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Fly the subsystems we fly!

At SSTL we are proud of our mission heritage, with the 39th successful small satellite launch chalked-up in 2012. However, none of these would have even been possible without our reliable satellite subsystems.

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03 December 20120 Comments0 Comments

Dan Lobb wins RAeS Society Bronze Medal

Dan Lobb, Chief Optical Designer for SSTL’s Optical Payload Group, has been awarded the Royal Aeronautical Society’s (RAeS) ‘Society Bronze Medal’.

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27 November 20120 Comments0 Comments

NigeriaSat-2 wins Sir Arthur Clarke Award

NigeriaSat-2, Nigeria’s highly advanced Earth observation satellite built by SSTL, has won the 2012 Sir Arthur Clarke award for "Best Space Activity - Industry / project".

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07 November 20121 Comments0 Comments

NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X orbiting Earth

Following weeks of rigorous launch preparations, both NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X satellites took off at 7:12 GMT on 17th August and are now in orbit and acquiring their first imagery. We’re looking into how it all went and what’s happening next. Days before launch all seven satellites sha...

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12 October 20110 Comments0 Comments

The road to commissioning NigeriaSat-2 in Abuja

With launch preparations complete, we take a closer look at how the satellite will be commissioned for its future mission. NigeriaSat-2 will be operated by a team of trained NASRDA operations engineers from the recently upgraded ground station in Abuja. As part of their latest training and dev...

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15 August 20110 Comments0 Comments

Rigging NigeriaSat-2 for launch

As the launch of NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X grows ever closer, the final preparations are underway at the launch site in Yasny, Russia. What does it actually mean to get a satellite ready for take-off? We’ve spoken to Project Manager Andrew Carrel about the work of the mission launch team, who...

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03 August 20110 Comments0 Comments

UK and Russia sign space collaboration deal

At the Farnborough International Airshow last week, the UK signed a historic agreement with Russia leading the way to greater collaboration in space between the two nations. SSTL welcomes this great news, which promises to make it easier for the two nations to benefit from their respective stren...

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27 July 20100 Comments0 Comments

Nigeria completes milestone in space

Nigeria's space program has passed another milestone as both the state of the art NigeriaSat-2 and the Nigerian-built NigeriaSat-X (NX) spacecraft passed their Flight Readiness Reviews. The completion of this review signifies that the two spacecraft are now ready for launch. At the same time...

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07 October 20090 Comments0 Comments

No Wahala! Nigerian space advances

Nigeria’s space programme has made further progress this month, as the NigeriaSat-2 and NX Earth observation satellites passed environmental tests. Nigerian engineers work on NX (click to enlarge)Environmental tests comprise a series of rigorous checks that are conducted to simulate the enviro...

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04 September 20090 Comments0 Comments

Nigerian satellites tested at RAL

Nigeria's NigeriaSat-2 and NX earth observation satellites are undergoing tests at the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC’s) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. The two satellites in the SSTD at RALNigeriaSat-2 and NX are being built for Nigeria's National Space Research and Develop...

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11 August 20090 Comments0 Comments

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