Space Mission UK is a series of entrepreneur-led missions specifically designed for the UK's top space and satellite application startups. This lookbook covers the ten companies taking part in the third mission to San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Los Angeles. For more information: http://spacemissionuk.org Space Mission UK is supported by Innovate UK and produced by trade mission specialists, Chinwag - http://chinwag.com

1. www.innovateuk.gov.uk #spacemissionuk

2. Space Mission UK ​is an exciting programme
of entrepreneurs’ missions for the UK’s
leading space and satellite application startups.
These missions, supported by Innovate UK
and Department for International Trade
saw two groups visit the USA in 2015
This first mission which visited Utah, LA and Silicon Valley from​
8-­14 August 2015, was specifically designed for the UK’s leading
entrepreneurs in the space & nanosatellite applications sector, to
interact with world-leading investors and potential collaborators. It
visited leading companies such as Virgin Galactic and Lockheed
Martin, as well as NASA.
The second mission, which took place from 15-20 November 2015,
focused on the wider sector including satellite applications and
attended SpaceCom Expo in Houston.
Space Mission 3, travelling to California from 5-11 November 2016,
will have a strong focus on investment, and is specifically designed
for the UK’s leading entrepreneurs working in New Space verticals.
The missions are designed to help the companies build relationships
with the leading players in the US space and satellite sector including
government, corporates, investors, startups and scientists through
meetings, company visits, networking events and briefings.
More info http://spacemissionuk.org/
Introduction to Space Mission UK
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3. Satellite applications embrace almost every
area of life, delivering valuable services for business,
government and the public alike. Every day, people
watch TV, catch the latest weather forecasts, drive to
new destinations and meet in different places. From satellite
TV to smartphone maps, all are powered by space technology.
But how could food supply, the energy sector or the ways our
cities are run benefit from the same technology?
That’s where Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency, comes in.
The UK has a wide range of businesses and talent leading this
charge and we provide them with funding and connections to get
those ideas off the drawing board and into the marketplace. Those
businesses have also set up an extensive support network of their
own around the Satellite Applications Catapult, the government
backed technology and innovation facility dedicated to the
exploitation of satellite derived data.
Investors often view the space sector in terms of science,
not economic returns. So Innovate UK and its Satellite
Applications Catapult seek to show investors the
significant investment opportunities available. We also
work closely with the innovators, helping them focus on
how end users can benefit from their technologies, and
create new profitable markets for their ideas.
Commerce:
New Space Verticals
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4. Innovate UK is the UK’s innovation agency.
It works with people, companies and partner
organisations to find and drive the science and
technology innovations that will grow the UK
economy - delivering productivity, new jobs and
exports and keeping the UK globally competitive
in the race for future prosperity. For further
information visit www.gov.uk/innovateuk
Innovate UK supports key events known as
entrepreneur ‘missions’ run in partnership with
Department for International Trade.
Missions involve the pick of innovative and
often early-stage UK companies in Innovate
UK priority areas or themes including space,
digital, healthcare or clean technology travelling
to countries strong in innovation and enterprise,
such as the US, China and Brazil. While there
the companies have the opportunity to make
new connections and meet potential investors,
suppliers and customers and grow their
business internationally.
About Innovate UK
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5. Archangel Aerospace
The team at Archangel Aerospace have worked on HAPS
since 2002 and, since the company was founded in
2010, they have conducted more HAPS operations than
anyone else. They are pivoting from supplying consulting
expertise to supplying a large scale solution.
Only 10% of the data generated by earth observation today
can be transmitted to the ground. This will drop to <1% with
new sensors and imaging satellites. The data transmission
demands are growing exponentially and current supply is
limited by the physics of radios and the available spectrum.
Laser communications are limited by cloud.
Archangel Aerospace will fly laser communications in
the stratosphere, above the weather, to 10x the data
downloadable. They have developed a prototype laser terminal
and tested it on low altitude drones this year. With offices
located at the Harwell campus and Oxford they have access
to the clean rooms, manufacturing and prototyping facilities
required to execute the project and our employees have years
of experience in the aerospace industry (aircraft, spacecraft
and ground segment).
