Manufacturing & Materials companies in United Kingdom

Leicester engineering company — designs structures and mechanisms for spacecraft, payloads and ground support equipment and develops in-space manufacturing.

Produces titanium, tantalum and rare-earth alloy powders using proprietary electrochemical processing — space-grade metal powders used in 3D-printed satellite structures and the…

British spacecraft antenna maker — designs and manufactures deployable antennas and reflectors for SAR, telecom and IoT satellites.

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

British materials company — makes Vantablack carbon-nanotube coatings, including space-qualified versions for optical baffles and instruments.

Chelmsford sensor manufacturer, part of Teledyne — designs and fabricates CCD, CMOS and infrared image sensors for space science and Earth observation missions.

London in-space manufacturing startup — develops autonomous microgravity units to crystallise protein drugs for self-injectable cancer treatments.

British in-space manufacturing startup — provides miniaturised autonomous satellite laboratories for in-orbit experiments and low-cost de-orbit solutions.

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

London NewSpace startup — develops miniaturised in-orbit laboratories for testing and qualifying advanced materials in the space environment.

Welsh in-space manufacturing startup — develops the reusable ForgeStar satellite to produce semiconductor materials in orbit.