Oxford Space Systems / January 2026
Mechanical Design Lead for the deployable X-band antenna now operating aboard SSTL’s CarbSAR spacecraft.
Mission profile
Spacecraft mechanisms, robotics, embedded control and representative test hardware.
Active Debris Removal
Lead mechanical designer for the COSMIC mission, Astroscale’s spacecraft solution for the UK’s national Active Debris Removal mission, developing rendezvous and proximity operations hardware and robotic-arm technology.
Mission development / Pre-launch
Commercial end-of-life servicing
Senior Mechanical Designer for ELSA‑M, developing the spacecraft structural design through Critical Design Review and supporting qualification testing. The 520 kg servicer is now preparing for launch to demonstrate removal of a prepared Eutelsat OneWeb satellite.
Mission development / Pre-launch
Airbus · LARAD · RISMA · VISPA
At TISICS, I supported Airbus’s LARAD and RISMA robotic-arm programmes, designing and procuring lightweight metal-matrix-composite components for the manipulators.
Later, at Astroscale, I contributed to VISPA by developing the LAR capture mechanics at the Satellite Applications Catapult’s In-Orbit Servicing and Manufacturing facility.
Supporting flight-software development alongside electronics engineering, mechanical design and purpose-built testbeds. Taking hardware through environmental qualification including vibration, TVAC and EMI testing.
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Designed and built 3D-printed and scaled servicer and client-spacecraft models for trade-show demonstrations and GNC and computer-vision simulations. In the testbeds, the client models are manipulated using three-axis motorised gimbals that I designed, built and integrated; I also developed the embedded firmware and operator UI used to control them.
Astroscale · Didcot
Mechanical design for active debris removal and in-orbit servicing, plus representative test assets and mechatronic sensor-test systems.
Oxford Dynamics · Didcot
Led mechanical development of AI-enabled robotic platforms, including STRIDER for operation in hazardous biological, chemical, nuclear and radiation-exposed environments.
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Oxford Space Systems · Didcot
Mechanical Design Lead for the Wrapped‑Rib antenna; technical leadership across deployable structures, analysis, qualification planning and customer reviews.
TISICS · Farnborough
Designed and built this dual-fuel satellite tank assembly to demonstrate diffusion-bonded manufacture, replacing weaker welded seams with fully integral joints. The wider role covered full-lifecycle R&D in lightweight metal-matrix composites, CAD, FEA, thermal analysis and CNC manufacture.
Dual-fuel satellite tank
Diffusion-bonded construction replaces weaker welded seams with integral joints
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CAD, mechanisms, drawing to BS 8888, design for manufacture, structural and thermal analysis.
Firmware, sensor integration, motor control, PCB-level development and operator interfaces.
Representative testbeds, procedures, vibration, thermal vacuum, EMI and subsystem validation.
Work-package ownership, multidisciplinary reviews, stakeholder trade-offs, mentoring and delivery.
Co-author, Self-healing of structural carbon fibres in polymer composites, Cogent Engineering 7.1 (2020).
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