Our primary mission is the collaborative development of new space businesses making maximum use of in-orbit demonstration.
In-Space personnel have expertise in developing missions, employing spacecraft from 3kg to 3000kg covering the full range of activities from concept and business case development, through bidding and winning the work, to delivering and operating the system.

Meet the team
The In-Space team has over 150 combined team-years of experience in military, institutional and commercial space activities covering Earth Observation, Sat Comms, Navigation, Space Science and Space Exploration.

In 2001, Doug moved to Surrey Satellites to become a spacecraft systems engineer. Over the following years, he developed several new spacecraft including Europe’s first Galileo demonstrator satellite, GIOVE-A; ran the Science and Exploration business unit; and delivered multiple satellites and optical imaging payloads including the UK’s first cubesat.
In 2015, Doug created In-Space Missions, a company founded to develop new space enabled services and offer expert consultancy to industry, academia and government. Since 2015, Doug has variously run the UK’s rocket programme; led the technical development of a disruptive innovation centre; developed a commercial demonstration platform for space; and initiated a company delivering real time video and immersive experiences from space. Doug also sits on a number of industry advisory boards and takes an active interest in STEAM outreach.

Prior to joining In-Space, Tony was the Engineering Director at SSTL responsible for all spacecraft and ground segment engineering on project delivery and R&D.
Tony started his career in systems and AOCS engineering and has taken every opportunity to expand his capabilities in technologies across avionics, operations, software and ground segments, and in missions and payloads including Earth Observation, Science, Telecommunications and Navigation. His experience ranges across institutional, experimental and commercial missions, and has included two patents and a NASA Group Achievement Award.
Tony sits on the STEM ESERO-UK steering board and is active in the strategy for growing the Hampshire and M3 LEP region.

Prior to joining In-Space, Ed had most recently been the Head of Mission Solutions and Innovation at Surrey Satellites where he managed the R&D activities of the World’s leading small satellite developer.
Ed started his career in RF and AIT and has worked on, led and managed every part of the satellite design, development, build, test and launch chain.

Kathryn holds a PhD in Astrodynamics, an MSc in Spacecraft Engineering, and graduated from the University of Cambridge (King’s College) with an MA in Astrophysics, where she worked on the University Women’s Executive. She is passionate about gender equality and equity, particularly in relation to STEM activities and tries to instil this passion in her young daughter with varying degrees of success.

A Fellow of Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, Sarah has deep financial monitoring expertise with a solid understanding of governance and controls required to ensure financial strength and business performance. She also has extensive experience of enabling disruptive innovation in heavily regulated technology environments. In addition to her role at In-Space Sarah holds a number of Non-Executive Directorships

Before joining the space sector, Melanie spent a decade in roles spanning M&A, procurement, supply chain management and strategy for Royal and Sun Alliance and Shell where she initially started as a graduate entrant in 2001.

Shefali was also seconded by the UK government to India on behalf of the UK space industry to help assess the scope and scale of market opportunities for UK space companies to export to India.
Shefali holds an MSc in Astronautics & Space Engineering and BSc in Aircraft Engineering. She is also a member of the Innovation Sub-group at Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership and advices on developing the strategy for Oxfordshire’s innovation activities. Shefali actively supports STEM activities and is a member of the ESERO-UK steering committee.


Prior to this, Nimal worked as a mission systems and concepts engineer at SSTL across a variety of activities including the Remove Debris and Carbonite-1 missions. He also led technical studies examining technology trends, novel mission/payload concepts and economic considerations of satellite imagery. He has hands-on experience of nanosatellite assembly, build and test and of launch site integration. He also previously worked as a technician supporting the development and test of space mission components.
Nimal holds Bachelors and Masters degrees from the York University in Toronto and completed a Space Studies Programme with the International Space University.

After pursuing academic study into space systems part-time, Andres joined In-Space to gain more hands-on experience in Space hardware design and build. He has led the design of key systems on the Faraday spacecraft and can usually be found at his prototype bench or in the In-Space lab.

Susan previously worked at Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd where she was their Exploration Lead and deputy Head of Science. Prior to this she had undertaken a variety of roles on numerous small satellite programmes. This included a wide variety of R&D activities, payload developments and leading the Thermal and Space Environment design for the GIOVE-A mission, the first Galileo pre-cursor spacecraft.
Susan holds a PhD in Spacecraft Systems Engineering, a Masters in Astronautics and Spacecraft Engineering and a BSc in Physics with Astrophysics. Her evident capability and enormous enthusiasm for Space Science and Engineering makes her the perfect Head of Outreach.

