From advanced composites to in‑space logistics.

A European engineering company building the systems that move beyond LEO — engineering services, advanced composites, the CONVERj digital-engineering platform and the GravityWorks in-space production bus.

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Our Mission

Build the European engineering base — and the vehicles — that make routine logistics beyond Earth orbit possible.

From advanced composites and digital engineering today, to in-space production platforms tomorrow — one shared technology stack across every product line. A specialist space-engineering company building the delivery layer for missions beyond LEO.

What We Offer

Three connected offerings. One shared engineering base.

Mission architecture, systems engineering and AIT — on fixed-scope contracts.

We act as an embedded senior engineering team for missions that need architecture, convergence or AIT capability they don't yet have in-house. Every engagement starts with a short scoping call and moves to a fixed-price contract with binding deliverables — no open-ended retainers, no T&M surprises.

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Mission & system architecture

Concept design, requirements flow-down, architecture trades, flight-credible baseline.

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Trade studies & convergence

Multi-architecture analysis on CONVERj — ranked KPIs in days, not weeks.

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Subsystem engineering

Structures, propulsion, avionics, thermal — from an experienced launch-vehicle and satellite team.

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AIT & test campaigns

Integration, qualification and environmental test planning — Orbex, Avio, DLR experience.

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Technical governance

Design reviews, requirements management and SE governance for primes, agencies and startups.

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Digital-engineering uplift

Stand up SysON / MBSE workflows; connect them to analytical models via the CONVERj bridge.

Hardware & software that rewrites the rules.

Carbon-fibre cryogenic tanks and COPVs designed and manufactured for launch vehicles, in-space propulsion and high-pressure storage — alongside the CONVERj digital-engineering platform built in-house to design them.

Our team has shipped flight composite tanks at Orbex and brings that hardware experience to a UK manufacturing base in Forres, Moray.

Star Industry composites manufacturing facility — Forres, Moray
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  • Linerless CFRP cryogenic tanks (LOX / LH2 / LCH4 service)
  • Composite overwrapped pressure vessels (COPVs)
  • Bespoke composite primary structures
  • Design, analysis, manufacture, qualification — under one team
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Manufacturing base — Forres, Moray
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Flight composite tanks shipped at Orbex
Cryo
Linerless · LOX / LH2 / LCH4

A trade-study engine built in-house. One architecture JSON, coupled subsystem models, ranked KPIs across every variant. Replaces the spreadsheet stack that bottlenecks every Phase A study — and the SysML interface drives a robust baseline throughout your system lifecycle.

  • Single source of truth — one architecture JSON
  • Coupled convergence — full chain re-runs each iteration
  • Ranked KPIs — cross-variant by any metric
  • SysON round-trip — no out-of-loop drift
CONVERj architecture dashboard

GravityWorks — an in-space production platform.

A dockable, reusable host bus delivering kilowatts of power and a regulated thermal / microgravity environment to customer payloads in orbit. Designed for in-space manufacturing today — with the same platform extending to data-centre, biomedical and semiconductor hosting tomorrow.

Pathfinder → v1 establishes the multi-bay architecture. From there, v2 (high-precision microgravity) and v4 (dedicated data centre) are parallel variants of v1 — v3 is the evolution of v2 to multi-use bays.

Platform Versions
Pathfinder
Single-use production · relaxed µg
v1
Multi-bay production · data-centre reuse
v2
Multi-bay + high-precision µg
v3 evolution of v2
Multi-use bays via RPO
v4 parallel variant of v2
Dedicated in-space data centre
Main path Parallel variant
Roadmap & Vision

Bootstrapping from composites to in-orbit production.

Each phase enables the next. The composites and digital-engineering capabilities established today provide the architectural baseline for the GravityWorks platform — which in turn scales into a recurring in-orbit production capability.

Horizon 1 · Near-Term
2026 – 2027

Composites manufacturing + digital engineering

  • Stand up UK composites facility (Forres, Moray)
  • First CFRP-tank and COPV deliveries
  • Establish CONVERj as a recurring digital-engineering and consultancy capability
  • Validate the engineering-services engagement model
Horizon 2 · Mid-Term
2027 – 2029

GravityWorks production platform — first flight

  • Close engineering deltas against the platform baseline
  • First-flight hosting service for in-space manufacturing payloads
  • Composites & CONVERj capabilities operating at scale
Horizon 3 · Long-Term
2029 +

Recurring in-orbit production at scale

  • Second-generation GravityWorks platform in service
  • Hosted payload classes expand: data, biomedical, semiconductor
  • Recurring in-orbit manufacturing service
  • European platform infrastructure for the in-space economy
Let’s Work Together

Bring your mission. Together we’ll
CONVERj
on your architecture.

Two-week scoping phase to translate your objective into a structured trade study — delivered as ranked architectures in CONVERj, with a trajectory and performance baseline attached.

Start Scoping → Explore CONVERj