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Orbital Astronautics Ltd

ORBASTRO - Tiny satellites in large flocks

Stealth Mode

CRN
10880961
Founded
2017
Age
8

Overview

Legal name
ORBITAL ASTRONAUTICS LTD
Region
South East England
Registered address
ORBITAL ASTRONAUTICS LTD UNIT 3, THAMES COURT
HIGH STREET
GORING
OXFORDSHIRE
ENGLAND
RG8 9AQ
Insolvency history
No

Latest accounts

Financial period: 1 Jun 2023 to 31 May 2024

FULLACCOUNTS
Turnover
Unknown
Profit / Loss
Unknown
Employees
17

Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

5 events
28 Feb
2027

Accounts due

Accounts Due

Next accounts due date

06 Aug
2026

Confirmation statement due

Confirmation Due

Next confirmation statement due date

23 Jul
2025

Confirmation statement filed

Confirmation

Last confirmation statement made up date

31 May
2025

Accounts filed

Accounts

Last accounts made up date

24 Jul
2017

Incorporated

Inception

Company registered at Companies House

Public funding

6 awards
First funded
2019
Funded years
2019, 2020, 2021
Age at first award
2 years

Projects

2021 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Project PCB Delta-Design

1 Dec 2021 to 31 Jan 2022

Awarded
£38,500
Total cost £38,500

Severe and widespread shortages in electronic components require OrbAstro to delta-design PCBs for components that are in supply. Without doing so, progress of on-going R&D with IUK and ultimate commercialisation stalls.

2020 Study Lead participant

Project Thea: Hybrid RF-Optical Inter-Satellite Communications System

1 Oct 2020 to 31 Jan 2022

Awarded
£317,745
Total cost £453,922

OrbAstro will develop to TRL5 a complete solution for optical inter-satellite communications, compatible with standard nanosatellite platforms, decoupled from nanosatellite ADCS, targeting the constellation markets.

2020 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Project Vesta: Satellite AIT Facility Batch Productionisation

1 Oct 2020 to 30 Jun 2021

Awarded
£174,970
Total cost £218,712

Development of inspection and assembly processes for nanosatellite subsystem product-lines.

2020 Feasibility Studies Lead participant

Project Eurus: COVID19 Breathalyser

1 Jun 2020 to 30 Nov 2020

Awarded
£50,000
Total cost £50,000

Breathalyser utilising neural networks to identify COVID19 virus in otherwise pre-symptomatic individuals.

2019 Study Lead participant

Project Proteus: Flocking Module for Nanosatellites

1 Dec 2019 to 31 May 2021

Awarded
£337,707
Total cost £482,438

OrbAstro is focused on developing the technology required to enable efficient, effective and responsible operations of clusters and constellations of satellites. This project is focused on several subsystems associated with the OrbAstro Flocking Module. The Flocking Module wholly enables formation flight and flocking of satellites. The variant of Flocking...

2019 Study Lead participant

Project Zeus: Thermal Management of High-Powered Satellite Payloads

1 Dec 2019 to 31 May 2021

Awarded
£156,776
Total cost £223,966

This project is helping OrbAstro address a key problem throttling the growth of the nano-satellite (1-10kg), micro-satellite (10-100kg), and small-satellite (100-500kg) sectors. This project will allow the company to develop an elegant solution for the power electronics and thermal management systems required to enable high-powered payloads to operate on ...

Product types

Collaborative R&D Feasibility Studies Study