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Open Cosmos

GB
commercialFounded 2015
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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.

Mentioned as: Open CosmosOrg RelationshipJul 26, 2022Virgin Orbit’s 1st UK launch is for RHEA Group’s DOVER Pathfinder smallsat

ESA awarded a 5,200,000 EUR contract to Open Cosmos to develop plans for a space weather monitoring constellation.

Mentioned as: Open CosmosOrg RelationshipMay 27, 2022UK’s Open Cosmos gets ESA funding for space weather constellation

Open Cosmos is partnering with IPGP, which is part of Université Paris Cité and serves as the scientific lead for NanoMagSat.

Mentioned as: Open CosmosOrg RelationshipMay 27, 2022UK’s Open Cosmos gets ESA funding for space weather constellation

The Open Cosmos-led consortium will use the ESA funding to de-risk technologies on the ground over the next 18 months.

Mentioned as: Open Cosmos-led consortiumOrg RelationshipMay 27, 2022UK’s Open Cosmos gets ESA funding for space weather constellation

Open Cosmos launched DataCosmos, a multi-satellite data platform, on 26 May.

Mentioned as: Open CosmosTechnical ProductMay 24, 2022DataCosmos announcement

Open Cosmos aims to fully launch DataCosmos in 2022-10-01.

Mentioned as: Open CosmosNarrative GeneralMay 24, 2022DataCosmos announcement

Open Cosmos partnered with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) to develop and launch the Alisio-1 satellite.

Mentioned as: Open CosmosOrg RelationshipMay 24, 2022DataCosmos announcement

Since launching in 2017, Open Cosmos has operated space missions end-to-end including satellite manufacturing, mission management, satellite operation, and services.

Mentioned as: open cosmosTechnical ProductMay 24, 2022DataCosmos announcement

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.

Mentioned as: Open CosmosNarrative GeneralMar 8, 2022International Women’s Day #BreakTheBias

Maria Sevilla is an Assembly, Integration and Test engineer at Open Cosmos who builds and tests the company’s most advanced satellites.

Mentioned as: Open CosmosNarrative GeneralMar 8, 2022International Women’s Day #BreakTheBias

The Open Cosmos team gathering featured demonstrations of projects and products being launched 2022.

Mentioned as: Open CosmosNarrative GeneralMar 7, 2022Together Again! Open Cosmos Team Day March 2022

Open Cosmos has been selected to design, manufacture, and commission the Alisio-1 satellite.

Mentioned as: open cosmosTechnical ProductFeb 28, 2022Open Cosmos to launch Alisio-1 satellite for the Canary Islands

Open Cosmos has been selected to design, manufacture, and commission the Alisio-1 satellite.

Mentioned as: Open CosmosNarrative GeneralFeb 25, 2022Open Cosmos selected for the design, manufacture and commissioning of the ALISIO-1 satellite

Open Cosmos launched two commercial smallsats that were entirely created at its Harwell Campus headquarters in the United Kingdom on Monday, 2021-03-22.

Mentioned as: open cosmosTechnical ProductMar 23, 2021Open Cosmos Milestone Reached With The Launch Of Two Smallsats

Open Cosmos has invested more than £4 million in research and development, leveraged with support from the UK Space Agency and the European Space Agency through the ARTES Partnership Project; Pioneer programme, and has grown its team from five to 50 people.

Mentioned as: Open CosmosOrg RelationshipMar 23, 2021UK SpaceTech Open Cosmos launches two satellites to bring connectivity to hard-to-reach areas across the globe

Open Cosmos has 10 missions under development, including the MANTIS mission in partnership with ESA-Incubed and the UK Space Agency, which aims to provide high-resolution imagery and IOD6 in partnership with the Satellite Applications Catapult.

Mentioned as: Open CosmosNarrative PlanMar 23, 2021UK SpaceTech Open Cosmos launches two satellites to bring connectivity to hard-to-reach areas across the globe

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.

Mentioned as: Open CosmosNarrative GeneralMar 23, 2021Open Cosmos Milestone Reached With The Launch Of Two Smallsats

Open Cosmos launched two commercial nanosatellites that were created entirely at its Harwell Campus headquarters.

Mentioned as: Open CosmosOrg RelationshipMar 23, 2021UK SpaceTech Open Cosmos launches two satellites to bring connectivity to hard-to-reach areas across the globe

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.

Mentioned as: Open CosmosTechnical ProductMar 23, 2021Open Cosmos Milestone Reached With The Launch Of Two Smallsats

The two Open Cosmos satellites completed strict testing in controlled environments and received an operations license from the UK Space Agency before launch.

Mentioned as: Open CosmosNarrative GeneralMar 23, 2021UK SpaceTech Open Cosmos launches two satellites to bring connectivity to hard-to-reach areas across the globe
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