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Who We Are

About Us

40+

Years

28

Products

171

Launches

2

Locations

What we take pride in

Trustworthiness

We prioritize honesty, integrity, and transparency in all our interactions, ensuring that our customers, partners, and stakeholders can rely on us to deliver on our promises.

Dependability

With our heritage, we are dedicated to providing products and services that our customers can count on, delivering them reliably and consistently to support their missions in both familiar and uncharted territory.

Incremental Modernity

We embrace the spirit of incremental modernity, combining the reliability of OldSpace with the innovation of NewSpace. Our steps beyond LEO are taken with consideration and care.

Propulsive

We are propulsive, and we move ever forward. We do not pause on the path to deep space, exceeding expectations and challenges.

Accountability

We take full responsibility for our actions and decisions, ensuring that we meet our commitments to our customers and partners, and continuously improve our processes to deliver the best possible results

Heerle, The Netherlands

Situated in three buildings near the Belgium border and close to major population centers and space integration centers, the Bradford site in Heerle, Netherlands is the largest of our sites with the most diverse set of activities. The Heerle site is a fully operational facility with on-site design, engineering, production and both electrical and mechanical test capabilities. The site also has several large cleanrooms, machining, and production planning spaces. We also support in-house development for mechanics, software and electronics. The Heerle site provides management and integration oversight for propulsion systems as well as marketing, business development and adminstration for Bradford Space’s operations. Products supported at this site include our AOCS line (sun sensors and reaction wheels), propulsion components and subsystems (pressure transducers, flow control units, cool gas systems and other subsystems), thermal subsystems as well as the Bradford Workspaces product line.

Luxembourg

The Luxembourg team, based on the vibrant Belval technology campus, is responsible for the design and production of our deep-space avionics and Comet water thrusters. Featuring a hybrid engineering model that captures the dynamic innovation spirit of the "NewSpace" market while also adhering to a quality-driven foundation to provide confident reliability of products, this site is creating cutting-edge yet affordable and easy-to-integrate smallsat propulsion and spacecraft control electronics. A multifunctional team, responsible for both development and manufacture, allows for robust development and rapid iterations of hardware and software.

Leadership

Patrick van Put
Managing Director
    • Responsible for all European operations
    • 29 years of experience in the Aerospace field, primarily in propulsion markets.
    • Degrees from University of Antwerp and Brussels, Belgium
Philippe Gnemmi
Site Director, The Netherlands
    • Responsible for the Bradford Engineering BV operations in The Netherlands
    • 22 years of experience in the Aerospace field with satellite manufacturer and sub-systems provider
    • Degrees from INSA Lyon
Kateryna Aheieva
Site Director, Luxembourg
    • Responsible for Bradford Space's Luxembourg operation
    • 15 years of experience in various space roles internationally
    • PhD in Electrical Engineering
    • Degree from Kyushu Institute of Technology (Japan)