Development Stage: Early stage for transition to service
and technology development, established consulting business
and contacts.
Sector: Space and UAV
Website: archangelaerospace.com
Twitter: @archangelaero
Email: d.sola@archangelaerospace.com
Tel: +44 7791 691 149
Mission Companies
Daniel Sola
CEO
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6. Atout Process Ltd
Established in 2010, run by a proven management team,
Atout Process Limited is a microSME with a track record of
profitable growth, based around innovative non-invasive
electromagnetic measurement techniques that allow us to
see inside pipes, into vessels, through opaque barriers and
weigh without touching.
Atout core technologies include Electrical Capacitance
Tomography (ECT), Magnetic Inductance Tomography
(MIT), Electrical Velocity Tomography (EVT), and other novel
techniques. The company has been establishing applications
in a variety of industrial sectors including Energy and Food,
measuring complex flows of valuable commodities.
Whilst these markets continue to progress, Atout is now
repositioning around an exciting new application, measuring
the most valuable commodities of all, propellants in space.
Development Stage: Fundraising for growth in Space,
Industrialisation for Energy, Food and other sectors
Sector: Various including space
Website: www.atoutprocess.com
Twitter: @AtoutFlow
Email: rfosterturner@atoutprocess.com
Tel: +44 7540 047 639
Richard
Foster-Turner
Chief Operating
Officer
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7. e2E Services Limited
With “end-to-end” delivery at its core, e2E was established
in 1999 to provide communications engineering,
integration and technical consultancy services to clients
operating within the telecommunications Industry.
Whilst satellite communications remains our dominant sector,
terrestrial, wireless and cellular networks is also undergoing
convergence at both the technical and operational levels. Our
engineering and implementation experience is helping bridge
this harmonisation and we now provide our services into both the
governmental (namely Defence) and commercial sectors.
The provision of communication services to clients over the years
has enabled the Company to be at the forefront of innovation
through targeted technologies and service concepts.
The Company is increasingly participating in the development of
leading edge innovative technologies to provide for more affordable
satellite communications. Traditional approaches continue to be a
barrier to entry for smaller enterprises due to cost, coverage and
complexity issues.
The pursuit of more affordable communications is founded on our
belief that new cheaper innovative delivery platforms (IDPs) including
Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), High Altitude Platforms (HAPs)
and small satellites will increasingly be used to deliver competitive
communications into niche areas where current offerings are non-
existent or unsuitable.
Our NEATaccess communications equipment together with our
NEATdelivery uninterrupted service delivery technology is fostering
our ambition to create a disruptive change in the delivery of future
satellite communications. This belief is further fuelling our underlying
Research and Development (R&D) initiatives.
Development Stage: Industrialisation
Sector: Satellite Communications
Website: www.e2eservices.co.uk
Twitter: @e2eservices1
Email: barryross@e2eservices.co.uk
Tel: +44 1707 636 035
Barry Ross
CEO & Founder
Director
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8. Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd
Goonhilly Earth Station (GES) Ltd is the owner and
operator of the world’s most famous satellite ground
station. Based in the far South West of the UK, Goonhilly
received the first transatlantic TV pictures in 1962 and
from there grew to become the pioneer in satellite
communications, present at the birth of Intelsat, Inmarsat
and Eutelsat. As the UK’s main international telephone
exchange and TV broadcast location, Goonhilly has a
global reputation for innovation and excellence.
Now in private ownership, GES Ltd is developing Goonhilly into a
diverse and highly innovative space technology and applications
centre. It’s secure, and highly capable site occupies over 160 acres
and is home to some of the largest antennas in Europe. The operate
24/7 providing satellite communication and telecommand services to
all of the major satellite operators.
Goonhilly’s entrepreneurial business model combines a number
of complementary vertical market segments each with a direct link
to space or data. This diversity significantly lowers their operating
risk by spreading our fixed overheads allowing them to offer a
combination of brilliant service and excellent value-for-money.
The experience, knowledge and commitment of its staff is
recognised by its clients as their strongest asset.
