Mission
Our objective is simple but ambitious: to prepare young people to think, work, and collaborate like space professionals — in a way that is practical, challenging, empowering, and sustainable.
Each club forms its own Space Agency. Students organise into specialist teams that mirror real space organisations: Command & Control, Launch Services, Mission Instrumentation (Micro:bit and Raspberry Pi), Satellite Services, and Mission Communications. Together, they plan missions, build capability, manage risk, collect data, and communicate results.
Teams develop their expertise through five progressive challenge levels. These levels act as scaffolding — a fast, supportive route to the right skills, safety mindset, and professional ways of thinking. Once teams are operating confidently, the scaffolding falls away and agencies move into open missions, innovation, and inter-school collaboration and competition.
Agencies showcase what they can do, take on increasingly complex missions, and learn from each other using real data, real constraints, and real trade-offs. This isn’t “playing space”; it’s rehearsal for the real world — systems thinking, decision-making under uncertainty, and teamwork across disciplines.
For the space sector, Space.craft.ed creates a visible, inclusive talent pipeline. Students gain early exposure to the full range of roles that make space missions succeed — not just engineering and coding, but project management, operations, communications, data interpretation, and strategy. They learn how organisations actually function, and where they might one day fit.
Space.craft.ed is ideal for school clubs, STEM lessons, Duke of Edinburgh Skills, and Scouts. Space Cadets develop engineering and scientific method, data literacy and visualisation, storytelling, project management, strategic thinking, problem solving, communication, and presentation skills — while building confidence, leadership, and strong friendships.
By making the whole space ecosystem visible — from launch pad to mission control to public communication — Space.craft.ed helps students who may never have considered a career in space see that there is a place for them, and a clear path to get there.
Explore the Teams
- Command & Control — safety, planning, decision making
- Launch Services — rockets, pads, lift capability
- Mission Instrumentation — sensors, experiments, payload goals
- Satellite Services — payload housing, separation & recovery
- Mission Communications — data visualisation & story telling
space.craft.ed — Team Capability Star
Each team is given a set of challenges to develop their capabilities and experience. Together these capabilities build a strong and capable group.
Use the sliders to simulate how the individual teams progress on their own challenges. The star's arms reflect the team capabilities.
But a Space Agency isn't founded on individual performance, it's the teamwork that drives a stellar performance.
The Star Chart is used to create the team's Mission Patch that is a badge of honour and achievement.
Capability Star Plot
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