Schools × Industry × Universities

Students don't just learn about space.They run a space agency.

The ambitions for space are growing faster than the workforce needed to deliver them. Spacecrafted helps build that pipeline — connecting young people with real missions, increasing responsibility and the people and opportunities of the space sector.

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Why space?

Global problems need a global view.

Climate, communications, navigation, food, infrastructure, disaster response and the environment do not stop at national borders. To tackle global problems, we need to see the whole Earth. That is why space matters to everyone.

The connection

Schools. Spacecrafted. Industry.

Spacecrafted gives education and the space ecosystem a practical reason to work together.

Schools & young people

Curiosity, different strengths and a need for sustained, inclusive enrichment connected to the real world.

Spacecrafted

The agency structure, specialist teams, progressive missions, responsibility, evidence and a pathway from following to creating.

Industry & universities

Authentic challenges, expertise, research, funding, feedback and onward routes into apprenticeships, study and careers.

How it works

Five teams. Five levels. One agency.

A Spacecrafted class becomes one agency made up of five interdependent specialist teams. Each team has its own mission, but no team can succeed alone: launch depends on measurement, payload and recovery; Command & Control coordinates readiness and makes GO / NO-GO decisions; Mission Communications captures evidence and tells the agency story.

Across five levels, teacher scaffolding reduces and student responsibility grows — from following a first mission to responding to increasingly authentic external briefs.

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Command & Control

Launch Services

Mission Instrumentation

Satellite Services

Mission Communications

Level 1 · TroposphereFollow

Level 2 · StratosphereContribute

Level 3 · MesosphereInvestigate

Level 4 · ThermosphereCoordinate

Level 5 · ExosphereCreate

Start with a bottle rocket. Progress towards an increasingly independent space agency.

Why now?

Structured enrichment. Connected to industry.

England's enrichment direction increasingly values sustained, inclusive experiences, pupil leadership, skills and external partnerships. Spacecrafted turns those ambitions into something young people can actually do.

DfE Enrichment

Gatsby

CREST

DofE Skills

Aligned, not accredited: Spacecrafted can support work with these frameworks; each scheme retains its own requirements and approval processes.

For schools & youth groups

Give young people real responsibility.

Progressive STEM enrichment, meaningful roles, employer and university connections, teamwork, project management and visible progression. Routes include technical careers, apprenticeships and university.

Participation is intended to be free to host organisations, funded through partners.

For industry & universities

Help build the workforce your ambitions will need.

Fund participation. Bring a real challenge. Share expertise. Meet teams. Review their thinking. Create pathways into apprenticeships, study, work experience and careers.

Fund the pipeline. Set the missions. Open the pathways.

A practical partnership offer

Don't build another schools programme. Plug into Spacecrafted.

Spacecrafted can provide the schools, skills, inclusion and outreach layer for an employer, university, regional cluster or funded consortium.

Fund

Support an agency, cohort or pilot so participation stays free to young people and hosts.

Challenge

Bring an authentic problem. Spacecrafted turns it into an accessible cross-team mission.

Progress

Add people, feedback, mentoring, visits and onward opportunities as students become ready.

Working demonstrator

Don't just read about it. Enter the agency.

Explore the live student workspace, teams, missions and progression.

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Working demonstrator

Explore the student workspace, teams, missions and progression.

Your challenge. Their mission.

Give young people a problem worth solving.

An Earth-observation challenge, for example, can become one mission across all five teams: mission priorities, deployment, instrumentation, data use and communication. Industry makes the problem authentic. Spacecrafted makes it educationally usable. Young people own the response.

The wider platform

Spacecrafted is the first Moonshot.

The same model can later connect young people and partners around other fundamental challenges. Spacecrafted is the live focus now.

Robotic Missions
Autonomous systems and mission trade-offs.

Climate Resilience
Helping communities adapt to a changing climate.

Urban Food Security
Rethinking where and how cities produce food.

Bring something real.

A school? Start an agency. An employer? Bring a challenge or fund a cohort. A university? Bring research, expertise or progression. Building a consortium? Bring Spacecrafted in as the schools and future-skills layer.

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