Development Stage: Financing growth
Sector: Space / Ground Station
Website: www.goonhilly.org
Twitter: @goonhillyorg
Email: ian.jones@goonhilly.org
Tel: +44 7774 720 118
Ian Jones
CEO
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Open Cosmos Ltd
Incorporated in the UK in July 2015, Open Cosmos is
a company that provides simple and affordable space
access. It solves the three main space access barriers:
technology, paperwork and cost.
They do this by offering a in-house built nanosatellite platform
and a series of services around it (e.g. launch and ground
segment procurement, licensing and insurance paperwork,
in-orbit operations) so that the customer only has to take care
of providing the payload, and Open Cosmos takes care of all
the rest, bringing the in-orbit generated data to the customer’s
desk.
All in all, it is a one-stop-shop space access provider solution
with market record price and time to orbit.
Open Cosmos has gone from design to delivery of its first
nanosatellite in only 4 months and it will be launched into
orbit on the 30th of December. It is also official supplier of the
European Space Agency’s Education Office and has provided
more than 600 educational sub-orbital platforms to students all
over Europe, so that they can learn following Open Cosmos’
mindset and become the next generation of space engineers.
Open Cosmos is now testing the second generation of
its nanosatellite platform and doing feasibility studies for
customers that involve up to 12 satellites.
Development Stage: Beginning of commercialisation
Sector: Nanosatellite services
Website: www.open-cosmos.com
Twitter: @Open_Cosmos
Email: aleix@open-cosmos.com
Tel: +44 7586 544 743
Aleix Megias
Director, System
Engineer

10. Oxford Space Systems
Voted best “UK Technology Start-Up” in 2015, venture
capital backed Oxford Space Systems is bringing a new
generation of deployable structures to the space industry.
Market pressure drives satellites to be ever more mass &
volume efficient. This means deployable structures such
as antennas, solar panels and booms are under constant
pressure to be as light and as stowage efficient as
possible. OSS uses its flight proven proprietary materials,
such as flexible composites, to deliver structures that are
lighter, more stowage efficient and lower cost than those
in current demand.
Oxford Space Systems (OSS) is developing proprietary materials
that, when combined with design techniques such as origami, allow
it produce class-leading deployables for a range of commercial
and military applications. The company has also developed unique
proprietary analytical tools for the modelling and tuning of its flexible
composite materials. This significantly reduces both cost and
development time of its products. This is showcased by the setting
a space industry record by going from product concept to orbit in
under 30 months. This was achieved with its AstroTube™ flexible
composite boom, the world’s longest retractable boom system.
Revenue generating since inception in late 2013, profitable contracts
have been secured with a number of European and Asian satellite
builders. Co-development collaboration contracts are also under way
with Europe’s largest satellite builders as well as emerging players in
the developing market of smaller and cheaper satellites: micro and
cubesats. The company’s strategy is to validate its range of products
in the low earth orbit market and use data and experience to secure
design-ins for the lucrative and well established geo-stationary
telecomms market. For the latter, OSS is receiving global interest in
its large unfurlable antennas and is under NDA with a well-known US
defence contractor and large satellite builder to explore opportunities.
Mike Lawton
CEO
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Drawing on conventional wisdom as well fresh thinking, the OSS
team is at the forefront of developments in the new space age.
Based at UK government-supported Harwell Space Cluster – home
to over 65 space companies - Oxford Space Systems enjoys access
to state of the art test facilities and expertise
Founded by experienced entrepreneur & CEO, Mike Lawton,
the multi-award winning Oxford Space Systems team contains a
diverse range of world-class expertise in the fields of aerospace,
mechanical, electronic and thermal engineering for the space
environment. The OSS Board contains investing Non Exec Directors
who have held senior positions in European and Canadian space
hardware companies.
OSS is backed by a small consortium of leading UK venture capital
funds and enjoys the financial support of Innovate UK, the European
and UK Space Agencies. The company anticipates Series B
fundraising in early of 2017.
