Professional Development.
Plastron provide the leading training packages for companies involved in New Space.
Our training focuses on upholding proven best practice in engineering activities as well as motivating awareness and pragmatic responses to potential safety concerns that arise during test programmes.
Test engineering is the bedrock of the R&D, manufacturing, assembly and launch of space hardware: the amount of testing undertaken is directly proportional to the functional application and life expectancy of the technology.
Our training packages are designed for a range of users: whether existing operators in the sector, newly qualified sector entrants or professionals transitioning into Space. Some require basic STEM experience, some are more reliant on essential engineering skills.
Upstream
Our new, high-quality online & immersive training programme in systems engineering test best practice.
Propulsion Test Safety
From first principles for assuring safe and productive design & test of propulsion systems.
Launch Operations
Understand the full process of Launch ConOps – from pre-launch to post-flight facility set-down.
Bespoke Training
Fully customized training programs designed specifically for your organization's unique needs and objectives.
Why is our training effective and relevant to commercial organisations participating in New Space?
Plastron embeds skills in the space industry in a way that ensures quality engineering practices align with safety objectives. This underpins our commitment to the UK and international space sectors – space for the next generation.
Why? This is important because the space industry is undergoing a significant step-change which has been building over the past 15 years. With the advent of European launch – and the introduction, globally, of micro and small launchers – there is a groundswell of interest for sovereign and international, collaborative efforts to exploit space commercially at unprecedented levels.
NewSpace, which typifies this industrial transformation by name, still draws on the experience and expertise of a legacy which dates back to the advent of the space race 70 years ago. Now, with a shift towards rapid prototyping, higher-risk innovation and the sheer pace of action, the legacy knowledge of the past is necessary to avoid errors being repeated, which pose risks to both human activity and the technology they work with.
Plastron Immersive training and skills support is designed to bridge this gap, to leverage the knowledge and expertise of the past and ensure it is embedded in the minds and practices of the current and future workforces.