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What's smaller than small? - Nanosats

During the past 25 years building satellites, SSTL has been instrumental in changing the economics of space for customers ranging from established space players such as ESA and NASA through to establishing new space programs for nations taking their first steps in space. With the incredible adva...

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04 February 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

Matt Perkins accepts Coachmakers award

Dr Matt Perkins, CEO of SSTL, accepted a prestigious industry award for outstanding contributions to technological advancement in aerospace, also involving elegance and commercial significance on Monday 24th January. SSTL was given this award by the Worshipful Company of Coachmakers, that promote...

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27 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

Satellite images aid Colombian flood relief

Heavy rains have caused major rivers in the Sucre/San Marcos region in Colombia to burst their banks, leaving tens of thousands of people homeless. DMCii was activated via the International Charter: Space and Major Disasters to acquire images of the area giving rescue workers and officials a bett...

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10 December 20100 Comments0 Comments

Shaun Kenyon talks tiny tech and satellite-speak

Space Blog caught up with Shaun Kenyon from SSTL’s Mission Concepts following a busy IAC 2010 at the start of the month for the eagerly awaited follow-up to our Mission Concepts interview with Kathryn Graham. Shaun is perhaps one of the luckiest men in the building. One of his tasks is to keep...

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03 November 20100 Comments0 Comments

CHRIS captures images of Hungarian toxic sludge

The Compact High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (CHRIS) recently captured telling images of red toxic sludge following the Ajka alumina plant accident in Devecser, Hungary that has recently been widely reported in the media. Unlike many satellite images of flooding disasters, there is no need to...

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22 October 20100 Comments0 Comments

Satellites help flood-stricken Pakistan

DMCii is playing an important role in the continuing disaster relief operations in flood-affected areas of Pakistan. DMCii satellite images are providing detailed snapshots of the flooded areas that show the current extent of the flooding at present compared to the initial impact that was widely ...

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07 October 20100 Comments0 Comments

Remembering Gordon Hopkinson 1952-2010

Gordon Hopkinson, from SSTL's Optical Payloads Group was a physicist who made a notable contribution to the development of today’s space imaging systems Gordon Hopkinson was one of the world’s experts in the physics of optical detectors used in a wide range of applications from digital cameras...

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24 September 20100 Comments0 Comments

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