Website: www.oxford.space
Twitter: @OxfordSpace
Email: mike.lawton@oxfordspacesystems.com
Tel: +44 7740 937 935

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Realsafe Technologies
Realsafe Technologies is a company focused on
developing safety-based technology connected to
Emergency Services.
The company launched their first award-winning product,
REALRIDER®, in 2013. This industry-first app designed for
motorcyclists is the only one of its kind to detect if a rider has
crashed and notify Emergency Services of rider location. The
company’s partnership with the NHS is unique and there is
no other app on the market that links directly to Emergency
Services. REALRIDER® is the first app to fully integrate into
the BT telematics system, which ensures crash alerts are
treated like any other 999 emergency calls.
Zoe Farrington (CEO) and co-founder Andrew Richardson
(CCO) previously ran a Public Sector Marketing Consultancy,
Fused, which grew to become a profitable £1.8m turnover
business employing a team of six staff.
The business flourished until the economic downturn that saw
a radical restructure of the public sector. Viewing the changed
market status as an opportunity to exploit a new idea, profits
were used to form Realsafe Technologies.
Zoe and Andrew secured match funding from a VC on first
pitch for REALRIDER® and in July 2012 the company was
formed. The company closed a further round of £1m in
September 2015.
Development Stage: Early Stage
Sector: Technology
Website: www.realrider.com
Twitter: @realsafetech
Email: andrew@realsafetechnologies.com
Tel: +44 7947 142 438
Andrew Mark
Richardson
CEO

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Sen
Sen is creating space television, generating video data
from space, starting with Earth. Our business model is
selling very high resolution video data and analytics to the
Earth Observation market where customers will include
government organizations and businesses monitoring
change on Earth. Sen is bringing several new capabilities to
the Earth Observation market which Sen believes will make
its data very valuable. Once we have generated revenues
from our constellation of Earth Observation satellites, Sen
plans to deploy constellations of its spacecraft around
the Moon and eventually Mars, commercializing space
exploration data. Sen has designed a unique imaging
system which will be launched aboard the company’s own
micro satellites.
As well as providing valuable data on Earth, the Moon
and Mars, Sen will also generate original video content for
consumers which it will market through news and social media.
Sen’s space videos will change the way humans see Earth and
space, inspiring and educating humanity.
Governments, businesses and people need to know what is
happening on Earth, and eventually on and around the Moon
and Mars as the space economy expands to these locations.
Sen’s technology is designed to be multi-planetary, so that Sen
can deliver unique data to governments, space operators and
humanity.
As we become a multi-planetary species Sen’s video data will
be an important part of the multi-planetary infrastructure that
informs, inspires and educates people across worlds. Sen’s
unique films of Earth, the Moon and Mars—such as the first
humans arriving at Mars — will be watched by billions and
change the way humanity sees space forever.
Development Stage: Seed
Sector: Space, Space Television, Micro satellites, Earth
Observation, Multi-World Data
Website: www.sen.com
Twitter: @sen
Email: cb@sen.com
Tel: +44 7922 888 888
Charles Black
Founder & CEO

14. Sky and Space Global
Sky and Space Global (UK) Limited, a UK incorporated
company with European and Israeli centers of Aerospace,
Satellite and Software Industry Experts, will deploy a
nanosatellites constellation in orbit and provide global
narrowband communication infrastructure and services.
The Company is now funded beyond the Q2 2017 launch of
its first three (3) satellites with the Indian Space Research
Organization, following the completion of the Company’s
recent oversubscribed $4.5 million fund raising.
Sky and Space Global aims to provide low cost, nano-satellite
narrowband communication coverage on an anywhere to
everywhere base with relatively low maintenance costs. Due to
the experience and expertise of the founders in the aerospace
industry, the business will be able to develop with inherent
upgrading capabilities within short intervals, utilising their
unique IP nanosat software protocols.
“We believe that communication is a basic human right, and
we will provide affordable communication services to Anyone,
Anywhere, Anytime”.
