Oxford Space Systems (OSS) is a UK-based space hardware manufacturer specializing in deployable antennas and structures for satellites. They leverage proprietary materials and novel engineering techniques to create antennas that offer high radio frequency (RF) performance, efficient stowage, and robustness for harsh space environments. OSS's products, like Wrapped Rib antennas, cater to growing markets such as IoT, vessel tracking, and Earth observation, and they collaborate with leading satellite manufacturers like Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) and Airbus Defence and Space. Key partners also include the UK Space Agency (UKSA) and the European Space Agency (ESA).
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Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) and Oxford Space Systems (OSS) are partnering to build and launch an OSS Wrapped Rib antenna mounted to an SSTL CarbSAR satellite.
Kelpie 1 weighs 4 kg and features a proprietary low-noise bus architecture, multiple software-defined radio (SDR) payloads, and an advanced antenna concept developed by Oxford Space Systems.
Oxford Space Systems developed a wrapped rib SAR antenna with UK government support for small radar missions.
The satellite bus and the radar antenna for the first MicroSAR satellite will be built in the UK by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) and its subcontractor Oxford Space Systems (OSS).
SSTL will be responsible for building the MicroSAR radar antenna through its subcontractor Oxford Space Systems (OSS).
The U.K. Space Agency funds companies like Oxford Space Systems and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. to deliver new space capabilities intended to help tackle challenges including disaster monitoring, urban planning, and transport management.
Oxford Space Systems worked with QuadSAT to test the deployable Wrapped Rib reflector.
Oxford Space Systems and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. completed construction of a deployable Wrapped Rib antenna for small synthetic aperture radar satellites.
Oxford Space Systems provided a deployable antenna that mounts on Lacuna’s IoT satellite receiver and can receive short messages directly from small battery-powered ground devices.
Oxford Space Systems provided the deployable antenna that sits on top of Lacuna Space’s IoT satellite receiver and can receive short messages directly from small battery-powered ground devices.
Oxford Space Systems’ Wrapped Rib antenna is scheduled to reach orbit in early 2021 as part of Project Oberon, a Ministry of Defence campaign to develop a constellation of synthetic aperture radar satellites.
Oxford Space Systems was established in 2013 in the United Kingdom’s Harwell Space Cluster by Mike Lawton.
On 2018-06-14, Oxford Space Systems moved into a new Harwell Space Cluster headquarters and gained access to an on-campus clean room for flight hardware assembly.
Since forming in 2013, Oxford Space Systems has raised a total of £10,000,000to build spacecraft antennas, deployable booms, and other structures.
Oxford Space Systems’ first antenna is scheduled to launch in 2020 on the U.K. Defence Science and Technology Laboratory’s Wideband Ionospheric Sounder CubeSat Experiment that Thales Alenia Space is building.
Oxford Space Systems aims to raise another £1,300,000by September to close its Series A financing round.
Oxford Space Systems raised 6.7 million British pounds from investors.
Oxford Space Systems has a boom on ALsat-Nano, a joint cubesat project of the U.K. and Algerian space agencies that launched in 2016.
Oxford Space Systems tested a 4-meter deployable antenna and can scale that product up to 14 m in diameter.