Open Cosmos, founded in 2015, is a space company that designs, builds, launches, and operates satellites, with a focus on simplifying access to space and democratizing space data. It provides end-to-end mission services, including satellite assembly, launch campaigns, in-orbit operations, and data delivery, enabling organizations to utilize satellite imagery for Earth observation and address global challenges. Open Cosmos works with partners like the European Space Agency (ESA) and collaborates with organizations such as Space Park Leicester to expand its capabilities and data exploitation reach. The company's key services include its OpenOrbit mission management, OpenConstellation infrastructure for data sharing, and DataCosmos platform for AI-powered data analysis.
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Open Cosmos aims for OpenConstellation to provide a total of 25 satellites across future batches with a mix of spatial and spectral resolutions.
Open Cosmos and RHEA Group selected Virgin Orbit’s UK business to launch the DOVER Pathfinder satellite to low Earth orbit from Spaceport Cornwall later 2022.
The DOVER Pathfinder’s payload was designed by RHEA Group in the UK and the satellite was built by UK-based Open Cosmos.
RHEA Group is working with Open Cosmos to design, build, and operate the DOVER Pathfinder mission.
Open Cosmos is partnering with IPGP, which is part of Université Paris Cité and serves as the scientific lead for NanoMagSat.
The Open Cosmos-led consortium will use the ESA funding to de-risk technologies on the ground over the next 18 months.
ESA awarded a 5,200,000 EUR contract to Open Cosmos to develop plans for a space weather monitoring constellation.
Open Cosmos aims to fully launch DataCosmos in 2022-10-01.
Open Cosmos launched DataCosmos, a multi-satellite data platform, on 26 May.
Since launching in 2017, Open Cosmos has operated space missions end-to-end including satellite manufacturing, mission management, satellite operation, and services.
Open Cosmos partnered with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) to develop and launch the Alisio-1 satellite.
Claire Cullen is Vice President of People at Open Cosmos and commits to acting as a role model to women who want to progress their careers into leadership and to offering support and coaching to enable them to achieve their full potential.
Maria Sevilla is an Assembly, Integration and Test engineer at Open Cosmos who builds and tests the company’s most advanced satellites.
Open Cosmos has been selected to design, manufacture, and commission the Alisio-1 satellite.
Open Cosmos has been selected to design, manufacture, and commission the Alisio-1 satellite.
Each Open Cosmos satellite was integrated into the rocket deployer and ejected from the Soyuz-2.1A when the rocket reached approximately 500 km from Earth.
Open Cosmos will monitor and operate the launched mission from four ground stations around the globe using OpenOps, Open Cosmos’s satellite operations software.
Open Cosmos has invested more than £4 million in research and development with leveraged support from the UK Space Agency and the European Space Agency through the ARTES Partnership Project’s Pioneer program.
The two Open Cosmos satellites completed strict testing in controlled environments and received an operations license from the UK Space Agency before launch.
Open Cosmos will monitor and operate the mission from four ground stations around the globe and can manage those stations for partners through OpenOps, Open Cosmos’s satellite operations software.