CEO at Clyde Space Ltd
Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Non-Executive Director at Puurgen
- CEO at Clyde Space Ltd
- Past
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- Power Systems Team Leader at SSTL
- Power Systems Team Leader at Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd
- Education
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- University of Surrey
- The University of Glasgow
- Connections
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- Industry
- Defense & Space
- Websites
Craig Clark’s Summary
Having graduated from the University of Glasgow with an honours degree in Electrical Power Engineering in 1994, I landed a job in the power team at the then fledgling space company, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL). During my 11 years at SSTL, I had the privilege of working on over 20 missions with an excellent engineering team.
My work at SSTL mainly involved the design and build of small satellite power systems, but there was also opportunity to be involved in mission design, spacecraft test, on-orbit operations, company management, etc. Some of the missions I worked on where FASat (Chilean Air force), Clementine (French MOD), PICOSat (USAF), UoSat-12 (Internally funded), SNAP-1 (internally funded), Disaster Monitoring Constellation (Including NigeriaSat-1, BilSat-1, UKDMC, AlSat-1) and GIOVE-A.
The experience I gained from SSTL and my peers there enabled me to strike out on my own and build a spacecraft hardware company in Glasgow, Scotland called Clyde Space Ltd. Clyde Space is also the first spacecraft hardware company to be started by an ex-SSTL employee.
The aim of Clyde Space is to provide a supply of reliable, affordable and high performance spacecraft components. For small satellite primes, it is often difficult to find a subsystem supplier that is able to meet the cost, performance and schedule of a small satellite programme. Because of our specific experience of small satellites, providing subsystems that meet this criteria is what Clyde Space do best.
Craig Clark’s Specialties:
Spacecraft Electrical Power System design
Analogue electronics design
Power elecrtonics design
Systems design of electrical power systems for spacecraft
Small Satellite mission design
Actuator design for attitude control of small spacecraft.
Battery selection, design and build for small spacecraft
Solar array design and build for small spacecraft.
