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Small Satellites - Big Future

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  • Tuesday, 19 January 2010
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  • Duration: 1 hr 5 mins
  • Publication date: 19 Jan 2010
  • Location: IETTV_Room, IETTV_Venue, London, United Kingdom
  • Part of series The Appleton Lecture Series, IET Prestige Lecture Series and Part of event Appleton Lecture 2010

About the session

Since the early 1980s, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) has pioneered the development of small satellites, commonly named "microsatellites".  SSTL has designed, built and launched over 30 of these microsatellites and, through this work, SSTL is "changing the economics of space".

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