BT

BT Group is the UK’s leading telecommunications and network provider and a leading provider of global communications services and solutions, serving customers in 180 countries. BT has over 60 years’ experience of innovating in satellite communications since Telstar 1 in 1962.

Satellite continues to be used extensively to serve BT customers to provide infill, resilience and rapid site set up in hard to reach locations and at Madley, Herefordshire, the company has one of Europe’s largest earth stations. BT goes beyond satellite communications, working on many other aspects of space technology and services such as Earth Observation (EO) Data, Position, Navigation & Timing (PNT) and Quantum Key Distribution (QkD), and it is an active participant in European Space Agency and UK Space Agency projects.