The Surrey Space Centre (SSC) houses multidisciplinary world class academic engineering research teams that specialise in RF, dynamic control, propulsion, remote sensing, robotics and planetary environments for space systems. SSC underpins developments in Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) which is world renowned for designing, building and launching low cost satellites.

Building on strong links with Formula 1 teams, the Vehicle Engineering group’s research areas are vehicle simulation and trackside analysis, design and manufacturing support and systems engineering support.

In Fluids research  the Thermo-Fluid Systems University Technology Centre, supported by Rolls-Royce Plc, focuses on turbomachinery internal fluid and thermal systems and the Environmental Flow Research Centre (EnFlo) works on laboratory scale simulation of atmospheric flow and pollutant dispersion.

Outside the main contributors to this theme, the Geometry, Mechanics and Fluids group in Mathematics conducts research on astrodynamics with SSC and on atmospheric fluid flows with EnFlo.