Plastron is growing

Last year we established PlastronCRO, a Contract Research Organisation exclusively focused on microgravity life sciences. 

Rather than address the need for bespoke mission hardware or systems, we consider this new economy as an emerging ecosystem. As a result, since 2024, we've been working with academic space science experts and the nascent supply chain supporting this sector to design a best-in-class service layer for end-to-end mission delivery and support. 

Fast-forward to October 2025 and with the support of Space East Space South Central, STFC and Satellite Applications Catapult Beyond Earth Network, we took a significant step forward by setting a goal of bringing the Life Science sector together with microgravity experts to explain, explore and discover opportunities for collaborating in this exciting arena.

This week, with our partners-in-crime, Starlab, BioOrbit, Latitude, Space Cargo Unlimited, Frontier Space and University of Liverpool, as well as new friends from Babraham Research Campus, we held our first event of 2026: Microgravity: Just Another Research Environment.

Far be it for us to impose our opinion on how successful the event was, we'll leave it to friends and family tagged here and in the images to provide a first-hand account of the day.

For PlastronCRO, this is the start of an ambitious and very exciting journey working with our partners to commoditise and commercialise high-quality access to microgravity for Life Science applications. And in the process, demonstrating that #Europe has the capability already in the market and in development to achieve this - soon. That's not virtue signalling, that's stating industrial reality. 

Let's hope @HMG recognises the strength and value of this market as they navel-gaze their way to understanding the economic opportunity Microgravity Life Sciences stands for in the UK Space Sector.

#SpaceForTheNextGeneration