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About us

Unleashing the ingenuity of engineers

to push frontiers

The Craft Crew

We are a highly-accomplished team of problem-solving engineers with expertise spanning space systems, quantum technology, optics, operations, autonomy, embedded systems and data analysis. 

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Our ethos

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Employee ownership and engagement

At Craft Prospect, we are deeply committed to the practice of peer-to-peer learning. Since our inception, it has been our vision to put ownership of the business into the hands of the engineers who make everything we do possible. As of 2024, over 20% of the business is already in employee hands. 

Diversity and female engineering leadership

The Craft team is proudly diverse by sexual orientation, ethnicity, and neurotype. 10% of our workforce are highly-skilled migrants, and we come from backgrounds spanning Asia, Africa, and Europe, as well as plenty of homegrown Scottish talent. With a 40% female management team, we are well above the gender leadership benchmark for engineering organisations.

Talent

We have consulted on design and operations for missions sponsored by both the UK Space Agency (UKSA) and the European Space Agency (ESA). 90% of our workforce have higher degrees, including 4 PhDs. We actively and proudly recruit and train talent from Scottish universities, with 80% of our team’s degree work completed here.
Community outreach and paying it forward is central to the Craft mindset. We are proud of the Govan community where our office and lab are based. Our team is active in schools outreach to teach children about the wonderful world of engineering. We have supported homelessness through the Big Sleepout and local theatre, and we love to work with local Glasgow charity The Children’s Wood

Outreach

Based in Glasgow

Craft Prospect was founded in 2017 in Glasgow, Scotland. Once a global shipbuilding hub, Glasgow is now the SmallSat capital of Europe. With our offices located in the iconic Fairfield Heritage Centre, which lies at the heart of Glasgow’s shipbuilding history, we are proud to honour our amazing city’s engineering roots by bringing it into the space age!

Our team on the road

At Craft Prospect, we understand that a company is nothing without its team. We are proud of our crew’s visionary talent, nimble intelligence, innovative ideas, and all the incredible work they do.

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Lucy

4S Symposium, 2024

Lucy, our Responsive Operations Lead, presents our work on the Salient project, an AI-powered camera dedicated to on-board processing.
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Georgia, Kairavi, Caroline and Lauryn 

UKSpace Conference, 2023

Georgia, Lauryn and Caroline supported our fabulous intern Kairavi during her poster presentation on thermal testing automation at the 2023 UK Space Conference in Belfast.
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Craig

International Space Summit, 2024

Craig, our Quantum Tech Cell Lead, presents our flagship Ops-Sat VOLT mission at the International Space Summit in Seoul.
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