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SSTL and Leonardo collaborate to develop Low Cost Infra-red Detectors for Earth Observation LEO Constellations

September 24th, 2019 Posted in News

Leonardo and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd have been awarded funding from the UK’s Centre for Earth Observation Instrumentation (CEOI) to develop a new detector assembly for a low cost, world-leading Mid-Wave Infra-Red (MWIR) imager. The MWIR im...

SSTL releases spectacular Raspberry Pi camera image and video of the Earth

September 5th, 2019 Posted in News

The image acquired by the DoT-1 satellite is believed to be the first acquired in Low Earth Orbit by a commercial off-the-shelf Raspberry Pi camera 5 September 2019 – Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has today released an image and video of...

SSTL expertise enables new space mission for FORMOSAT-7 weather constellation

June 25th, 2019 Posted in News

25 June 2019 – The successful launch on 24 June 2019 EST of 6 satellites for the FORMOSAT-7 joint US-Taiwanese weather forecasting constellation marks the start of another SSTL-enabled space mission, a cause for celebration at SSTL’s UK HQ. The ...

TechDemoSat-1 on-board camera captures drag sail deployment

May 31st, 2019 Posted in News

31 May 2019 – Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has released an image showing the successful deployment of the de-orbit drag sail on-board TechDemoSat-1. The deployment of the Icarus-1 drag sail, which was supplied by Cranfield University, ma...

SSTL announces new Earth Observation data contract with Airbus

April 30th, 2019 Posted in Uncategorised

30 April 2019 – Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has signed a contract with Airbus to provide high resolution optical data from the SSTL S1-4, an Earth observation satellite which was launched in September 2018.

SSTL and OSS Collaborate on Disruptive Smallsat SAR Payload

April 2nd, 2019 Posted in Uncategorised

2 April 2019 – Two of the UK’s leading Space sector companies, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) and Oxford Space Systems (OSS) have been awarded National Space Technology Programme funding to develop an innovative and stowage-efficient ...

SSTL completes small geostationary platform build for EUTELSAT QUANTUM

January 9th, 2019 Posted in Uncategorised

9 January 2019 – Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has completed the build of the platform for EUTELSAT QUANTUM, the world’s first geostationary telecommunications satellite that will be fully reconfigurable in orbit.

SSTL confirms successful launch of VESTA

December 4th, 2018 Posted in Uncategorised

4 December 2018 – Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has confirmed the successful launch of VESTA, a 3U nanosatellite technology demonstration mission that will test a new two-way VHF Data Exchange System (VDES) payload developed by Honey...

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