by David Todd | Mar 30, 2021 | ESA, Satellites, Science
ESA has selected SSTL to build and operate a 40 kg spacecraft for its HydroGNSS mission under its Scout programme. The €30 million HydroGNSS mission uses GNSS Reflectometry for hydrological measurements. In effect it uses signals from GPS and Galileo, as radar...
by David Todd | Jul 19, 2019 | Military space, Satellites, Seradata News
While its Team Artemis name may be confusing given that NASA is calling its next human moon-landing programme Artemis, nevertheless, under this banner the UK Ministry of Defence – in the shape of its Secretary of State, Penny Mordaunt, has announced the...
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, Scotland, start-up launch provider Orbex revealed an engineering prototype of the new upper stage of its two-stage Prime launch vehicle. It also announced that the small satellite...
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...
