Current Projects

• Current Projects
• Mission Heritage

SSTL has the facilities, expertise and teams to work on multiple missions. The following missions are under manufacture:

NigeriaSat-2
Customer: National Space Research & Development Agency (Government of Federal Republic of Nigeria)
Mission objective: Earth observation for agricultural and environmental monitoring and population mapping
Satellite platform: SSTL-300

NX
Customer: National Space Research & Development Agency (Government of Federal Republic of Nigeria)
Mission objective: Training satellite to be launched into the Disaster Monitoring Constellation
Satellite platform: SSTL-100

UK-DMC-2
Customer: SSTL Group
Mission objective: Increase capacity of Disaster Monitoring Constellation
Satellite platform: SSTL-100

Deimos-1
Customer: Deimos Imaging SL (Spain)
Mission objective: Earth observation to be launched into the Disaster Monitoring Constellation
Satellite platform: SSTL-100

VNIIEM
Customer: NPP VNIIEM (Russia)
Mission objective: Earth observation for agricultural and environmental monitoring
3 satellite platforms

GIOVE-A2
Customer: European Space Agency
Mission objective: Direct re-build of GIOVE-A (already in orbit) to ensure continuity of the Galileo navigation signal
Satellite platform: SSTL-900

RapidEye
Customer: MDA under contract with RapidEye AG (Canadian Commercial Corporation, a Canadian Federal Government Crown Corporation)
Mission objective: Earth observation for precision farming and agriculture insurance
Satellite platform: SSTL-150 x 5

GMP (Geostationary Minisatellite Platform)
Customer: European Space Agency & British National Space Centre
Mission objective: Geostationary communications satellite platform baselined for a variety of missions including C, Ku, X-band
Satellite platform: SSTL-900

Magnolia
Customer: Mississippi State University & NASA Stennis Space Centre (US Government)
Mission objective: Lunar technology experiments
Satellite platform: Lunar Orbiter Technology Demonstration satellite (customised platform)