An overview of our DarkCarb Mid-Wave Infrared satellite, and a quick peek at the DarkCarb imager in manufacture at SSTL.
A one minute overview of our optical Carbonite satellite - the world's first 1m GSD HD colour video satellite
Overview of our technology demonstration small satellite CARBONITE-2 and a selection of full colour HD videos acquired by the satellite from orbit.
SSTL's Martin Unwin presents on SSTL's proposed HydroGNSS mission for the International Astronautical Congress 2020. The HydroGNSS mission comprises of two 40kg satellites that collect data continually in near-polar orbits, taking hydrological measurements over the whole globe.
One minute video of our Hands-On Know-How Transfer Programmes for Customers.
Drone Aerial tour of our HQ and Assembly, Integration and Test facility in Guildford, UK
RemoveDEBRIS was launched in 2018 and successfully demonstrated technologies for removal of space debris including firing a net and a harpoon.
RemoveDEBRIS, a small satellite mission designed to test space debris removal technologies, successfully completed a harpoon test firing on 8th February 2019. This video shows the test in both real-time and in slow motion
An Active Debris Removal technology demonstration mission from mission partners Airbus, ArianeGroup, CSEM, Inria, ISIS, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd, Surrey Space Centre, and Stellenbosch University.
SSTL's Steve Ross explains how SSTL's next generation data recorder reduces power, volume and mass for fast flight and bespoke missions.
A quick insight into our Optical Payload engineers working on a range of imagers for SSTL's small satellites in 2020.
A quick look at the development and test of our low cost Water Resistojet propulsion system based on a heritage thruster design and targeting performance levels of a hydrazine system.
An overivew of the SSTL Core - a Centralised and compact avionics solution integrating SSTL's flight proven avionics into a single compact module.
Making Leaders: Sir Martin Sweeting interviewed by SSPI's Robert Bell
An overview of our innovative approach to small satellite engineering.
Video of the Earth captured from Low Earth Orbit by a commercial grade Raspberry Pi camera and computer on board SSTL's Demonstration of Technology satellite called DoT-1, launched in July 2019. The video captures an area of Europe that includes the coasts of France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany with Denmark visible to the right and the UK obscured by heavy cloud cover to the left.
NovaSAR-1 was launched in 2018 and delivers Earth observation Synthetic Aperture Radar imagery, day and night and through cloud cover. NovaSAR data partners include the UK Space Agency, CSIRO (Australia), ISRO (India) and DOST-ASTI (the Philippines).
Video showing the construction of the platform for EUTELSAT QUANTUM, the world's first reconfigurable geostationary telecommunications satellite. The platform consists of a central thrust tube which houses the bipropellent chemical propulsion system, GEO momentum wheels and gyro to maintain the satellite on station and in a stable attitude throughout its orbital lifetime.
Assembly and integration at Surrey's Guildford facilities of three one metre resolution earth observation satellites for the DMC3/TripleSat Constellation.
This video video was taken in-orbit on 8 July 2014 using an inspection camera on-board ourTechDemoSat-1 satellite, starting about 30 seconds after separation from the launcher. At 6 seconds the Sun appears at the top of the frame as a very bright white flare, before the rotation of the satellite reveals a view of Earth below, of the Pacific Ocean south of French Polynesia. At 25 seconds, the Fregat upper stage of the Soyuz-2 launch vehicle appears as a gold object passing left to right at a distance of approx 60 metres. At 34 seconds a white dot crosses the frame left to right - this is almost certainly one of the other satellites that shared the ride into orbit with TechDemoSat-1.
Video taken in orbit by a small inspection camera on board TechDemoSat-1 (June 2017). The camera is trained on the Antenna Pointing Mechanism, and also captures views of the Earth - this footage shows Greenland, travelling south to Baffin Bay.