Clyde Space founder and CEO, Craig Clark.

Clyde Space has built Scotland’s first satellite, UKube-1, which will be sent into space aboard a Russian Soyuz-2 rocket launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in September. Craig founded Clyde Space in 2005 and the company is now one of the most successful suppliers of small satellite and CubeSat systems in the World, holding a 40 percent market share for nanosatellites, known as CubeSats. Clyde Space’s small, but highly sophisticated CubeSats, can carry multiple payloads and they are being applied to multiple applications from astrophysics research, to tracking ships or wildfires, or taking high-resolution photographs. The company works closely with the U.K. Space Agency and its global customer base that includes the likes of NASA, U.S. Air Force and MIT.

The company’s growth continues as it develops cutting-edge products for the space market and it now employs more than 25 highly skilled, full-time staff. In the last six months the company has doubled its order intake, winning more than $1,000,000 worth of new orders in the last three months alone, and expects to grow its turnover this year by 50 percent, based on its current order book.

Craig has a BEng in Electrical Power Engineering from the University of Glasgow and an MSc in Satellite Engineering from the University of Surrey. Before establishing Clyde Space, Craig was employed by for Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) for 11 years from 1994, where he worked as a technical manager on more than 20 space missions.