About

An engineering practice built around one discharge problem.

STADIUM Aerospace works on plasma devices and the electronics that drive them. The four things we do — thrusters, power stages, test benches, modelling and measurement — are not four business lines. They are the four places the same problem shows up, and treating them separately is what makes plasma projects run long.

What we believe about this work

Plasma engineering rewards people who are honest about what they have measured. Devices in this field are easy to describe optimistically and hard to characterise properly, and the gap between the two is where programmes fail.

So we work from the bench outward. A claim we make about a device corresponds to something instrumented, in conditions we can describe, with an uncertainty we are willing to write down.

How we are organised

Projects are run by the people doing the engineering, with direct contact between your technical staff and ours. There is no account layer in between, which suits the kind of work where the important question is usually raised mid-experiment.

Where the expertise sits

Three disciplines meet here that are usually kept apart: plasma physics, propulsion hardware, and power electronics. Most of the difficulty in this field comes from that separation — a thruster designed without its converter, or a converter designed for a load nobody has characterised.

Holding the three together is the point of the practice, and it is why the four capabilities listed on this site are described as one problem rather than four services.

Join us

Working here

We do not keep a standing list of vacancies. When we recruit, it is because a specific piece of work needs someone, and the posting says exactly what that work is.

If you work on discharges, high-voltage design, vacuum instrumentation or plasma modelling and want to be considered when something opens, write to us with what you have actually built or measured. That is more useful to us than a covering letter.

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