Development Stage: Advanced
Sector: Space
Website: www.skyandspace.global
Twitter: @SkySpaceGlobal
Email: meir@skyandspace.global
Tel: +44 2031 502 789
Meir Moalem
CEO
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15. TISICS Limited
Since a management buyout in 2005 TISICS has developed
lightweight high performance metal matrix composites
(MMC) reinforced with its proprietary ceramic fibre. TISICS
is the only European supplier of ceramic fibre MMC,
recognised by ESA as providing independent access to
these MMCs in Europe.
TISICS owns the fibre to composite design and manufacturing
technology and is working with Airbus Defence and Space,
TAS UK, SSTL, Reaction Engines and ESA. TISICS is
focusing on spacecraft propellant tanks as customers seek
a UK supply chain.
TISICS owns technology developed since the late 1980s and
is exploiting patented and proprietary technology to develop
markets in the UK and Europe. TISICS is developing its space
manufacturing capability and seeking investment to enable
serial production. Once the space manufacturing business is
robust TISICS will use this as a platform to grow a larger civil
aerospace capability in the UK.
Growth will improve the economics for all sectors which will
increase our range of products and export opportunities.
TISICS has 18 staff and remains a private management team
owned SME.
TISICS turned over £820k in FY2015/16 and forecasts
£1.2M in FY2016/17 with a secure £2.4M 3 year order book.
We are seeking commercial export sales and investment to
enable growth of a UK manufacturing capability.
Development Stage: Pre-product, growing
Sector: Space and Aerospace
Website: www.tisics.co.uk
Twitter: @TiMetalMatrix
Email: skylehenney@tisics.co.uk
Tel: +44 7798 656 761
Stephen
Kyle-Henney
Managing Director
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16. About Satellite
Applications Catapult
The Satellite Applications Catapult is an independent
innovation and technology company, created to foster growth
across the economy through the exploitation of space. We
help organisations make use of and benefit from satellite
technologies, and bring together multi-disciplinary teams
to generate ideas and solutions in an open innovation
environment.
UK Government and Industry are committed to growing a £40
Billion UK space industry by 2030. We are currently working
with organisations in industries such as agriculture, future
cities, transport, maritime and others to contribute to this global
ambition.
The Catapult is transforming the way the world uses satellite
technology, enabling new business and improving lives
the world over. We are driven by how our actions help the
organisations we work with, both large and small, bring new
services to market. Many companies are already seeing
the benefits of working with the Catapult, through increased
investment, job creation and revenue growth. Their success is
our success.
If you have a general enquiry, please contact:
E: info@sa.catapult.org.uk
T: +44 1235 567 999
Address
Satellite Applications Catapult
Electron Building
Fermi Avenue
Harwell, Oxford
Didcot
Oxfordshire
OX11 0QR
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17. Chinwag’s mission is to connect digital
businesses and their people. Founded in
1996, the company developed the UK’s
first digital marketing community now
reaching over 30,000 people in the UK.
Chinwag produces numerous events,
conference and trade missions including
the Digital Mission series.
Since 2008, Chinwag has run over 25
missions to destinations across the US
and Asia, including the first UK mission
of hardware startups to China and the
first missions for robotics and space
applications working with Innovate UK,
the UK government’s innovation agency.
Specifically designed to help highly-
innovative, fast-growing technology
companies expand internationally the
missions have supported over 250 of the
world’s leading technology companies
bringing together startups, governments,
investors and multinational corporates.
As well as independent missions,
Chinwag has worked with UK Trade
& Investment, Innovate UK, Select
USA, Google Korea and the Korean
Government on international trade events.
Chinwag has also developed the world’s
first conference on applied behaviour
science, Chinwag Psych.
Most recent missions include the Space
Mission series, Digital Mission NYC
2016 as well as Pitch NYC, featuring top
UK emerging technology firms pitching
for investment to grow their business,
primarily in the US market.
Chinwag also provides market entry
support for digital firms entering the UK
market as well as event and marketing
consultancy, including the Open Data
Institute Annual Summit series with Sir
Tim Berners-Lee.
