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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

exactView-1 makes huge leap in maritime monitoring from space

exactView-1 (EV-1), the most advanced Automatic Identification System (AIS) satellite built to date, and the fifth satellite deployed in the exactEarth advanced vessel monitoring constellation, has entered commercial service this week.

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30 November 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

SSTL sponsors Surrey Space Centre Chair of Engineering

SSTL and the Royal Academy of Engineering have jointly sponsored a new academic post at The Surrey Space Centre, part of the University of Surrey.

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16 November 20121 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

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-1 reaches end of long life

 Nigeria's first satellite, NigeriaSat-1, has reached the end of life after an impressive nine years in orbit, outliving its design life by four years.

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29 October 20120 Comments0 Comments

Climate change study searches for the TRUTHS

 SSTL is about to embark on a pioneering study into acquiring more accurate climate data from satellites, that will help us better understand the impact of climate change.

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25 October 20120 Comments0 Comments

UoSAT-2 helped bridge the Pole

After 25 years of providing small satellites, it’s hard to believe that SSTL was established as an offshoot of the University of Surrey (a close tie we still benefit from today) where, in a small lab, the small satellite revolution all began. One of the inaugural satellites to come out of t...

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23 October 20120 Comments0 Comments

Disaster response imagery available to all

After 13 years of providing imagery for disaster response to its members, the International Charter ‘Space and Major Disasters’ is now making its imagery free for all countries to access during natural emergencies - whether they are members or not. The move, announced last month by t...

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11 October 20120 Comments0 Comments

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