Castrol in space

Forward in space

In space, upward is forward.

It’s where we look to accelerate progress.

Collaborating together to write tomorrow’s history.

In space, failure is not an option. Successful missions depend on technologies that can withstand the most extreme conditions. That’s why we work with the brightest minds to put our products to the test – delivering mission-critical performance.

Visionary collaborations

Chosen by NASA. From the Apollo missions and the Mars Rovers to the Space Shuttle programme and the International Space Station, we’ve worked alongside them for over 60 years.

51 years after NASA landed on the moon, SpaceX made history as the first private company to send humans into space.

In recent years space has opened up to many ambitious new parties, including the next generation of visionaries, entrepreneurs, scientists, engineers, and academic institutions. Castrol is proud to be forming collaborations with them.

Space-grade lubricants

The unique formulations of our lubricants enable performance in the most extreme vacuum environments – keeping advanced space technologies moving in conditions where failure is not an option.

The International Space Station with a view of Earth in the back ground

A universe of opportunity

From the cars, bikes and trucks on the roads to the planes in the skies and ships in the seas. From the machines to the robots, to the everyday objects we rely on each day. Castrol is working behind the scenes in more components of modern life than you think.

Come and join us

Space exploration is the epitome of accelerating progress and we want to share these achievements with the world. We’re proud of decades working in space, helping collaborators make the impossible possible. We are building a Castronomer™ community for those who seek the joy, thrill and exhilaration that space exploration brings.

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Explore our space gallery:

Perseverance Mars Rover at NASA's Kennedy Space Center

NASA Perseverance launch at Cape Canavaeral in 2020

NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter lands on Mars

Astronaut Chris Cassidy performs a space walk on the International Space Station

NASA's space shuttle Endeavour soaring Earths orbit

Scientist inspects NASA ingenuity helicopter

NASA Perseverance Rovers wheel at Kenedy Space Centre

NASA Artemis Rocket on launchpad preparing for launch

An artist’s impression of the Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars

NASA's launchpad crawler at the Kennedy Space centre.

Wind ripples and waves across Mars' surface

NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter undergoing tests at Kennedy Space Center

NASA's Perseverance Rover took off from Cape Canaveral Florida

During a test of the vehicle's mass properties. The rover was rotated clockwise and counterclockwise on a spin table to determine the centre of gravity, or the point at which weight is evenly dispersed on all sides.

NASA's Perseverance Rover launches from Cape Canaveral to journey to Mars.

This view of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was generated using data collected by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard the agency’s Perseverance Mars Rover.

Two American astronauts conducted an urgent repair outside the International Space Station Saturday during a spacewalk that lasted five hours and 28 minutes in 2013.

Space Shuttle Endeavor from NASA's programme was the 5th and final shuttle to orbit space. It completed 25 missions between 1992 - 2011 which included the 1st service mission of the Hubble telescope.

Functional testing of NASA’s Mars Helicopter and its cruise stage occurred in the airlock inside Kennedy Space Center’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility on March 10, 2020.

Wheels are installed on NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover inside Kennedy Space Center’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility on March 30, 2020.

NASA’s Artemis I Moon rocket – carried atop the crawler-transporter 2 – as it approaches Launch Pad 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

An artist’s impression of the Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars.

NASA’s crawler-transporter 2 at the agency’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.

NASA’s Artemis I Moon rocket – carried atop the crawler-transporter 2 – as it approaches Launch Pad 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.

This image shows the blue wind-related waves and ripples across Mars' dunes.

NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter undergoing tests at Kennedy Space Centre in 2019

Perseverance took off from Cape Canaveral Florida aboard a United Launch Alliances Atlas V rocket at 7:50am ET to embark on its 314 million-mile journey to Mars.