Space is the next frontier for delivering military and economic advantage, such as providing real-time intelligence to inform troop movements or provide early warnings of severe weather.
For decades, BAE Systems has served as a proven partner and pioneering innovator on some of the most important space missions in history – from Apollo 11 to the Hubble Space Telescope to the James Webb Space Telescope. We’re continuing that heritage to ensure our customers can defend against evolving threats, explore the universe and protect our planet.
We deliver a broad range of products and technologies for civil, commercial, and defence applications – from radiation-hardened products, world-class instruments and spacecraft to reliable ground systems.
In recent years we have completed two acquisitions that have expanded our space capabilities.
With the most recent acquisition of Ball Aerospace (now the BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems sector) in the United States, we can deliver full-system space solutions, from resilient payloads, spacecraft, and mission operations that support national security to high-performance science instruments that enable insightful observations of our planet and universe. Capabilities include:
- Exquisite instrumentation and observatories
- Space vehicles, payloads and components
- Agile, configurable, high-power spacecraft
- Mission-level architecture design
- Advanced optics
- Electro-optical imaging sensors
- Precision thermal control for cooled instruments
- Scalable ground systems
- Data exploitation
Following our acquisition of In-Space Missions in the United Kingdom, building on our twenty plus years of ground based signal processing, we have the capability to design, build and operate satellites. Together, we are working towards a secure space domain, with a focus on global stability and global climate change to enable future prosperity. Capabilities include:
- Secure communications
- Space protection and advanced mission payload
- Digital optical communications
- Low earth orbit satellites
- Electro-optical satellites
- Compact spacecraft platforms
- Tracking, telemetry and command processors
- Software-defined reconfigurable radios