by David Todd | Feb 8, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Seradata News
At a press conference marking the opening of its new new headquarters in Forres in Scotland, start-up launch UK-based launch provider Orbex both revealed an engineering prototype its new upper stage of its new two-stage Prime launch vehicle and announced that small...
by David Todd | Nov 26, 2018 | exploration, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
The Airbus DS subsidiary, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) which specialises in the manufacture of small satellites, has announced that it is designing a low cost 35kg lunar communications satellite mission called DoT-4. Targeted for a 2021 launch to the...
by David Todd | Sep 19, 2018 | Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
The University of Surrey/SSTL-built RemoveDebris spacecraft demonstrator satellite made an ejection of a 2U cubesat called Debrisat 1 to mimic debris at 2306 GMT on 16 September. It then fired an untethered net to successfully snag the tumbling Debrisat 1. In this...
by David Todd | Sep 17, 2018 | China, Launches, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
The small satellite manufacturing subsidiary of Airbus Defence and Space, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), celebrated the successful launch of two satellites, NovaSAR-1, a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite able to image the earth at night or through...
by Matt Wilson | Aug 16, 2018 | commercial launch services, India, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
On 16 August, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) of the United Kingdom signed an agreement with Antrix Corporation – the commercial wing of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) – for a PSLV mission to carry two SSTL-built satellites to Low...
