The U.K. Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) is an executive agency of the Ministry of Defence, providing advanced space science, technology, and advice to the UK government. Dstl focuses on satellite communications, space-based intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and monitoring objects in orbit to protect UK interests. They partner with organizations like UK Space Command, Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S), the UK Space Agency, and international allies such as the US Naval Research Laboratory to develop and test space technologies, including satellite systems and ground stations, ensuring the UK exploits space for defense and security. Associated keywords include: space situational awareness, space domain awareness, military satellite communications, and space-based ISR.
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The primary payload DS-SAR is a 360-kilogram remote-sensing satellite developed in partnership with Singapore’s Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) and ST Engineering.
TeLEOS-2 was developed in partnership with Singapore’s Defence Science and Technology Agency on behalf of the Government of Singapore.
TeLEOS-2 was developed in partnership between ST Engineering and Singapore’s Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) on behalf of the Government of Singapore.
TeLEOS-2 is a synthetic aperture radar satellite developed in partnership between the Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) representing the Government of Singapore and ST Engineering.
The Start Me Up manifest included Prometheus-2, two cubesats owned by the U.K. Ministry of Defence’s Defense Science & Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and co-funded with Airbus Defence and Space.
Prometheus-2 is co-funded by Airbus Defence and Space and is being jointly designed with In-Space Missions to support MOD science and technology activities and development of ground systems focused at Dstl’s site near Portsmouth.
Prometheus-2 consists of two cubesats owned by the U.K. Ministry of Defence’s Defense Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and is co-funded with Airbus Defence and Space and jointly designed with In-Space Missions.
Prometheus-2 will support MOD science and technology activities on-orbit and the development of ground systems focused at Dstl’s site near Portsmouth.
DASA collaborated with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory Space Program to deploy a low-cost, rapid concept-to-technology demonstrator for global monitoring and geolocating signals with Spire.
In-Space Missions won a contract valued at £9,500,000from the Ministry of Defence and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory on 2021-08-09 to build an experimental smallsat called Titania.
The Ministry of Defence and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory awarded In-Space Missions a contract valued at £9,500,000for the Titania Operational Concept Demonstrator on 2021-08-09.
Starburst Aerospace will work with the U.K. Defence and Security Accelerator to provide training and mentoring for startups admitted to the Allied Defence Accelerator.
Oxford Space Systems’ first antenna is scheduled to launch in 2020 on the U.K. Defence Science and Technology Laboratory’s Wideband Ionospheric Sounder CubeSat Experiment that Thales Alenia Space is building.