Strategic Facilities

The Catapult’s best-in-class facilities are an outstanding resource for UK space sector companies big and small, national institutions, universities and international trailblazers.

Disruptive Innovation for Space Capability (DISC)

The standalone DISC facility on Harwell Campus continues to house a range of facilities to support the design, manufacture and testing of products for deployment into complex environments. With access to equipment and expertise, teams are enabled to take an R&D project from proof of concept through to full-sized prototyping, with sufficient scaling to undertake end-customer validation. Over these past 12 months, DISC supported customers wishing to use and access the technical facilities. The environment combining a Vibration Table and Thermal Oven became operational in 2020 and has already been used by numerous organisations on a short-term basis. National service offerings with collaborations in the North-East of England, Buckinghamshire and Hampshire are also currently being explored.