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Through our alliance with the University of Surrey, we have had the privilege of hosting several ground-breaking science payloads developed within the Surrey Space Centre.
Space radiation interests space physicists and is of concern to satellite engineers. By designing small, sophisticated radiation monitors and placing them on a number of microsatellite missions, Surrey scientists have built a global reputation for monitoring the orbital radiation environment and its effects on the commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) electronic devices used in SSTL satellites.
This long term campaign of measuring cosmic particles and trapped radiation in a variety of orbits has also produced novel scientific results and increasedthe company'sunderstanding of the dynamics of the radiation belts.
Following the acquisition of SIRA Electro-Optics in 2006, SSTL also offer high precision optical instruments and sub-systems from our Class 10 facilities at Sevenoaks, Kent.