Contact
Mission Programme & Global
Operations
Marius Maritz
marius@chinwag.com
CEO & Investor Relations
Sam Michel
sam@chinwag.com
Head of Recruitment and
Communications
Hydie Warwick
hydie@chinwag.com
+44 7480 137 465
About Chinwag
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18. NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Saturday, 5th November
AM: Travel - London Heathrow to San Francisco International Airport
PM: Arrive San Francisco and check into hotel
Sunday, 6th November
Acclimatisation - Day to settle in & leisure activities
18.00 - 20.00: Welcome to Space Mission 3: Informal Meetup
Monday, 7th November
09.30 - 11.30: US Market & Legal Brief, hosted by WSGR including speakers from UK Science &
Innovation Network and Department for International Trade
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is the premier legal advisor to technology, life sciences, and other
growth enterprises worldwide. We represent companies at every stage of development, from entrepreneurial
start-ups to multibillion-dollar global corporations, as well as the venture firms, private equity firms, and
investment banks that finance and advise them. The firm’s broad range of services and practice areas are
focused on addressing the principal challenges faced by the management, boards of directors, shareholders,
and in-house counsel of our clients.
12. 00 - 13.00 Fine tuning company pitches
15.00 - 16.00 Bessemer Venture Partners Pitch Session
Bessemer backs passionate and thoughtful founders as they turn exciting ideas into market leading
businesses. They admire those who aren’t afraid to break with convention and are driven to push the limits of
what is possible with technology and product.
16.30 - 19.30: Silicon Valley Space Centre: Investment Pitch Event
- pitching to panel of investors and sector experts, chaired by Dr. Sean Casey, hosted by BootUP.
Evening: Informal mission drinks event
Tuesday, 8th November
Silicon Valley Safari Day
08.45 - 09.45 NASA Ames, meeting with Gary Martin
Mr. Gary L. Martin is the Director of Partnership Directorate at Ames Research Center. In this position he
oversees public-private and international partnerships, new business opportunities, and NASA’s SBIR/STTR
program for the Center.
Mr. Martin has been a civil servant at NASA for 25 years and has worked at Langley Research Center, NASA
Headquarters and Goddard Space Flight Center before coming to Ames. He has worked primarily in the
science mission and human spaceflight areas, usually in program management for advanced technology
and strategic planning. In 2002, he was named as NASA’s first Space Architect, leading strategic planning for
the Agency and providing the analysis that was used to develop NASA’s Vision for Exploration.
Mission Programme
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19. For this work he was awarded NASA’s Outstanding Leadership Medal in 2005. From 2005-2007 and 2012-
2013 Mr. Martin was on a NASA Intergovernmental Personnel Assignment as the Director of the Space
Studies Program at the International Space University in Strasbourg, France.
Mr. Martin holds a Masters in Mechanical Engineering/Astronautical Engineering from George Washington
University, and dual Bachelors degrees in Physics and Applied Mathematics from Virginia Commonwealth
University and Bachelors in Anthropology from Colorado State University.
11.30 - 13.30: Space Systems Loral: Site visit
SSL is the leading provider of geostationary commercial satellites, with experience building and integrating
some of the world’s most powerful and complex satellites and spacecraft systems. The company has a long
history of delivering reliable satellites and spacecraft systems for commercial and government customers
around the world and currently has more geostationary commercial capacity on orbit than any other
manufacturer.
14.30 - 16.30: SRI International: Site Visit
SRI International is a nonprofit, independent research center serving government and industry.
We work on some of the world’s most important problems, collaborating across technical disciplines
to spark new ideas and solutions. Our research and innovations have led to new industries and
products that impact people’s lives every day—from the computer mouse and interactive
computing to medical ultrasound, cancer drugs, and much more.
16.55: Travel to Los Angeles
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20. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Wednesday, 9th November
10.30 - 12.30 University of Southern California, David Barnhart (Director, Space Technology and
Systems Group & Research Professor, Department of Astronautical Engineering)
David Barnhart leads ISI’s Space Systems and Technology group, which combines disruptive research
with a hands-on, small-satellite design and launch for USC Viterbi students. Barnhart’s specialties include
second-generation space morphology design, robotics applied to and with satellites, and application-based
engineering capabilities.
