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SSTL’s low-cost radar satellite NovaSAR wins IET Innovation Award

November 22nd, 2013 Posted in Uncategorised
21 November 2013 – Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) is delighted to announce that its unique space-based S-band radar system, NovaSAR, has won an Innovation award for Navigation and Surveillance Communications from The Institution of Eng...
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Astrium-built Swarm in preparation for launch

November 14th, 2013 Posted in Uncategorised
14 November 2013 – Pre-launch preparations for the Swarm satellite cluster – developed and built by Astrium, the world’s second largest space company– are in full swing at Russia’s Plesetsk Cosmodrome, roughly 800 km northeast of Moscow. The...
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Astrium’s SPOT 6 satellite qualifies for European Copernicus programme

November 13th, 2013 Posted in Uncategorised
13 November 2013 – Astrium, the world’s second-ranking space company, has announced that Astrium Services’s SPOT 6 high-resolution satellite has been qualified by the European Space Agency (ESA) to take part in the Copernicus Earth observation pro...
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QinetiQ celebrates Ion Thruster success on GOCE

November 11th, 2013 Posted in Uncategorised
11 November 2013 – In the early hours of this morning, ESA’s Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere on a descending orbit pass that extended across Siberia, the western Pacific ...