Earth Observation Payloads

SSTL has pioneered the use of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) optics for space imaging, producing stunning results at exceptionally low cost. SSTL is able to offer state-of-the art digital imagers for a range of remote sensing applications.

CHRIS Imager

A highly versatile hyperspectral system with more than 7-years inflight heritage, offering in-orbit programmable selection of spectral bands location, bandwidth and ground sampling distance. In orbit since 2001 and provides the highest spatial resolution of any hyperspectral system, attracting a substantial international user community.

CHRIS datasheet
 

VHRI 250 Imager

Compact, very high resolution, low power pushbroom imager. Provides high resolution imagery in 5 wavebands, using five linear detector arrays separated in the along-track direction in the common focal plane of a telescope.

VHRI 250 datasheet

Wide Swath DMC Multi Spectral Imager

Multispectral pushbroom imager with effective sensor length of 27,500 pixels for each of its three separate waveband channels. At an orbital height of 686km this gives a 600km swath width for each image.

DMC MSI datasheet