After starting his career training at Marconi Defence Systems in Portsmouth working on torpedoes, Brian then gained experience on video phones and inflight entertainment systems before transferring to Matra Marconi Space. He worked in the manufacturing department on Skynet 4 spacecraft before moving to Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd working on the UoSAT 12 platform.
At Surrey Brian progressed from contractor through to the Assembly, Integration and Test department where he soon become the Electrical/Mechanical Lead. He has worked on a range of spacecraft including the Galileo constellation and has supported clients all over the globe. Brian also has experience in leading and supporting launch campaigns in Russia, India and the US across a variety of launch vehicles.

Prior to that, he was Team Leader of the Groundsegments team, seeing the end-to-end lifecycle of numerous groundsegments across the world in support of the SSTL satellites. These multi-million pound groundsgements would include groundstation installations along with Spacecraft Operation Centres and Mission Operation Centres, providing spacecraft control and command as well as mission planning systems and data processing systems for the downloaded imagery. Whilst at SSTL, Andrew was also part of the team that successfully launched the first mobile phone into space as a component of the STRaND-1 cubesat.
He has a keen interest in demonstrating the benefits of space and satellite imagery in developing and limited-resource countries, having worked as a VSO volunteer in Ethiopia for three years developing the in-country computing resources and skills of medical and other staff at the Gondar University and Hospital.
Andrew holds a Masters in Computer Animation and Visualisation from Bournemouth University and a Degree in Computer Science from the University of Liverpool. He is also a member of the British Computer Society.

Hana has worked on a variety of projects ranging from day-to-day image scheduling to decommissioning a satellite and deploying the worlds first de-orbit sail on TDS-1 and Carbonite.
Hana joined In Space to pursue her goal of seeing a project from concept through to launch and start of service, and broaden her Operations skill-set.

Natalia is a mentor for UNOOSA Space4Women network and her goal is to support women to join the space industry making it diverse and inclusive.

As well as the day job, James managed various aerospace projects for the military around the world with a focus on integrating new technologies and processes to improve UK operational capability.
Following his military career, and after a brief stint in the UK film industry, James turned his efforts once again to the skies and joined In-Space Missions as Technical Project Manager.

Prior to In-Space, Amy worked at BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, gaining more than 10 years of service delivery experience. She designed, transitioned and delivered support services for enterprise cyber security solutions for both commercial and government customers. Having held a variety of positions from Support Engineer through to Service Delivery Manager and Service Architect, Amy understands services from the inside out.
Amy holds an MPhys in Physics with Nuclear Astrophysics and a PhD in Theoretical Nuclear Physics, both from the University of Surrey.

Before this, Richard worked as the lead flight software engineer responsible for developing the flight software architecture and Mission Control System used by the SSC. Past missions have included the UKSA’s Alsat-1N mission, Remove Debris, and Inflate Sail. He has hands-on experience in most areas of nanosatellite engineering from concept design through to end of life.
Richard has a Bachelor’s degree in physics from the Open University and completed a Masters in Space Technology at the University of Surrey.

Andrew holds a Masters in Astrophysics from the University of Edinburgh.



Matthew also spent a semester at Universitat Politècnica de València as part of an Erasmus exchange working on product development.

After a long term placement at QinetiQ Space UK, he went onto joining their Electric Propulsion team building and testing Gridded Ion engines. Louis was part of the production team which delivered T6 Ion thrusters for flight on ESA’s BepiColumbo mission to Mercury. He was also instrumental to the manufacture of their T7 prototype ring-cusp thruster. Louis has gained practical hands-on experience in space flight assembly. He now spends his days in the cleanroom, his natural environment, happily developing payload CubeSats.
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Our Network
We have proudly teamed with or provided consultancy and support to:
- Satellite Applications Catapult
- UK Space Agency
- CEOI-ST
- Effective Space Solutions
- British Broadcasting Corporation
- Cranfield University
- Surrey Satellite Technology
- Gerson Lehrman Group
- Lunar Mission One
- Space Net Ventures
- Methera Global Communications
- Roke Manor Research
- Magna Parva
- Oxford Space Systems
- Oxford University
- Oxford Innovation
- Swansea University
- Surrey Space Centre
- XL Catlin
- Clyde & Co.
- Spire Global
- KLEOS Space
- REWIND FX Ltd
- Space KTN
- Astroscale
- AlphaSights
- GomSpace
- Bright Ascension
- CST
- Inmarsat
- Telespazio Vega
- Heliaq
- Bae Systems
- CS Securities
- GomSpace
- Heliaq
- The Space Environment Research Centre
- University College London
- AlphaSights
- Lacuna Space
- Airbus Defence and Space
- BStar LLC
- Manchester University
- Silent Pool Distillers Ltd
- Enterprise M3 LEP
We are also proud to be a member of the SME Forum in UKspace, the trade association of the UK space industry.