{"id":8706,"date":"2023-04-17T18:15:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T10:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/surrey-building-world-leading-small-satellites-for-40-years\/"},"modified":"2023-04-17T18:15:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T10:15:16","slug":"surrey-building-world-leading-small-satellites-for-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/surrey-building-world-leading-small-satellites-for-40-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey Building World-Leading Small Satellites for 40+ Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/Surrey700_638170559731486399.png\" width=\"712\" height=\"377\" alt=\"Surrey Building World-Leading Small Satellites for 40+ Years\" class=\"imageload removeImageattr\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/Surrey700_638170559731486399.png\" style=\"\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/Surrey700_638170559731486399.png\"><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"712\"><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"377\"><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some of their products and services are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>SATELLITE PLATFORMS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>SSTL-CUBE:<\/em><\/strong> 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<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>SSTL-MICRO:<\/em><\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>SSTL-MINI:<\/em><\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable\" contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"true\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6VHQMgose4o?&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"fr-draggable\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>EARTH OBSERVATION CAPABILITIES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: circle;\">\n<li>Carbonite-High Resolution Optical<\/li>\n<li>DarkCarb-Medium Wave Infra Red<\/li>\n<li>CarbSAR-X-band Radar<\/li>\n<li>TrueColour-Wide swath super-spectral<\/li>\n<li>Precision-High Resolution Optical<\/li>\n<li>NovaSAR-S-Band Radar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>IoT SPACECRAFT<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Heritage: VESTA, DoT-1<\/li>\n<li>Data collection<\/li>\n<li>Remote control<\/li>\n<li>M2M communications<\/li>\n<li>Private IoT network<\/li>\n<li>Habitat monitoring and asset tracking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>BIU (Bring Into Use) SPACECRAFT<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Heritage: Telesat LEO Phase 1<\/li>\n<li>High LEO orbit<\/li>\n<li>Up to 500m\/s delta vee<\/li>\n<li>De-orbit: IADC-02-01 compliant<\/li>\n<li>20-200kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Apart from these, there are many other services like lunar mission services, navigation &amp; GNSS-R, space services and sub-systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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+ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[44,51,38,20],"class_list":["post-8706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gnss","tag-iot","tag-leo","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}