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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.

Further information: 

• Exotopic GMSS-1 press release

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. 

The company was awarded the £150,000 first place prize. 

Further information: 

• Aqualunar Challenge 
• UKSA Original Press Release
• Aqualunar Challenge Final Report
• The Guardian article
• IChemE article

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.

Further information: 

• UKSA Accelerator

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.

Further information: 

• Aqualunar Challenge 
• The Guardian article