type subsidiary industry aerospace founded guildford surrey uk 1985 headquarters guildford surrey key people professor sir martin sweeting group executive chairman patrick wood ceo from 1 april 2015 products satellites and related services revenue 2.6 m on 92m sales for fy 2011 . 1 30m turnover 1.5 m pre tax profit were expected for fy 2006 . 2 number of employees 450 slogan changing the economics of space 2003 6 affordable access to space website www.sstl.co.uk surrey satellite technology ltd or sstl is a spin off company of the university of surrey now majority owned by airbus defence and space that builds and operates small satellites . its satellites began as amateur radio satellites known by the uosat university of surrey satellite name or by an oscar orbital satellite carrying amateur radio designation . sstl cooperates with the university s surrey space centre which does research into satellite and space topics . sstl moved into remote sensing services with the launch of the disaster monitoring constellation dmc in 2002 and an associated child company dmc international imaging . sstl also adopted the internet protocol for the dmc satellites it builds and operates migrating from use of the ax .25 protocol popular in amateur radio . the cleo cisco router in low earth orbit on board the uk dmc satellite along with a network of payloads takes advantage of this adoption of the internet protocol . sstl has also developed a new geostationary minisatellite platform transfer orbit variant gmp t aimed at the telecommunications market under the brand name sstl 900 . in 2010 and 2012 sstl was awarded contracts to supply 22 navigation payloads 3 for europe s galileo space navigation system . the university sold a 10 % share of sstl to spacex in january 2005 . it then agreed to sell its majority share roughly 80 % of the capital to eads astrium in april 2008 . 4 in august 2008 sstl opened a us subsidiary . 5 sstl was awarded the queen s award for technological achievement in 1998 and the queen s awards for enterprise in 2005 . in 2006 sstl won the times higher education supplement award for outstanding contribution to innovation and technology . 6 in 2009 sstl ranked 89 out of the 997 companies that took part in the sunday times top 100 companies to work for . 7 contents 1 recent satellites and launches 2 satellites under construction 2.1 novasar part funded by uk government sar payload supplied by airbus defence & space 2.2 eutelsat quantum 11 small geostationary platform 2.3 kazstsat 12 2.4 vesta 13 2.5 telesat leo prototype 14 2.6 removedebris 15 2.7 earthcare 16 2.8 cosmic 2 formosat 7 18 3 platforms 3.1 sstl 300 3.2 gmp t 20 3.3 gmp a 21 3.4 gmp e 22 4 see also 5 references 6 external links recent satellites and launches edit lmonosov 8 triplesat a constellation of 3 earth observation satellites 1m resolution techdemosat 1 kazeosat 2 five rapideye satellites successfully launched from baikonur on 29 august 2008 . uk dmc 2 and deimos 1 were launched on a dnepr rocket from the baikonur cosmodrome on 29 july 2009 . nigeriasat 2 and nx satellites successfully launched on 17 august 2011 . exactview 1 successfully launched on 22 july 2012 on a soyuz rocket from the baikonur cosmodrome . sapphire customer macdonald dettwiler & associates mda mission objective to provide a satellite based resident space object rso observing service that will provide accurate tracking data on deep space orbiting objects . sapphire is the canadian department of national defence s first dedicated operational military satellite . its space based electro optical sensor will track man made space objects in earth orbits between 6000 and 40 000 km as part of canada s continued support of space situational awareness and the u.s. space surveillance network by updating the u.s. satellite catalogue that is used by both norad and canada . 