The SSTL story is a showcase of British ingenuity, ambition and engineering expertise

In the mid-1970s a group of highly skilled aerospace researchers were working in the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Surrey. At the time, space exploration was something only countries with enormous aerospace budgets, such as the US and the (then) Soviet Union, could dream about.

Click here to find out how that early endeavour became SSTL, a company at the forefront of small satellite design and build.