From the design of the first breathing regulator for Project Mercury, to a full suite of hardware and cutting-edge pneumatic subsystems for the ISS, Cobham has engineered some of the most complex, challenging space components in existence today. Cobham builds ultimate reliability into life support, propulsion systems, microelectronics, rotary joints, actuators, microwave electronics, and satellite communications technology for space.
The most important thing we build is trust.
Cobham is a leading global technology and services innovator, respected for providing solutions to the most challenging problems, from deep space to the depths of the ocean.
We employ more than 12,000 people on five continents, and have customers and partners in over 100 countries, with market leading positions in: wireless, audio, video and data communications, including satellite communications; defence electronics; air-to-air refuelling; aviation services; life support and mission equipment.
Key Commercial Space Facts
- Every US astronaut since John Glenn has breathed through a Cobham regulator
- Developed the world’s first demisable composite propellant tank, extending a satellite’s useful life
- Vital equipment supplied for NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Mission
- Cobham supplies the ‘brains’, also known as the command and data handling, to some of the most powerful flight-proven commercial spacecraft available like the Lockheed Martin A2100 satellite