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UK Space Agency awards NAICKER SCIENTIFIC grant funding for satellite propulsion system development
Wednesday 3 December 2025 – The UK Space Agency has announced £17 million for seventeen UK space projects through its National Space Innovation Programme (NSIP), unveiled at Space Comm Expo in Glasgow.
The selected projects span five strategic themes critical to the UK’s space ambitions: space domain awareness, in-orbit servicing and manufacturing, Earth observation, satellite communications, and position, navigation and timing.
Protolaunch Ltd, with partners University of Southampton and NAICKER SCIENTIFIC LTD, receives £1 million to develop a water-based propulsion system that combines chemical and electric thrust for sustainable and dynamic satellite movement.
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Spacecraft payload development for the GMSS-1 in-orbit demonstration mission
Monday 7 July 2025 – NAICKER SCIENTIFIC was named as a payload provider on the "Give Me Some Space 1" (GMSS-1) In-Orbit Demonstration mission at an announcement event in the Houses of Parliament, Westminster.
GMSS-1 is fully initiated, integrated and managed by Exotopic and supported by Third Planet Orbital, Commercial Space Technologies Ltd. (CST) and Alden Legal, making it an industry-driven SME mission.
The company will be supplying multiple payloads related to custom designed space power electronics.
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UK Space Agency names NAICKER SCIENTIFIC the overall winner of the Aqualunar Challenge
Thursday 27 March 2025 – The SonoChem System by NAICKER SCIENTIFIC was named the overall winner of the Aqualunar Challenge by the UK Space Agency at a ceremony in Canada House in London’s Trafalgar Square.
35 teams submitted concept designs, 10 finalist teams were selected to further develop their proposed concepts.
NAICKER SCIENTIFIC was awarded the £150,000 first place prize.
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UK Space Agency Business Accelerator Programme
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Thursday 27 February 2025 – NAICKER SCIENTIFIC graduates from the UK Space Agency Accelerator LEO Programme.
LEO is a six-month programme designed to fundamentally change the way that business leaders grow and lead their businesses.
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UK Space Agency names NAICKER SCIENTIFIC a finalist in the Aqualunar Challenge
UK Space Agency names NAICKER SCIENTIFIC a finalist in the Aqualunar Challenge
Wednesday 24 July 2024 – NAICKER SCIENTIFIC LTD is one of ten cutting-edge teams to have been advanced to the finals of the Aqualunar Challenge.
The challenge is rewarding the development of new technologies that could reliably supply water to a permanent crewed base on the Moon by purifying ice frozen in the lunar soil.
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