He works with space experts both on USC’s main campus, via the Space Engineering Research Center
(SERC), and with government and commercial space entities. A SERC founder and current director,
he previously developed new aerospace and satellite systems and technologies, design tools that
dramatically reduce project time-to-completion, and contact dynamic surface platens for full-size space
simulation solutions.
Barnhart recently returned to ISI from DARPA, where he was a senior space project manager. Before USC
he helped found and lead two space companies, Millennium Space Systems and Germany-based Vanguard
Space. Barnhart earned his BSAE from Boston University and his master’s degree from Virginia Polytechnic
Institute, both in aerospace engineering. Including his previous tenure, he has been with ISI for 5 years.
14.30 - 16.30: Company Visit: Raytheon
Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration and other capabilities in the
areas of sensing; effects; and command, control, communications and intelligence systems; as well as a
broad range of mission support services.
Evening: Informal meal & drinks
Thursday, 10th November
10.00 - 12.00: Meeting NASA JPL, Charles Norton Program Area Manager / Principal Research
Technologist & Dr. Tony Freeman, Program Manager
JPL grew up with the Space Age and helped bring it into being. It is a place where science, technology, and
engineering intermix in unique ways: to produce iconic robotic space explorers sent to every corner of the
solar system, to peer deep into the Milky Way galaxy and beyond, and to keep a watchful eye on our home
planet. Analyzing the data pouring back from these machine emissaries, scientists around the world continue
to discover how the universe, the solar system, and life formed and evolved. around the world and currently
has more geostationary commercial capacity on orbit than any other manufacturer.
13.00 - 14.30 Pitch Preparation
16.30 - 18.30: Formal Space Mission Pitch Event at British Consulate
Formal pitch event to panel of investors as well as small audience including Amir Blachman,
Robert Jacobson.
18.45 - 21.30: Invite Only Networking Reception - Space Mission 3 & invited guests
The evening will include VCs from the afternoon session & additional guests.
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21. Friday, 11th November
Veterans Day
10.30 - 12.30: Meeting: Virgin Galactic
Virgin Galactic is comprised of hundreds of dedicated and passionate professionals — including rocket
scientists, engineers, and designers from around the world — united in creating something new and lasting:
the world’s first commercial spaceline. A spaceline for Earth. Our team brings decades of experience from
organizations like NASA, traditional aerospace firms, and other Virgin companies. We are here because we
believe we are at the vanguard of a new space industry that is defining the future of exploration and that we
will ultimately make space accessible to more people and for more purposes than ever before. It is a large
and difficult undertaking; but through our efforts, we believe we can help inspire future generations and make
it possible to see the beautiful planet we call home from a new perspective.
Afternoon: Travel to airport & return to UK
Wrap.
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With thanks to
Annette Kramer, Consulting
www.annettekramer.co.uk
Mike Lawton, Oxford Space Systems
www.oxford.space
The Knowledge Transfer Network
www.ktn-uk.co.uk
Jerel Whittingham, Investor
James Bruegger, Seraphim Capital
seraphimcapital.co.uk
Stephen Ainsworth, Barclays
UK Science & Innovation Network
How to contact SIN
Email SIN Management at sinmanagement@bis.gsi.gov.uk
UK Department for International Trade (DIT)
www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-international-trade
Dan Glazer, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
www.wsgr.com
Conor O’Sullivan, Satellite Applications Catapult
sa.catapult.org.uk
Sunil Nagaraj, Bessemer Venture Partners
www.bvp.com
Dr. Sean Casey, Silicon Valley Space Centre
www.svsc.org
BootUP
www.bootupworld.com
Gary Martin, NASAAmes
www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/home

23. Space Systems Loral
www.sslmda.com
SRI International
www.sri.com
Professor David Barnhart, USC
astronautics.usc.edu
Raytheon
www.raytheon.com
Dr. Tony Freeman, NASA JPL
www.jpl.nasa.gov
Monica Jan, LightSpeed Innovations
www.lightspeedic.com
Amir Blachman, Axiom Space
Robert Jacobson, Desert Sky Holdings
Will Pomerantz, Virgin Galactic
www.virgingalactic.com
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