January 2020
Satellite-based IoT - the race is on
...have its constellation-as-a-service grow to 72 nanosatellites in orbit by the end of 2023. A 16 kg Target satellite built in the UK by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd for Astroscale’s End-of-Life Services demonstration (ELSA-d) mission due for launch...
October 2021
Congested, contested... under-regulated and unplanned
... in orbital congestion, simply as a result of the increased number of satellites. But that is only part of the story: it’s also an issue... the UK Ministry of Defence and 14 years with Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL). During his time with the...
February 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
... - Beijing 1 [2005] and the TrippleSat constellation Beijing 2 [2015] - was commercially built for China by Surrey Satellite Technology in the UK. Noteworthy, is that the imaging capacity of Beijing 2 was 100 percent leased by a Singapore based...
October 2017
Tracking air pollution and monitoring climate change
...for applied scientific research (TNO)as major partners. ESA is responsible for the SWIR channel instrument (led by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd), Instrument Control Unit (RUAG Sweden), Radiant Cooler and Telescope Support Structure (Airbus Defence...
November 2018
Purpose, promise and power – video from space
... that customers increasingly require. The Earth-i constellation - named Vivid-i, with satellites built by Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) - already has a prototype satellite in orbit after the successful launch of VividX2 (also known...
February 2020
Preserving our space heritage
... heritage in some kind of space museum? Save our satellites Scientific satellites such as the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have contributed...Ministry of Defence, and 14 years with Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL). During his time with the ...
