News from 2012

30/11/2012

GIOVE-A satellite demonstrates first High Altitude GPS fix

An experimental GPS receiver, built by Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), has successfully achieved a GPS position fix at 23,300km altitude.

9/10/2012

SSTL assists RapidEye ground station upgrade

SSTL is undertaking a project to assist geospatial information provider RapidEye AG in upgrading and consolidating its ground station facilities.

17/09/2012

Sir Martin Sweeting awarded Caltech’s International von Kármán Wings Award

Sir Martin Sweeting has been presented with the International von Kármán Wings Award for his contributions to aerospace.

13/09/2012

Disaster Monitoring Constellation is awarded AIAA Space Systems accolade

Sir Martin Sweeting yesterday accepted the 2012 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Space Systems award for the Disaster Monitoring Constellation.

26/07/2012

exactView-1 satellite operational in orbit

SSTL today announced the successful separation from the Soyuz launcher and subsequent operation of mission-critical systems onboard the exactView-1 satellite.

22/07/2012

SSTL announces the successful launch of exactView-1

SSTL today announced the successful launch of exactView-1.

11/07/2012

SSTL signs €80m contract with OHB for second batch of Galileo payloads

SSTL has today signed a contract with OHB System AG at the Farnborough International Airshow for the construction of a further eight navigation payloads for the European Galileo programme.

5/07/2012

Galileo pathfinder GIOVE-A retires

SSTL has put the GIOVE-A satellite into retirement.

12/04/2012

SSTL delivers payload for first Galileo FOC satellite

SSTL has delivered the first of fourteen full operational capability (FOC) payloads for Galileo, the European GNSS system, to prime contractor OHB System AG.

2/02/2012

SSTL-OHB to build a further eight Galileo FOC satellites

European Commission today announced in London that the consortium led by OHB System AG and SSTL will build a further eight satellites for the European Union’s Galileo satellite navigation programme.

25/01/2012

ESA Director General opens SSTL’s Kepler Building

ESA Director General and Minister for Universities and Science unveiled a commemorative plaque marking the inauguration of SSTL's new state-of-the-art Kepler technical facility.

12/01/2012

First Galileo satellite GIOVE-A outlives design life to reach sixth anniversary

British satellite manufacturer Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) is today celebrating the sixth year of transmission of signals from its GIOVE-A satellite.

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