Surrey Satellite Technology
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| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Aerospace |
| Founded | Guildford, Surrey, UK (1985) |
| Headquarters | Guildford, Surrey |
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Key people
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Professor Sir Martin Sweeting, Group Executive Chairman |
| Products | Satellites and related services |
| Revenue | £2.6m on £92m sales for FY 2011. £30m turnover, £1.5m pre-tax profit were expected for FY 2006. |
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Number of employees
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450 |
| Website | www.sstl.co.uk |
Professor Sir Martin Sweeting, Group Executive Chairman
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 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 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. In August 2008 SSTL opened a US subsidiary.
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