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Tuesday, July 12th, 2016

SSTL and Goonhilly Announce Partnership and a Call for Lunar Orbit Payloads

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd and Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd (GES) have today announced a new partnership to go beyond Earth’s orbit and provide a new model of low cost, high value, space exploration and science.  With the ultimate aim of supporting a Solar System network, the SSTL-GES Lunar Pathfinder mission and its successors will provide

Monday, December 28th, 2015

10 Productive Years in Orbit for GIOVE-A, Galileo’s Small Satellite Pathfinder

British small satellite manufacturer Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) is today marking the 10th year of in-orbit operations from its GIOVE-A satellite, the pathfinder mission for Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation programme. Since retirement from its original mission for the European Space Agency, SSTL has operated the spacecraft at 23,300km where it provides valuable data about the

Wednesday, September 16th, 2015

SSTL’s DMC3 Constellation Demonstrates 1-Metre Capability

September 16, 2015 — The first 1-metre high resolution optical satellite imagery from the DMC3/TripleSat Constellation satellites has been released today. This follows the successful launch of the three Earth Observation mini-satellites on an Indian PSLV in July and in-orbit commissioning and calibration by engineers from Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL).