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Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL)

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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.

commercialFounded 1985
Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom
www.sstl.co.uk
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In 2010 SSTL was awarded a contract to assemble, integrate, and test the first navigation payloads for the full operational capability Galileo spacecraft.

RelationshipsPlanValue 4.0Nov 25, 2021GIOVE-A, Galileo Pathfinder satellite, de-commissioned after 16 years of in-orbit service

ESA awarded study contracts in the Moonlight Initiative to two consortia led by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. and Telespazio.

RelationshipsValue 4.0Nov 19, 2021Plus Ultra aims to provide communications infrastructure for incoming wave of moon missions

ClearSpace is developing target sensors, navigation, and capture robotics and will work with partners including Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd., Deimos Space UK, and Satellite Applications Catapult.

CapabilityRelationshipsValue 3.9Oct 27, 2021UK Space Agency Initiatives For Space Debris Mitigation

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. plans to launch Lunar Pathfinder in 2024 as a demonstration of a future commercial lunar communications network.

PlanGeneralCapabilityValue 4.4Sep 16, 2021ESA to be anchor customer on commercial lunar satellite

Officials from Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. and the European Space Agency signed the Lunar Pathfinder agreement on 2021-09-15.

RelationshipsValue 4.5Sep 16, 2021ESA to be anchor customer on commercial lunar satellite

SSTL hopes to launch VMMO in late 2023 or early 2024.

PlanValue 3.0Aug 11, 2021Lunar cubesats head to the launch pad

Eutelsat Quantum is based on a platform developed by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd.

GeneralCapabilityValue 3.5Jul 30, 2021Ariane 5 launches two satellites on first mission in nearly a year

The European Space Agency issued study contracts on 2021-05-20 to two consortia led by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. and Telespazio to study a Moonlight satellite communications and navigation initiative.

RelationshipsPlanValue 4.3Jul 5, 2021Lunar Exploration as a Service: From landers to spacesuits, NASA is renting rather than owning

SSTL is developing a spacecraft called Lunar Pathfinder scheduled for launch in 2024 to provide commercial communications relay services from an elliptical orbit with UHF and S-band links to lunar surface spacecraft and X-band to Earth.

PlanCapabilityValue 4.6Jul 5, 2021Lunar Exploration as a Service: From landers to spacesuits, NASA is renting rather than owning

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. is developing Lunar Pathfinder, a single lunar communications satellite scheduled for launch in 2024 for an eight-year mission.

PlanCapabilityValue 4.5May 21, 2021ESA awards study contracts for lunar communications and navigation systems

ESA awarded the 2021-05-20 contracts to consortia led by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. and Telespazio to begin studies for the agency’s Moonlight initiative.

RelationshipsPlanValue 4.7May 21, 2021ESA awards study contracts for lunar communications and navigation systems

LatConnect 60 will generate high resolution panchromatic and multispectral optical data from the SSTL S1-4 satellite.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.0May 13, 2021First UK-Australia ‘Space Bridge’ industry partnership announced by Perth-based LatConnect 60

SSTL’s S1-4 Earth observation satellite provides sub-metric optical data.

CapabilityGeneralValue 3.6May 13, 2021First UK-Australia ‘Space Bridge’ industry partnership announced by Perth-based LatConnect 60

Perth-based LatConnect 60 will provide high resolution optical data from the SSTL S1-4 Earth observation satellite.

CapabilityValue 4.6May 13, 2021First UK-Australia ‘Space Bridge’ industry partnership announced by Perth-based LatConnect 60

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) signed an agreement with Space-Eyes (Channel Logistics USA, LLC Delaware, doing business as SpaceEyes LLC) to provide a share of the tasking and data acquisition capabilities from the NovaSAR-1 satellite.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.5Apr 28, 2021SSTL signs up Space-Eyes for NovaSAR data

SSTL will retain ownership of NovaSAR-1 and perform in-orbit satellite operations from its UK headquarters.

RelationshipsCapabilityGovernanceValue 4.0Apr 28, 2021SSTL signs up Space-Eyes for NovaSAR data

SSTL will lease imaging payload capacity on NovaSAR-1 to Space-Eyes for the lifetime of the satellite, which is designed to be in excess of 7 years.

RelationshipsPlanCapabilityValue 4.2Apr 28, 2021SSTL signs up Space-Eyes for NovaSAR data

General Atomics acquired the U.S. subsidiary of Surrey Satellite Technology Limited in Englewood, Colorado in 2017.

RelationshipsValue 4.5Feb 1, 2021General Atomics acquires Tiger Innovations

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. of the UK built the payloads for the OHB-built Galileo satellites.

RelationshipsValue 4.5Jan 26, 2021Contracts for EUR €1.47 Billion Go to Aerospace Giants for Galileo’s Second Gen Satellites

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. delivered the final navigation payloads for the current generation of Galileo satellites in November.

RelationshipsCapabilityPlanValue 4.0Jan 21, 2021Airbus, Thales win second-generation Galileo satellite contracts
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