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In January 2023, Oxford Space Systems opened a composite manufacturing facility in Abingdon, Oxfordshire to scale up internal capability to manufacture composite materials and components for deployable antennas.
Oxford Space Systems moved into a custom-built facility on the Harwell Campus in October 2018.
Oxford Space Systems is a 10-year-old venture working with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory of the U.K. Ministry of Defence to create smaller C-band terminals for lower-bandwidth applications.
The research and development collaboration will build Oxford Space Systems’ relationship with Viasat in the UK and expand how OSS brings its innovations in space antennas to support ground solutions.
The collaborative work will build on Oxford Space Systems’ and the UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory’s research on C-band deployable antennas while focusing the new work on developing a smaller and higher-performance Ka-band antenna.
Oxford Space Systems moved into its custom-built facility on the Harwell Campus in October 2018.
In January 2023 Oxford Space Systems opened a new manufacturing facility in Abingdon, Oxfordshire to scale up composite materials and component manufacturing for deployable antennas.
In January 2023 Oxford Space Systems opened a new manufacturing facility in Abingdon, Oxfordshire to scale up composite materials and component manufacturing for deployable antennas.
Oxford Space Systems established a metal mesh manufacturing facility at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus to manufacture foldable reflector surfaces.
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.