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Android App contest for smartphone satellite

Are you sitting on an Android App that would work in space? Working in their lunch breaks and spare time, a team of SSTL engineers and researchers from the University of Surrey has built STRaND-1, the first satellite being powered by a smartphone. Mobile phones are getting more and more advanced ...

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12 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

Spacecraft operations

When a satellite passes within range of one of SSTL’s ground stations, log files from its entire orbit are automatically downloaded to Mission Control as well as real time telemetry. This "whole orbit data" includes information on the status of the various systems that make up the satellite. The...

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27 July 20110 Comments0 Comments

Inside SSTL's new Kepler building

For anyone visiting the SSTL headquarters in Guildford UK during the past year, it’s been hard to miss the construction of the new state-of-the-art Kepler Building just opposite. True to SSTL’s approach, the building, that was just blueprints months ago, is now ready for business and ...

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12 July 20110 Comments0 Comments

Inside Mission Control Guildford

This week, Space Blog visited Mission Control Guildford "“ from which SSTL monitors and controls more than a dozen small satellites "“ with James Northam, head of the Ground Systems Group. We enter the room. All is quiet, apart from the whirr of server fans. Large flat screens display the foot...

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06 July 20110 Comments0 Comments

Sir Martin Sweeting is first for new award

SSTL founder, Professor Sir Martin Sweeting, yesterday received a prestigious new honour recognising and celebrating local innovation, creativity and commitment. The Guildford Roll of Honour is the result of collaboration between local partners the University of Surrey and Guildford Borough Counc...

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01 July 20110 Comments0 Comments

David Cameron, Wen Jibao witness DMC3 signing

Earlier this week, UK Prime Minister David Cameron and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao witnessed the signing of a £110m satellite imaging deal between SSTL subsidiary DMCii and Beijing-based company 21AT during the UK-China trade summit at 10 Downing Street. Mme Wu Shuang and Sir Prof. Martin Sweet...

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30 June 20110 Comments0 Comments

Space-savvy MPs visit Kepler technical facility

Yesterday was a busy day at SSTL's HQ in Guildford. As the £110m DMC3 satellite constellation contract was being agreed with Chinese company 21AT, SSTL was also delighted to host a visit by three Members of Parliament with strong interests in space and what space applications can do for the "ma...

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29 June 20110 Comments0 Comments

Reaching out to future space cadets

SSTL’s very own Mission and Systems Team Leader Kathryn Graham not only inspires Space Blog readers, but also motivates young people of all ages to become interested in careers within science and engineering as a STEM ambassador. Kathryn reaches out to young people by, for example, visiting schoo...

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20 June 20110 Comments0 Comments

Earthquake Prediction From Space

For some years now, SSTL has been using its Disaster Monitoring Constellation satellites to assist people around the globe who have become victims of natural disasters. On behalf of the International Charter, imagery has been rapidly collected, analysed, and then delivered to relief organisations...

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17 June 20110 Comments0 Comments

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