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Mission Architecture refinement study

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Supplier(s)
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd
Value
£41,666
Topic
Aircraft and spacecraft
Published
31 March 2026

Tender description

The University of Portsmouth has procured a mission refinement study to support the continued development of the CosmoCube space mission. This requirement comprises specialist spacecraft platform engineering and system level design services including detailed mission trade off studies, finalisation of platform-payload interface definitions and refinement of key spacecraft subsystems. The work builds directly on prior UK Space Agency funded design phases and is essential to progress the mission to its next stage of development. ## Contract award

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published31 March 2026
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date31 March 2026
  3. Completed: Contract expiry date31 March 2026

About the buyer

University of Portsmouth is a higher education provider, buying through a centralised procurement and contracting team in its Finance department. The University is a member of the Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (SUPC), a major framework body for UK higher education. SUPC membership also gives access to London Universities Purchasing Consortium (LUPC) frameworks. Transactional purchasing also runs alongside this centralised function within professional services.

Over the past 5 years, most of University of Portsmouth's contract awards have been in architectural and engineering services, software and information systems and IT services.

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