John Paffett

Chief Architect and Evangelist @Open Source Satellite

Farnborough, GB

Our vision is to make space more accessible. Our mission is to stimulate utilisation and exploitation, new applications and services, and promote responsible and sustainable use of space. Embracing the open source doctrine, our goal is to develop a 25-250kg class fully open source satellite platform and to make the design readily available to all. A performant microsatellite platform which will provide a foundation on which future systems can be built. While we will be publishing information on our design and activities as we progress, our aim is to make the entire satellite platform design available to the community, once the first platform has been flown. This will include the design drawings, schematics, parts lists, board layouts, software source code and assembly information. For those that want access to the detailed design information sooner, we are planning to share the material earlier to sponsors and partners who are aiding in the development.

University of Surrey

PhD, Electronics

University of Surrey

B.Eng, Electronic Engineering