Vorticity Ltd

Vorticity Ltd is an aerospace engineering company and center of excellence specializing in advanced systems for space, launch, and flight applications. With 25 years of engineering experience, the company supports customers developing technologies for planetary entry, descent, and landing, as well as next-generation launch and flight systems. Its services span the full engineering process, including systems engineering, performance modelling, flight dynamics, and the sizing and analysis of complex systems.

Vorticity designs, simulates, tests, and qualifies parachutes for space missions, alongside inflatable systems for deceleration and impact attenuation. It also provides computational fluid dynamics and fluid-structure interaction analysis for challenging applications, from parachute deployment and hypersonic vehicle plumes to inflatable re-entry systems. Ground and flight testing help validate entry, descent, landing, and inflatable technologies. The company has also delivered high-altitude drop testing for the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin mission. Vorticity works with aerospace integrators, space agencies, research organisations, and universities, including ESA, NASA centres, and leading European aerospace companies. Based in Oxfordshire, UK, it serves terrestrial and space engineering projects.