UK Space Jobs in London

• Canterbury
• £40,704 – £45,641 pa
• Mid-level
• Contract

Deliver research-led undergraduate teaching across Physics, Astronomy and Space Science while pursuing independent research and supporting grant applications. The role sits in the School of Engineering, Mathematics and Physics, with particular interest in spacecraft design and operations, space utilisation or space exploration, and includes assessment, feedback and pastoral support for students.

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior · manages people
• Permanent

Lead the Assembly, Integration and Testing campaign for a UK Active Debris Removal spacecraft, owning the plan from facility readiness through integration and environmental testing to launch delivery. The hands-on role covers TVAC, vibration, shock, acoustic and EMC campaigns, MGSE/EGSE oversight, and mentoring AIT engineers while coordinating UK and European test facilities and suppliers.

ECSS-E-ST-10-03 · MIL-STD-1540 · MGSE +1

• London
• On-site
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Hands-on procurement role supporting sourcing, supplier management and contracting for a space sustainability company, working with the Director of Procurement and Supply Chain. Involves negotiating supplier contracts, MSAs and SOWs, running day-to-day procurement operations, monitoring supplier performance and ensuring import/export compliance within a function being built from the ground up.

ERP

• London
• On-site
• Permanent

Operationally responsive member of the Astrodynamics team, monitoring orbit determination and prediction pipelines, identifying failure cases and improving them. Produces white papers and conference papers demonstrating SLR accuracy, supports customers with operational issues, and acts as key contact for ground station teams. Requires Python tooling for rigorous analysis of tracking data.

Python

• London
• On-site
• Permanent

Keeps a satellite laser-ranging platform and remote station software reliable, secure and repeatable, owning cloud infrastructure, CI/CD and infrastructure as code. Builds monitoring, logging and alerting across platform and stations, manages secure remote access and updates for a fleet of remote sites, and leads incident response and security hardening.

Terraform · Kubernetes · Docker +5

• Forfar
• Hybrid
• Mid-level

Acts as L3 escalation for satellite connectivity services, coordinating technical investigations across multidisciplinary teams and analysing system performance to spot anomalies. Enhances monitoring and reporting, mitigates early-life service failures, and supports user terminal releases while keeping automation central. Involves on-call rotation and travel mainly within the EU.

Ping · iPerf · tcpdump +6

• London
• Hybrid

Provides 24/7 flight dynamics operations support on a shift rota, performing on-console work and real-time mission support from launch to de-orbit. Configures, troubleshoots and monitors orbit determination, maneuver, trajectory and attitude planning software, including collision avoidance planning, and develops operational procedures.

GMAT · OREKIT · STK +5