Our facilities

SpaceCraft is based at the Surrey Space Centre and provides access to its high quality space engineering facilities, which were upgraded to support this initiative, to enterprises which would otherwise find it difficult to access specialist support to enable space-related prototyping and manufacturing.

Available facilities

Air bearing optical table

Docking facilities

Functional testing facilities including simulators and tables to test docking and a vibration table which simulates launch stresses.

Ground station

Ground station

A ground station for overseeing and managing missions and for transmitting and receiving data.

Spherical helmholtz coil facility

Helmholtz coil facility

Our helmholtz coil facility comprises three pairs of parallel electromagnetic coils which can be used to create a nearly uniform magnetic field.

Propulsion test facility

Propulsion test facilities

Numerous vacuum chambers of different sizes assigned for electric propulsion development.

Thermal chamber

Thermal chamber

A walk-in thermal chamber capable of transitioning between -30°C to +70°C.

Hiring costs

When organisations first engage with SpaceCraft, the facilities are provided at minimal cost. Commercial charging is gradually introduced in progressive stages, depending on usage and project maturity. This model has been adopted to lower the barriers to entry and recognises that co-location of enterprises with academic staff and students naturally encourages more industry-academic collaboration and innovation.

Get in touch

If you would like access to the facilities then please get in touch with our project management team to get started.

Spacecraft brochure

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