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The SSTL–ASI partnership aims to expand SSTL’s educational outreach and provide students with access to space technology and exploration.
Telesat’s first operational demonstrator, LEO 1, was built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. and launched in January 2018.
SSTL has prior experience designing and operating small radar missions gained from the NovaSAR-1 spacecraft, which entered operations in 2018 and serves five major customers worldwide.
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. plans to launch Lunar Pathfinder in 2024 as a demonstration of a future commercial lunar communications network.
Virgin Orbit’s role in Team Artemis will be to launch satellites built and operated by Surrey Satellite Technology and other companies, with the first launch planned as soon as late 2020.
Goonhilly and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. plan to launch the Pathfinder mission in 2022 or 2023.