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Boffin · Cambridge
Prof. Rajesh Nair
Professor of Photonic Systems · University of Cambridge
Puts light to work. Satellites, factories, and the occasional stubborn biomedical problem all look the same to a well-behaved waveguide.
Space & Satellites · Digital & AI · Materials & Quantum
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Boffin · Glasgow
Dr Eleri Vaughan
Senior Lecturer in Spacecraft Engineering · University of Glasgow
Gets small spacecraft through qualification without cooking the payload. Thermal design, test procedures, and the schedule nobody costed properly.
Space & Satellites · Advanced Manufacturing · Materials & Quantum
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Organisation · Teddington
National Physical Laboratory
research centre
The country's official grown-up about measurement. If you cannot measure it, NPL will not let you pretend.
Materials & Quantum · Digital & AI · Space & Satellites · Life Sciences & MedTech
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Organisation · Harwell, Oxfordshire
Satellite Applications Catapult
research centre
Sits deliberately between the people who build spacecraft and the people who need the data. Neither group speaks the other's language without help.
Space & Satellites · Digital & AI · Clean Energy & Net Zero · Mobility & Infrastructure
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Organisation · Glasgow
University of Glasgow
university
Builds an improbable number of small spacecraft for a city with no launch pad. Also rather good at very small things generally.
Space & Satellites · Advanced Manufacturing · Materials & Quantum · Life Sciences & MedTech
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Organisation · Cambridge
Lumen Forge
startup
A small team building photonic payloads that fit in a CubeSat and a budget. Less swagger than the slides next door; more photons per gram.
Space & Satellites · Digital & AI · Materials & Quantum
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Organisation · Glasgow
University of Strathclyde
university
A technological university in a city that still builds things. Marine energy, manufacturing, and a useful impatience with vagueness.
Clean Energy & Net Zero · Advanced Manufacturing · Space & Satellites
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Equipment · Teddington
Time & Quantum Measurement Labs
National Physical Laboratory
Clocks, sensors, and the official British opinion on what time it is. If your device claims a stability, this is where that claim grows up.
Materials & Quantum · Space & Satellites · Digital & AI
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Equipment · Glasgow
Hydrodynamics tank complex
University of Strathclyde
A long tank for short tempers. Wave-making, towing, and the education of CAD models that have never met water.
Clean Energy & Net Zero · Mobility & Infrastructure · Space & Satellites
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Equipment · Cambridge
Photonics cleanroom
University of Cambridge
A cleanroom that still believes in yield. Waveguides, detectors, and the packaging that decides whether they leave the building.
Space & Satellites · Materials & Quantum · Digital & AI
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Equipment · Glasgow
Thermal-vacuum and vibration test facility
University of Glasgow
Where a payload finds out what it is. Chamber time, a vibration table, and staff who will not let you test without a written procedure.
Space & Satellites · Materials & Quantum · Advanced Manufacturing
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Collaboration · Glasgow / Cambridge / Harwell
Small satellite qualification consortium
University of Glasgow · Lumen Forge · Satellite Applications Catapult
Chamber slots, shared procedures, and an end to every small team writing the same thermal-vacuum document from scratch.
Space & Satellites · Advanced Manufacturing · Materials & Quantum
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Work package · Cambridge / facility TBC
Thermal-vacuum campaign for a 6U photonic payload
Lumen Forge · £18–32k
Book the chamber, write the procedure, and do not cook the optics. We have a payload. We need a grown-up campaign.
Space & Satellites · Materials & Quantum
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Work package · Cambridge / remote
Ground-segment prototype for a two-satellite constellation
Lumen Forge · £35–60k
Scheduling, telemetry and a tasking interface for two spacecraft. Boring, essential, and the difference between a constellation and a hobby.
Space & Satellites · Digital & AI
What you can search
Five kinds of thing, described properly
- Boffins
Academic and industrial experts, each with what they are looking for, what they would decline, and a realistic notice period. Search a technique, a material or a problem rather than a job title.
- Organisations
Universities, research centres and startups, with the routes in — contract research, facility access, studentships, published packages — and an honest note on how to approach them.
- Equipment
Facilities with lead times, what to bring, what you leave with and what they cannot do. The limitations are frequently the most useful field on the page.
- Collaborations
Open working groups and shared studies, with the contribution expected, the return, the commitment in hours, and the data and intellectual property terms stated up front.
- Work packages
Scoped jobs with a budget band, a deadline, deliverables, evaluation criteria and milestones. Apply directly; the publisher reads it, not us.
Searching well
A few habits that help
- Search the problem, not the discipline. 'Coating failure' and 'remaining life' will find more than 'materials science'.
- Try a piece of kit. Tank, chamber, hangar, cleanroom and microscope all return facilities and the people who run them.
- Filter by domain when you want to browse and leave it open when you want to be surprised. Cross-domain results are frequently the useful ones.
- If a result looks nearly right, read the 'not for' or 'limitations' field before you write. It will save you a fortnight.
- Found nobody? Tell us what you searched for. A gap in the catalogue is more useful to us than a compliment.