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Visionaries &
Instigators

  • Mission Creators
  • Payload Optimisers
  • Requirements Scopers

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System
Experts

  • Payload Designers
  • Software Integrators
  • Development Testers

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Integrators &
Operators

  • Small Constellations
  • In-Orbit Demonstrators
  • Sensitive Payloads
Routes to Space

Services

Space Engineering Services

Collaborating to derive Technical Requirement Specifications based on mission goals, enabling confident, efficient and successful projects.

FlatSat

FlatSat

FlatSat access to "Try-Before-You-Buy" enabling economical Hardware-In-the-Loop design, development and testing to promote informed procurement.

Satellite Bus

Satellite Bus

Off-The-Shelf functionally standardised small satellites buses that use flight and test proven architecture, ready to integrate payloads with confidence.

Latest Update

Q4 2024

Cutting Metal

TPOD

Engineering activities are well underway for the production of the new Third Planet Orbital Deployer (TPOD), focused on steamlining mass, manufacturing, and processes compared to current equivalents. Hardware is being prepared for Space-Comm Expo in March 2025.

Upcoming Events

Upcoming Events

11-12 Mar: Exhibiting at Space-Comm Expo in London.

19-20 Mar: Attending Farnborough International Space Show.

16 Jul: Attending UK Space Conference.

About

Loughborough and Leicester Location

Third Planet Orbital has been established in the UK to address needs apparent in the global Space Industry. The business directly addresses what the UK government has identified as being of strategic importance, and contributes to regional development and socio-economic benefits (especially high tech employment and retention).