Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) is a British small satellite manufacturer and mission provider. SSTL designs, builds, and operates satellites for Earth observation, science, communication, and in-orbit services. A spin-off from the University of Surrey and now part of Airbus, SSTL works with customers like ESA and NASA, offering complete turnkey ground segment solutions and launch services. SSTL is known for driving innovation and affordability in the space sector.
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General Atomics acquired smallsat manufacturer Surrey Space Technology in 2017 to compete for Department of Defense contracts.
Airbus wholly owns U.K.-based small satellite specialist SSTL, which was established in 1985.
Kongsberg Satellite Services is designing a ground network for lunar data relay satellites as part of a consortium led by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. under the European Space Agency Moonlight Initiative.
SSTL’s DarkCarb design is a 130-kilogram satellite equipped with a mid-wave infrared (MWIR) instrument capable of imagery with a resolution of 3.5 m.
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. won a contract from British Earth observation startup Satellite Vu to build the first satellite in a constellation designed to provide thermal infrared imaging for climate change applications.
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. is building the first of Satellite Vu’s seven planned satellites.
Satellite Vu signed a contract with Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. to build the company’s first satellite.
Satellite Vu elected to buy a satellite from an established manufacturer like SSTL rather than build one itself.
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) has been selected to lead a UK Space Agency study to define the requirements for a mission to de-orbit two non-operational space debris targets.
The LEOPARD study will be led by SSTL and delivered by a consortium of UK space companies and academic institutions.
SSTL provided the client 'target' satellite for Astroscale’s 2021 ELSA-d mission.
SSTL’s CERISE satellite was the first verified case of a collision between two manufactured objects in space when it was struck by a cataloged Ariane rocket debris object in 1996.
ClearSpace is part of the SSTL-led consortium called LEOPARD (Low Earth Orbit Pursuit for Active Debris Removal).
A consortium led by British small satellite maker SSTL secured UK Space Agency funding to study a mission to remove two spacecraft from low Earth orbit by 2025.
The Galileo satellites are built by prime contractor OHB System, with payloads supplied by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), an Airbus Defence and Space subsidiary.
SSTL took over operations of GIOVE-A from ESA in 2012.
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) de-commissioned GIOVE-A on 24 November 2021 after 16 years of operations in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO).
Over a period of 10 years SSTL supplied a total of 34 navigation payloads for the Galileo constellation.
SSTL designed, built, and tested GIOVE-A in 30 months for the European Space Agency (ESA).
The experimental SSTL GPS receiver SGR-GEO onboard GIOVE-A achieved a GPS position fix at 23,300 km altitude in 2012, the first position fix above the GPS constellation on a civilian satellite.