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Kingston University London

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Kingston University London is divided into five faculties with each faculty offering undergraduate and postgraduate courses. The University’s Space interests are encompassed within the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing (SEC) which was formed in 2011 to bring together the interdisciplinary research from eight Schools, encouraging partnerships between academia and commerce.

Kingston University London has an excellent suite of space facilities that are being developed and/or are currently online for launcher and in-space propulsion related research and development. The team is happy to work collaboratively with external academics and commercial users. Our current facilities include;

  • An indoor hybrid and bipropellant propulsion test facility
  • An 8m catapult micro-gravity drop tower
  • A machine learning propulsion laboratory
  • Future facilities Kingston University London hope to develop over the next five year
  • An electric propulsion vacuum test facility
  • A Tx/Rx (transmit and receive) satellite ground station (currently we only have a receive functionality)
  • A cleanroom for space flight assembly
  • A vibration table for launch and flight environmental testing
  • Current facilities will be available for bookings from September 2020 as they are undergoing refurbishment work presently.

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Facilities

  • Indoor Rocket Propulsion Test Facilities
    The ‘Rocket Lab’ within the SEC has hybrid and bi-propellant rocket test facilities for research into rocket engine design and can provide a range of high quality evaluation and data analysis options.
  • Kingston Machine Learning Propulsion Laboratory
    In collaboration with the Kingston University London Department of Computing, experimental data from any firing tests you conduct can be analysed using developed neural networking and deeplearning algorithms for deeper understanding and analysis.
  • Kingston Micro-Gravity Drop Tower
    Kingston University London’s drop tower is designed to deliver short duration periods of microgravity for small to medium space experiments.