Shipley firm receives £200k funding boost for space technology development

Shipley based electronics business Slipstream Engineering Design has been given £200K funding to develop adaptable radio technology for use in space.

The business has become one of just five organisations in the UK, and the only one in Yorkshire, to receive a share of £1million from the Space to Innovate Campaign’s Bravo Drop funding.

Dr. Mike Roberts, Slipstream Engineering Design technical director and co-founder, said: “The Space to Innovate Campaign aims to find and fund solutions to major space hurdles to promote space resilience and operational effectiveness. Bravo Drop is the second ‘challenge drop’, which invited innovators to submit technologies and solutions to help overcome specified challenges.

Space to Innovate - Bravo Drop is a collaboration between the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, the UK Space Agency, and the Defence and Security Accelerator.