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Space UK: a visionary legacy

Sir Martin Sweeting spoke at the Parliamentary Space Committee this week.  He welcomed government investments and looked to the future of space engineering in Britain.

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13 December 20120 Comments0 Comments

Sir Martin Sweeting comments on UK gov's extra funding for space

 "Additional funding is directly in tune with the interests of the Surrey Space Centre and SSTL..."

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13 November 20120 Comments0 Comments

SSTL wins new Galileo contract

Last week it was announced that SSTL and its German partner OHB System AG have won a contract to build the next 8 satellites for the EU’s Galileo satellite navigation programme. Prime contractor OHB will be constructing the satellites and SSTL will assemble, integrate and test the navigation p...

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08 February 20120 Comments0 Comments

EarthCARE MSI moves ahead

SSTL is supplying the EarthCARE Multi-Spectral Imager (MSI) instrument for ESA’s EarthCARE mission. With spacecraft prime being EADS Astrium GmbH, EarthCARE is a joint European-Japanese mission, addressing the need for a better understanding of the interactions between cloud, radiative and aeroso...

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07 June 20110 Comments0 Comments

Handling heat in nano-sats

The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded SSTL with a Micro Heat Management System Study to identify innovative techniques to manage heat in nano/micro satellites (defined as having a volume smaller than 400×400×400 mm). The objective is to find recommendations on low cost heat management sys...

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03 May 20110 Comments0 Comments

Satellites improving UK emergency response

You may have heard of the severe flooding taking place in the UK within the last few weeks, fortunately only as part of a simulation conducted by the Environment Agency for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Welsh Assembly. Known as "˜Exercise Watermark’, the exercise ...

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01 April 20110 Comments0 Comments

SSTL receives first payload equipment for European Sat-Nav

SSTL has taken delivery of a Search and Rescue Antenna (SARANT) for use to support the development of the fully operational satellites that will power Europe’s new satellite navigation system. An important milestone, this is the first payload equipment to be delivered to SSTL since it was sele...

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07 March 20110 Comments0 Comments

Low cost satcoms under the microscope

In October 2010 SSTL kicked off a reliability study for the European Space Agency (ESA) in partnership with BAE Systems, looking at alternative approaches to designing and analysing system-level reliability for low cost telecommunications missions. ARTES-1 is the preparatory element to the A...

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31 January 20110 Comments0 Comments

Milestone for European GNSS pathfinder GIOVE-A

It’s now five years since Space Blog reported on GIOVE-A transmitting its first signals for the European GNSS system. The first validation satellite GIOVE-A, was launched in December 2005 by a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur in Kazakhstan, and is still working well five years after the satellite paylo...

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12 January 20110 Comments0 Comments

How much carbon dioxide do plants absorb?

SSTL’s Optical Payloads Group has commenced a science project that will study fluorescent emissions from vegetation using a remote sensing instrument designed to fly onboard a small satellite. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is notoriously difficult to measure and so far it has been impossible to calcu...

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21 December 20100 Comments0 Comments

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