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Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL)

GB
commercialFounded 1985
Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom
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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.

NARRATIVE GROWTH10/9/2023SSTL joins forces with the Air and Space Institute

Telesat’s first operational demonstrator, LEO 1, was built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. and launched in January 2018.

NARRATIVE GENERAL5/30/2023Telesat orders prototype satellite to continue LEO broadband tests

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.

ORG RELATIONSHIP8/26/2022Space Norway to build radar satellite for real time maritime surveillance

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.

ORG RELATIONSHIP12/17/2021Satellite Vu orders first satellite from SSTL

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

NARRATIVE GROWTH9/16/2021ESA to be anchor customer on commercial lunar satellite

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.

NARRATIVE GENERAL7/18/2019U.K. deepens space ties with U.S., announces investments in small satellites, responsive launch

Goonhilly and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. plan to launch the Pathfinder mission in 2022 or 2023.

NARRATIVE GROWTH5/16/2018Billionaire invests in British company planning deep space communications network