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Baroness Wilcox witnesses innovation at SSTL

Yesterday Baroness Wilcox visited SSTL to see with her own eyes how SSTL is contributing to the future of Britain’s high-tech economy. The visit was part of a tour of innovative businesses in Surrey organised by the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills. During her visit the minister ...

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16 March 20120 Comments0 Comments

Catching up with Spaceflight screamers

Space App winners, Cambridge University Spaceflight have been busily developing their Scream in Space app to fly on STRaND-1, the smartphone-powered nanosatellite being built by a combined SSTL and Surrey Space Centre team. The team is made up of three members: Edward Cunningham, Jon Sowman and A...

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08 March 20120 Comments0 Comments

Small satellites unravel the mysteries of Sprites

For many years, reports from pilots of unexplained lights above the clouds were treated sceptically. But since they were first photographed in 1989, scientists have actively tried to unravel the mysterious electrical events that occur above thunderstorms. Some of these "transient luminous even...

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22 February 20120 Comments0 Comments

Martin Unwin wins Tycho Brahe navigation award

Dr. Martin Unwin from SSTL’s GNSS Receivers team has been awarded the 2011 Tycho Brahe prize for contributions towards space navigation, guidance and control. The prize was awarded at the International Technical Meeting of the Institute of Navigation in Newport Beach, California earlier this year...

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16 February 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

How solar storms affect you

We are currently experiencing the effects of a solar storm. Since Monday morning, high-energy particles have been hurtling towards Earth from the Sun. This is the result of a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME); a sudden burst of electromagnetic energy and particles released into space from the Sun’s atm...

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25 January 20120 Comments0 Comments

Evan Davis reveals a soft spot for SSTL

Broadcast journalist Evan Davis is a busy man of many hats. When he’s not on Radio 4’s Today Programme he can be spotted presenting Dragon’s Den or Made In Britain "“ both of which share his passion for British entrepreneurism and innovation. It therefore comes as no surprise that the Open Univer...

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05 December 20110 Comments0 Comments

UK-DMC-1 to take well-earned retirement

UK- DMC- 1, one of the first generation Disaster Monitoring Constellation satellites, is to be retired from service after over 8 years in orbit. UK-DMC-1, was launched on 27th September 2003 with fellow Constellation satellites NigeriaSat-1 and BILSAT-1 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on board a Kos...

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25 November 20110 Comments0 Comments

Students to propel Martian exploration

A group of students from Royal Grammar School, Guildford is exploring the possibilities of a scientific phenomenon to evaluate its potential for propelling a Tumbleweed Rover through the hills and valleys of Martian terrain. The project is SSTL’s contribution to this year’s Engineering Educati...

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16 November 20110 Comments0 Comments

UK-DMC-2 snaps flooding worldwide

DMCii has acquired images of flooding in both El Salvador and Ghana - just two of the many floods that have taken place recently worldwide. El Salvador in South America was hit by a tropical depression at the end of October. Torrential rains resulted in rockslides, landslides and widespread de...

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11 November 20110 Comments0 Comments

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