The School of Convergence Science is a mission-led initiative at Imperial. We are therefore setting the research agenda, and designing projects and programmes that realise our vision of protecting, connecting and knowing our worlds.

Our missions are at the heart of each theme, and exemplify the change we wish to affect.

Read more about the Space, Security and Telecoms missions below.

Missions menu

LACE

A smart, secure, sustainable, responsive and recoverable satellite membrane

By 2030, we aim to fly the LACE Pathfinder: a pair of reconfigurable, self-repairing, self-disposing demonstration satellites.

Space 2099

A space-analogue living-lab preparing for space colonisation

We will interrogate whether we can venture into the solar system for the security of humankind, in a sensible, realistic and smart way. By 2030 we will demonstrate the necessary technologies in an Earth-based space-analogue living lab.

Thunderbird

Autonomous disaster response

We will question how we can deploy ultra-fast, autonomous and self-deploying disaster responses, delivering out-of-the-box infrastructure and relief anywhere on Earth in less than 12 hours by 2030.