9 satellite platform sstl 150 strand 1 10 surrey training research and nanosatellite development 1 launched in 2013 flies several new technologies for space applications and demonstration including the use of android operating system open source operating system on a smartphone . satellites under construction edit novasar part funded by uk government sar payload supplied by airbus defence & space edit mission objective s band synthetic aperture radar eutelsat quantum 11 small geostationary platform edit customer airbus defence and space kazstsat 12 edit customer ghalam llp kazahstan mission medium resolution earth observation and space development training vesta 13 edit customer honeywell mission a technology demonstration mission that will test a new two way vhf data exchange system vdes payload for the exactearth advanced maritime satellite constellation . telesat leo prototype 14 edit customer telesat mission small low earth orbit leo prototype satellite as part of a test and validation phase for an advanced global leo satellite constellation . removedebris 15 edit customer university of surrey mission active debris removal adr technology demonstrations e.g capture deorbiting representative of an operational scenario during a low cost mission using novel key technologies for adr . earthcare 16 edit customer astrium gmbh now airbus defence and space mission objective as part of the earth observation envelope programme eoep led by esa to cover primary research objectives the earthcare mission will be the third earth explorer core mission . the mission will be implemented in collaboration with japan aerospace exploration agency who will provide one of the core instruments . the earthcare mission has been specifically defined with the basic objective of improving the understanding of cloud aerosol radiation interactions so as to include them correctly and reliably in climate and numerical weather prediction models . earthcare will meet these objectives by measuring simultaneously the vertical structure and horizontal distribution of cloud and aerosol fields together with outgoing radiation over all climate zones . sstl s role in this mission is to provide a multi spectral imager msi instrument by development manufacturing testing and operations support during phase b c d e1 . 17 cosmic 2 formosat 7 18 edit customer national space organization taiwan mission objective atmospheric limb sounding by gnss radio occultation ionospheric research ; follow on mission to cosmic formosat 3 . platforms edit sstl 100 sstl 100 was used in disaster monitoring constellation dmc . the sstl 100 provides the core capability to carry a wide range of payloads . active variants include sstl 100i 32 1st generation dmc and sstl 100i 22 2nd generation dmc . citation needed surrey is developing a satellite bus optimized to the design of launcherone under development by virgin galactic 19 sstl 150 an sstl 100 platform with substantially improved payload capacity improved propulsion and added high attitude agility . active variants include sstl 150i 4 agile beijing 1 sstl 150i 2.5 agile and sstl 150 rapideye . citation needed model of a sstl 300 satellite sstl 300 edit sstl 300 was designed for highly demanding applications . very flexible configuration capable of supporting a large spectrum of implementations payloads and structural configurations . current variants are optimised for optical eo from 2.5 m to sub 1m resolutions sar and science eo payloads . active variants include sstl 300i 2.5 agile sstl 300i 1.0 agile sstl 300i uhr sstl 300l and sstl 300r . citation needed gmp t 20 edit low cost transfer variant geostationary satellite platform . gmp a 21 edit adaptor upper stage geostationary satellite platform gmp e 22 edit externally load bearing structure geostationary satellite platform see also edit aerospace industry in the united kingdom comparison of satellite buses uosat 1 uosat 2 uosat 3 uosat 4 uosat 5 uosat 12 uk dmc uk dmc 2 uk dmc 3 deimos 1 snap 1 nanosatellite fasat alfa and bravo references edit sstl revenues and profit down sharply peter de selding space news 15 february 2007 . how to build space satellites out of ipods malcolm moore and roger highfield daily telegraph 29 december 2005 . bbc news online . eads astrium signs an agreement to acquire surrey satellite technology limited from the university of surrey press release 7 april 2008 . surrey satellite technology us opens for business sstl press release 5 august 2008 . sstl wins times higher award 16 november 2006 . sstl earn sunday times award sstl space blog 17 march 2009 . lomonosov mission page from sstl . retrieved 1 september 2016 . sstl s 40th satellite platform launch sapphire reaches orbit spacedaily.com 26 february 2013 strand 1 smartphone nanosatellite . retrieved 2 may 2014 . space news . sstl website . satellite today . telesat website . the guardian . earthcare pdf . retrieved 2 may 2014 . http www.sstl.co.uk missions current projects formosat 7 mission page from sstl . retrieved 2 may 2014 . virgin galactic relaunches its smallsat launch business . 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