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FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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OPEN COSMOS LTD
COMPANY INFORMATION
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OPEN COSMOS LTD
CONTENTS
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OPEN COSMOS LTD
GROUP STRATEGIC REPORT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
The principal activity of the Company continues to be the development, manufacture, launch and operations of satellites and the provision of satellite data and insights from those to help solve the world's biggest challenges, serving both commercial and institutional markets globally.
During the year, the Company achieved significant progress in expanding its product portfolio and securing new international contracts, despite continued macroeconomic uncertainty and supply chain challenges. Revenue increased by 353.2% compared to the prior year, driven primarily by sales of new satellite products to governments internationally. The Company maintained a strong order book and delivered several key milestones, including the launch of new satellites and began the delivery of satellite imagery and insights.
The Company operates in a highly competitive environment. Key risks include geopolitical factors affecting public spend, export controls and change in regulations, supply chain disruptions, technological obsolescence, and dependence on key customers. The Board actively monitors risk through its established risk management framework and continues to invest in innovation, service improvement and customer satisfaction, and supply chain resilience.
∙Revenue: £29.7m
∙Operating Profit Margin: 46.8%
∙R&D Investment as % of Revenue: 10.8%
The Company remains focused on sustainable growth through continued investment in the Open Constellation, proprietary technologies, strategic partnerships in the upstream and downstream sectors, and international expansion. Emphasis will be placed on growing the size and performance of our satellites and service provided, deploying manufacturing facilities internationally and further exploiting the use of geospatial data with artificial intelligence to address the market demands, in particular those related to the use of Earth Observation data to understand and mitigate the effects of climate change, the sustainable use of natural resources and the digitalisation of developing societies.. The Board is confident in the Company’s long-term strategy and resilience.
The Directors have had regard to the matters set out in section 172 of the Companies Act 2006 when discharging their duties. Key stakeholders, including employees, customers, suppliers, and shareholders, were regularly engaged through formal and informal channels. The Board prioritised decisions that promote the long-term success of the Company, including workforce development, environmental sustainability, and operational excellence.
This report was approved by the board and signed on its behalf.
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OPEN COSMOS LTD
DIRECTORS' REPORT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
The directors present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2024.
The profit for the year, after taxation, amounted to £11,641,258 (2023 - £6,738).
The directors do not recommend payment of a dividend.
The directors who served during the year were:
As permitted by s414c(11) of the Companies Act 2006, the directors have elected to disclose information, required to be in the directors' report by Schedule 7 of the 'Large and Medium sized companies and groups (accounts and reports) regulations 2008', in the group strategic report.
This report was approved by the board and signed on its behalf.
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OPEN COSMOS LTD
DIRECTORS' RESPONSIBILITIES STATEMENT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
The directors are responsible for preparing the group strategic report, the directors' report and the consolidated financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.
Company law requires the directors to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the directors have elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice), including Financial Reporting Standard 102 ‘The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland'. Under company law the directors must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Company and the Group and of the profit or loss of the Group for that period.
In preparing these financial statements, the directors are required to:
∙select suitable accounting policies for the group's financial statements and then apply them consistently;
∙make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
∙prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the group will continue in business.
The directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the company and the group and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and the group and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
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OPEN COSMOS LTD
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF OPEN COSMOS LTD
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
We have audited the financial statements of (the 'parent Company') and its subsidiaries (the 'group') for the year ended 31 December 2024, which comprise the consolidated profit and loss account, the Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income, the Consolidated Balance Sheet, the Company Balance Sheet, the Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows, the Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity, the Company Statement of Changes in Equity and the related notes, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 ‘The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the Group in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the United Kingdom, including the Financial Reporting Council's Ethical Standard and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.
In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.
Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the group's or the parent company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.
Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the directors with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.
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OPEN COSMOS LTD
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF OPEN COSMOS LTD (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
The other information comprises the information included in the Annual Report other than the financial statements and our auditor's report thereon. The directors are responsible for the other information contained within the Annual Report. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon. Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the course of the audit, or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.
We have nothing to report in this regard.
In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:
∙the information given in the group strategic report and the directors' report for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and
∙the group strategic report and the directors' report have been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.
In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the group and the parent company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the group strategic report or the directors' report.
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OPEN COSMOS LTD
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF OPEN COSMOS LTD (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor's report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these Group financial statements.
Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:
∙the engagement partner ensured that the engagement team collectively had the appropriate competence, capabilities and skills to identify or recognise non-compliance with applicable laws and regulations;
∙we identified the laws and regulations applicable to the company through discussions with directors and other management, and from our commercial knowledge and experience of the company's sector;
∙we focused on specific laws and regulations which we considered may have a direct material effect on the financial statements or the operations of the company, including the Companies Act 2006 and taxation legislation;
∙we assessed the extent of compliance with the laws and regulations identified above through making enquiries of management and inspecting legal correspondence; and
∙identified laws and regulations were communicated within the audit team regularly and the team remained alert to instances of non-compliance throughout the audit.
We assessed the susceptibility of the company’s financial statements to material misstatement, including
obtaining an understanding of how fraud might occur, by:
∙making enquiries of management as to where they considered there was susceptibility to fraud, their knowledge of actual, suspected and alleged fraud; and
∙considering the internal controls in place to mitigate risks of fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations.
To address the risk of fraud through management bias and override of controls, we:
∙performed analytical procedures to identify any unusual or unexpected relationships;
∙tested a sample of journal entries to identify unusual transactions;
∙assessed whether judgements and assumptions made in determining the accounting estimates set out in note 3 were indicative of potential bias; and
∙investigated the rationale behind significant or unusual transactions.
In response to the risk of irregularities and non-compliance with laws and regulations, we designed procedures which included, but were not limited to:
∙agreeing financial statement disclosures to underlying supporting documentation;
∙reading the minutes of meetings of those charged with governance;
∙enquiring of management as to actual and potential litigation and claims; and
∙reviewing correspondence with HM Revenue and Customs.
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OPEN COSMOS LTD
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF OPEN COSMOS LTD (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
There are inherent limitations in our audit procedures described above. The more removed that laws and regulations are from financial transactions, the less likely it is that we would become aware of non-compliance. Auditing standards also limit the audit procedures required to identify non-compliance with laws and regulations to enquiry of the directors and other management and the inspection of regulatory and legal correspondence, if any.
Material misstatements that arise due to fraud can be harder to detect than those that arise from error as they may involve deliberate concealment or collusion.
A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council's website at: www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor's report.
This report is made solely to the Company's members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the Company's members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor's report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the Company and the Company's members, as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.
for and on behalf of
Chartered Accountants
Statutory Auditor
16 Great Queen Street
Covent Garden
London
Date:
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OPEN COSMOS LTD
CONSOLIDATED PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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OPEN COSMOS LTD
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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OPEN COSMOS LTD
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET
AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2024
The financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the board and were signed on its behalf by by:
The notes on pages 15 to 39 form part of these financial statements.
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OPEN COSMOS LTD
COMPANY BALANCE SHEET
AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2024
The financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the board and were signed on its behalf by:
The notes on pages 15 to 39 form part of these financial statements.
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OPEN COSMOS LTD
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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OPEN COSMOS LTD
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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OPEN COSMOS LTD
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
Details of other loans have been disclosed in note 17.
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OPEN COSMOS LTD
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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OPEN COSMOS LTD
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
18.Deferred taxation (continued)
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OPEN COSMOS LTD
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
Share premium account
Foreign exchange reserve
Other reserves
Profit and loss account
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OPEN COSMOS LTD
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
The group operates a defined contribution pension scheme. The assets of the scheme are held separately from those of the group in an independently administered fund. The pension cost charge represents contributions payable by the group to the fund and amounted to £39,981 (2023: £27,279). Contributions totaling £15,590 (2023: £110) were payable to the fund at the balance sheet date and were included within creditors.
There is no ultimate controlling party.
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OPEN COSMOS LTD
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
During May 2025 the company purchased 6,561 of its own Ordinary shares with a nominal value of £0.001 per share for consideration of £1.1m.
Subsequent to the reporting date, the following changes to the group structure occurred:
∙During March 2025, the group acquired 100% of the shares in SUR Emprendimientos Tecnologicos S.R.L., an entity based in Argentina.
∙During June 2025, the group acquired 100% of the shares in Simply Connected Lda, an entity based in Portugal.
∙During August 2025, the group incorporated a new subsidiary in the United Arab Emirates, Open Cosmos Emarat Limited, of which it owns 100% of the shares.
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