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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In 2010 SSTL was awarded a contract to assemble, integrate, and test the first navigation payloads for the full operational capability Galileo spacecraft.
ESA awarded study contracts in the Moonlight Initiative to two consortia led by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. and Telespazio.
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.
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. plans to launch Lunar Pathfinder in 2024 as a demonstration of a future commercial lunar communications network.
Officials from Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. and the European Space Agency signed the Lunar Pathfinder agreement on 2021-09-15.
SSTL hopes to launch VMMO in late 2023 or early 2024.
Eutelsat Quantum is based on a platform developed by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd.
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.
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.
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. is developing Lunar Pathfinder, a single lunar communications satellite scheduled for launch in 2024 for an eight-year mission.
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.
LatConnect 60 will generate high resolution panchromatic and multispectral optical data from the SSTL S1-4 satellite.
SSTL’s S1-4 Earth observation satellite provides sub-metric optical data.
Perth-based LatConnect 60 will provide high resolution optical data from the SSTL S1-4 Earth observation satellite.
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.
SSTL will retain ownership of NovaSAR-1 and perform in-orbit satellite operations from its UK headquarters.
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.
General Atomics acquired the U.S. subsidiary of Surrey Satellite Technology Limited in Englewood, Colorado in 2017.
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. of the UK built the payloads for the OHB-built Galileo satellites.
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. delivered the final navigation payloads for the current generation of Galileo satellites in November.