
Challenging environments
Facilities
Facilities
- a radio communications lab, with software radio devices and anechoic chamber
- an aerial platform lab, which supports our activities relating to development and test of bespoke payloads (housed in the Institute for Safe Autonomy)
- an underwater lab and tank facility, allowing using to develop and test state of the art underwater networks (housed in the Institute for Safe Autonomy)
- Helikite tethered aerostat systems and test facility, allowing payloads of up to 17kg to be tested at low altitudes
- an electromagnetics lab with reverberation chamber
- a full six-sided acoustically anechoic chamber
- an interactive multi-channel loudspeaker listening room
- a standards-compliant listening space
- three professional recording studios.
Our links with centres, institutes and professional bodies
Centres and institutes
- Centre for High Altitude Platform Applications
- Department of Chemistry
- Department of Computer Science
- Department of Environment and Geography
- EPSRC Quantum Communications Hub
- Institute for Safe Autonomy
- Stockholm Environment Institute
- Wolfson Atmospheric Science Institute
- YESI
- York Centre for Quantum Technologies
Professional bodies
- HAPS Alliance
- Near Space Group
- Cambridge Wireless
- Dynamic Spectrum Alliance
- Ofcom
- International Telecommunications Union-Radio
- 3GPP especially non-terrestrial networks
- ETSI
Academic institutions
- EPSRC Quantum Communications Hub
- University of Newcastle
- Zhejiang University, China
- Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia