Building the frontline service to safeguard all off-earth operations.
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Didcot, England OX11 0, GB
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2024 SoCal-UK Space Accelerator Demo Day in El Segundo! Hosted by yours truly! 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🌴 🌌 Pitching startups - Agtelligence ANGOKA Lodestar Space Lumi Space SecondStar Space Solar SAIF Systems Universal Atmosphere Processing Frontier Space Technologies
If you're on the US West Coast this week and want to learn about what we're doing for #spacesecurity - reach out to our CEO Neil!
It’s good to be back on the West Coast! 🇺🇸 I’ll be in SF for Silicon Valley Space Week #SVSW tomorrow 21st and in LA with Mandala Space Ventures from 22nd-27th - who should I meet? Leon Alkalai Lee Rosen Curt Blake Christie Capper Jonatan H. Luther-Bergquist Mick Halsband Alexander Lange Alberto Cresto Brian Holt Jakub Jecminek Thomas Santini #spaceexploration #spaceforce #spacesecurity #spacesustainability #rapidresponse #scalability #partnerships #robotics #SVSW
Thanks Michael Staab 🇺🇸 we’re #hiring so if you've got what it takes 🚀check out our open roles: https://lnkd.in/erGryfx9
Sending this job opportunity out to my network again on behalf of my mates Neil Buchanan and Thomas Santini at Lodestar Space. Neil and Thomas are still on the hunt for an experienced and talented systems engineer with spaceflight experience to lead development on their rapid, in-space response system in the UK. I cannot speak highly enough of this team and the challenging problem they are tackling. Reach out to me, Neil, or Thomas if you have any questions!
Initial Vacuum Testing Campaign Complete! 🎉 🛠️ We’ve just wrapped up an extraordinary week of vacuum testing at the 🏴 University of Glasgow. Over four intensive days, our team rigorously validated and stress-tested our robotic subsystem in a 12m³ chamber, pushing it beyond its limits. The results? Outstanding. Made possible by our partners and the team at the University of Glasgow especially Gilles BAILET, for their unwavering support of the Lodestar Space 👾 mission. We've only just begun with more validation campaigns on the horizon, powered by the 🇬🇧 UK Space Agency’s 🇬🇧 National Space Innovation Programme. 🚀 If you're ready to develop cutting-edge robotics to thrive in the harshest environments on Earth 🌍 and beyond 🚀— join us for the next frontier of space technology and be part of our next testing campaign.✨ If you've got what it takes, check out our open roles: https://job https://lnkd.in/gtYG_a65 #SpaceTech #UKSpaceAgency #NationalSpaceInnovationProgramme #NSIP | Scottish Space Network
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It's (death by) conference season @ Lodestar Space! ⏪ Defence in Space 🇬🇧, ⏪ ESA Industry Days 🇪🇺 🇳🇱 ⏩ Defence Space 🇬🇧 ⏩ Resilience Conference 🇬🇧 ⏩ Future Forces Demo Day 🇬🇧 ⏩ European Defense Tech Summit 🇪🇸 ⏩ Silicon Valley Space Week 🇺🇸 I'm looking to meet people who have strong opinions about space security - if that's you or someone you know, reach out to me - let's solve this together ✊ Defence In Space The Air and Space Power Association (ASPA) Resilience Conference Future Forces Diana Luncă Ashleigh H. Matt Holman Melanie C. Richard Pass Jonatan H. Luther-Bergquist Matt Clifford
🚀 Proud to see Karan Paul Singh Raheja representing the team for the SPIN programme at the UK Space Agency Space-Comm Expo in Glasgow! 🌍 #SPINProgramme #UKSA
MEng Robotics, Mechatronics and Control Systems student at Loughborough University || Engineer at Lodestar Space
Last Wednesday, I had the privilege of showcasing my work as part of the SPIN programme at the Space-Comm Expo in Glasgow—a significant milestone that marks the end of a challenging but incredibly rewarding placement year. This year has been an unforgettable journey, and I’d like to take a moment to reflect and express my gratitude to the incredible people who made it all possible. ⛏️ - My journey began across the globe in Japan, where I worked Asteroid Mining Corporation Ltd at the Space Robotics Lab, Tohoku University. I was tasked with developing an electronic speed controller for a brushless DC motor, an experience that honed my electronics skills. A huge thank you to Mickael Laine, Ph.D. for the opportunity, and to Marc-Lorenz Döhmer and Arthur Candalot for their support and guidance. 🚀 - Following that, I spent 10 months at MBDA in the Guidance, Navigation, and Control Department. I worked on maturing experimental navigation technologies and developed an analysis tool for the terminal stage of flight. This role deepened my knowledge of MATLAB, Simulink, and missile aerodynamics. I’m incredibly grateful to Stephen Kendrick and Iain Cade for their guidance, and to Tony Browne and Steve Hocter for being outstanding mentors. 🦾 - Finally, I completed a summer placement at Lodestar Space as part of the SPIN programme, in collaboration with the UKSA. My role involved developing soft-capture robotics for On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing (OSAM). This project required me to apply everything I had learned so far, from mechanical design to electronics and control systems. I’d like to thank Neil Buchanan and Thomas Santini for giving me the opportunity to contribute to such an exciting field. This year pushed me beyond my limits but also opened doors to new opportunities and personal growth. There were highs and lows, but the experience was invaluable in shaping my skills and mindset as I now head into my master’s year. Thank you to everyone who made this year such an extraordinary experience—I couldn’t have done it without you.
