Company Profile
Plastron Training has been providing dedicated training to the space sector since 2021, when it set up a training partnership, the Space Industry Centre for Excellence (SiC4E), with European Astrotech Ltd. This partnership leverages combined expertise to provide hybrid, practical training in Space Engineering Test, Launch Site Operations, Launch Campaign ConOps and Hazardous Handling Best Practice. They are also experienced in multichannel service development. Training course participants include Further Education (250+), European Primes (10), Spaceflight Regulator (10).
The team work concurrently as engineering experts in the space sector in the UK and internationally. In 2024, Plastron secured a major grant from the UK Space Agency to develop an advanced training programme in Engineering Test Best Practices. This will be developed and delivered in partnership with Latitude 51 Space Systems, the Space Skills Alliance and Plymouth & South Devon Freeport. The augmentation of SiC4E increases the skills and capabilities in terms of what types of business support are available.
Plastron UK has been providing leading advisory and product design support to the UK Space sector since 2020. Leaning on their knowledge and experience in launch operations, they have designed advanced engineering environments for space hardware handling for UK Launch operators and advise on complex supply chain design.
Services Offered
The combination of expertise in Plastron and the Space Industry Centre for Excellence ensures the following areas of expert business and technical support are available from our extended team:
Training
- Hazardous & safety engineering
- Developing mission Concept of Operations
- Launch campaign planning
- Engineering test best practice for new entrants
- Risk management of space hardware development
- L4-L7 and early careers onboarding for space sector roles
- Start-up staff onboarding for space sector roles
- Skills transition onboarding for space sector roles
- In orbit & Space science planning
Technical design & advisory
- Engineering Mission planning for R&D, product development and launch
- Safety-led design of space hardware
- Safety-led design and evaluation of test environments & test stands
- Digital engineering platform design
