Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) pioneers new satellite technologies, products, and services and shares its know-how to enable advancement in space. SSTL, with 40+ years in operation, has 14 satellites currently operated from their spacecraft operations centre, 70+ launches, 35+ long-duration SSTL satellites operating in orbit (years), 12 payloads and 8 satellites in manufacture, and 500+ SSTL satellite years in orbit covering LEO, MEO, GEO and beyond, along with 7 constellations.
The lightest SSTL spacecraft, STRAND-1, weighs 3.5 kg and the heaviest SSTL spacecraft, Eutelsat Quantum weighs 3500 kg. Their End-to-End capability of designing, building, testing, launching and operating is spread over 2 sites in the UK. They are data fusion experts of EO, AIS, SAR, LUNAR COMMS, LEO COMMS, GNSS and real-time video capture.
Some of their products and services are:
SATELLITE PLATFORMS
SSTL-CUBE: Entry-level platform for training missions and suitable for range of payloads including Earth imaging, software defined radio, small LEO telecoms, technology demonstration, radiation monitoring, AIS
SSTL-MICRO: Outstanding payload resources and capability and Suitable for a range of payloads including Earth imaging, software defined radio, science and atmospheric observation, LEO Telecoms, technology demonstration, radiation monitoring, AIS.
SSTL-MINI: A customisable platform built on strong heritage foundations and the structure is bespoke depending on the mission and payload requirements with a wide range of flight-proven options.
EARTH OBSERVATION CAPABILITIES
- Carbonite-High Resolution Optical
- DarkCarb-Medium Wave Infra Red
- CarbSAR-X-band Radar
- TrueColour-Wide swath super-spectral
- Precision-High Resolution Optical
- NovaSAR-S-Band Radar
IoT SPACECRAFT
- Heritage: VESTA, DoT-1
- Data collection
- Remote control
- M2M communications
- Private IoT network
- Habitat monitoring and asset tracking
BIU (Bring Into Use) SPACECRAFT
- Heritage: Telesat LEO Phase 1
- High LEO orbit
- Up to 500m/s delta vee
- De-orbit: IADC-02-01 compliant
- 20-200kg
Apart from these, there are many other services like lunar mission services, navigation & GNSS-R, space services and sub-systems.