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What a fantastic Satuccino event at Defence In Space in London! A huge thank you to our brilliant speakers for sharing insights on a range of topics from AI and satellite data to the repair and protection of space-based infrastructure. Your expertise made it a truly inspiring session! Missed out? Don’t worry – the next Satuccino is just around the corner on 2nd October in Harwell! 🚀 If you can’t join us in Harwell, you can still be part of the conversation in person at Daresbury or Adastral Space Enterprise Labs, or join us online. Register here: https://ow.ly/xjcv50TlIPN RADIATION ANALYSIS SERVICES LIMITED | SuperSharp | Horizon Technologies | SPACESHIPS LIMITED | Atheras Analytics | Lodestar Space | EECL - European Engineering & Consultancy Ltd | andoka Consultancy | LMO | Astro Dynamic Ltd | Stars Edge Ltd | Optimal Cities | Openarc Space | Filtronic | Planet #Satuccino #SpaceInnovation #Networking #Harwell #Daresbury #Adastral
We’re finishing off an exciting week for the team at Farnborough International Airshow today - come say hello at the UK Space Agency stand and learn about what we’re doing to safeguard everything we do off earth 🛰️. Thank you to UKspace for the opportunity 🇬🇧!
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Today we’re ecstatic to announce the close of our $2.5M pre-seed round at Lodestar Space. Co-led by deep-tech VC funds: Inflection.xyz and Lunar Ventures, with participation from Charlie Songhurst, Zehan Wang, Mehdi Ghissassi, and non-dilutive funding from the UK Space Agency 🇬🇧. Thank you to Alexander, Jonatan, Mick, and Alberto for bringing the rocket fuel to our journey, and thank you to Aria @ TechCrunch for covering our announcement. We’ll use this new funding to build the technology to safeguard the space infrastructure that underpins our democracies and ways of life. If you share this mission, Thomas Santini and I are actively recruiting global talent to our team of aces for both engineering and commercial positions. The next five years will define the future of space security - join us to do the most impactful work of your career yet. Matt Clifford Alice Bentinck Mike Phillips Jonny Clifford Curt Blake Lee Rosen Angelo Cangelosi David Balson Rockman Law Craig Brown Esther R. Jakub Jecminek Kiran de Silva Shiven Chandarana Abigail Hoover Karan Paul Singh Raheja
Huge thanks to the entire team at ESA Business Incubation Centre United Kingdom for being some of the first to see the potential of what we’re building and backing us from the very start 🚀 Excited to be working closer with RAL Space and Harwell Science and Innovation Campus!
Incredible news for Lodestar Space who were recently featured in The Times article on startups backed by the UK Space Agency. “The space sector is moving away from ‘launch and forget’,” Santini said. “But being able to inspect, repair and protect spacecraft is a huge challenge because we need to develop the equipment that can move around and ‘see’ and also safely hold things in space.” Read the full The Times article here ⬇ https://lnkd.in/eejiV4tY Thomas Santini | Neil Buchanan | STFC Business & Innovation | ESA Commercialisation Gateway | UK Space Agency