Launch Vehicles & Propulsion companies in United Kingdom

Glasgow PocketQube satellite company — designs, builds and launches PocketQubes and brokers rideshare launches for customers.

British launch startup at Harwell Campus — developing fully reusable rockets and novel propulsion for responsive small-satellite launch.

Welsh near-space company — operates stratospheric balloon platforms for high-altitude pseudo-satellite missions and near-space testing of space hardware.

British spacecraft propulsion startup — develops compact plasma thrusters using solid metal propellant for small satellites.

Develops the Prime rocket for dedicated small satellite launches from European spaceports. Most of its UK assets were acquired by Portugal's Omnidea.

UK propulsion developer — tests hybrid rocket engines and is building a Direct Fusion Drive plasma rocket at its Bletchley facility.

Scottish launch vehicle developer — building the Skyrora XL orbital rocket to provide sovereign UK launch, with engine test sites around the UK.

Welsh space startup — develops cloud-based spacecraft mission design software, payload interface units and small chemical propulsion systems.

British spacecraft propulsion startup — builds electrothermal water-based thrusters for CubeSats and small satellites.

London space consultancy — provides technical consultancy, mission management and launch brokerage, having placed over 80 small satellites on launches.

Southampton space engineering firm — develops and tests electric propulsion systems, hollow cathodes and CubeSat thrusters; part of Aerospazio group.

Develops revolutionary SABRE propulsion technology enabling single-stage-to-orbit and hypersonic flight.

Scottish spaceport on Unst, Shetland — vertical launch site on the Lamba Ness peninsula, formerly Shetland Space Centre (renamed 2021).

Welsh aerospace test site at Llanbedr airfield — designated candidate UK horizontal launch spaceport with its own restricted airspace for flight trials.

UK horizontal-launch spaceport at Cornwall Airport Newquay — first UK spaceport licensee (2022), hosting space and drone operations.

Scottish regional space cluster for the North Highlands and Moray — building a launch and tracking ecosystem around Space Hub Sutherland.

UK regional space cluster at Westcott Venture Park, Buckinghamshire — focused on propulsion testing, in-orbit servicing and 5G testbeds.