and research space for • Rosalind Franklin Institute organisations and will be supported by hundreds of new • Planning application for homes for people working on site, together with improved residential: hundreds of new site amenities. homes to rent and buy, enabling people to work and live here During 2018, planning permission will be sought for • University Quarter: a planned 500,000 square feet of new offices and labs to support further 200,000 square feet the growth of existing Harwell organisations and to • Enlarged Space Cluster: enable SMEs to major multinationals to locate new up to 200,000 square feet operations at Harwell. The ambition of the Harwell Campus expansion is matched only by that of the many brilliant entrepreneurs, businesses, researchers and scientists who call Harwell home. NEW AMENITIES

• A second hotel • A new gym • A new café • Additional shops

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The best way to appreciate the To arrange a visit please contact Dr Joanna Hart, breadth and depth of the facilities Harwell Space Cluster Development Manager and opportunities at the Harwell Space Cluster is to visit the Harwell Campus. Harwell Management Office Atlas Centre, Fermi Avenue, Harwell Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX Travelling to and from Harwell Campus is Harwell Campus has its own bus station with General enquiries: + 44(0) 1235 250091 easy, just off the A34, just 16 miles from direct links to Didcot Parkway for trains to London Oxford, offering easy access to the UK’s two (train takes about 45 minutes), Bristol and Reading. largest cities – London and Birmingham – The Science Shuttle regularly takes employees via the M40 and M4 motorways. Less than an and visitors directly to and from Oxford. Other hour's drive from London Heathrow Airport. links mean Harwell is directly connected with local towns such as Wantage, Abingdon and Newbury and local villages.

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